Alexander Klicznik concentrates on patent law, in particular infringement actions, oppositions and nullity actions. Being qualified both as a lawyer and an European Patent Attorney, Alexander focuses on matters of high technical complexity in the areas of telecommunications, mobile communications (also relating to LTE, UMTS, GSM/GPRS), data compression, pharmaceuticals, chemistry, biotech, solid state physics, computer hard and software, optical devices, and general mechanics. He regularly represents clients before patent infringement venues in Dusseldorf, Munich and Mannheim, before the Federal Patent Court, the European Patent Office and the Federal Supreme Court. In addition, Alexander handles FTO reports and analyzes patent portfolios also encompassing several jurisdictions.
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Andreas Bothe has 25 years experience as an IP litigator. As an authority in intellectual property law he puts a particular emphasis on trademark as well as unfair competition law, copyrights, designs and domain names. As leading litigator in adversarial proceedings, Andreas is a fighter. However, often his open and direct approach and his pleasant manners help him to win trademark trials. He is renowned for his outstanding negotiating skills. You will not find a reference book in which he is not highly recommended
National and international companies in the pharma, biotech and medical devices sector entrust Arne Thiermann with commercial contracts of strategic relevance as well as regulatory and compliance issues. Arne can assist you with his extensive experience in the drafting and negotiation of complex contracts in the life sciences sector. With a background in intellectual property law, Arne regularly handles licensing and development transactions in all stages of drug or device development. He further provides advice on strategic supply and manufacturing arrangements and helps you setting up R&D, marketing and distribution collaborations. You may also seek Arne's advice on regulatory issues in the context of researching, developing, marketing and distributing pharmaceutical products and medical devices.
Benjamin has proven to be a creative IP litigator who thinks "out of the box" to create solutions for his clients which make a difference in practice. In the first years of his professional career, he developed an entirely new approach on how to litigate product piracy cases for brand owners. This approach, which was later adopted by the German Federal Supreme Court in the so-called "CONVERSE I" decision, strongly facilitated his client's fight against counterfeit products.
Bernd Klemm concentrates on pension law. He has spent six months in the firm's London office in the Pension Department in 2001 in order to gain international experience in the occupational pensions’ area.Bernd is one of the most highly recognised lawyers for pension law in Germany and built up a pension practice in Germany long before most of our competitors even thought about establishing pension teams.
Since the beginning of his career, Christoph has been advising clients with a focus on German and European antitrust, competition and merger control law. Christoph is the professional for all competition related aspects of your business. He handles all competition aspects of transactions and advises on commercial agreements and compliance issues. He regularly represents his clients before competition authorities (EU Commission, Federal Cartel Office) and courts.
Clemens Plassmann is a leader in intellectual property matters with a focus on technical IP rights (patents and utility models).Clemens conducted numerous patent infringement lawsuits before the German civil courts and worked on parallel validity proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the German Federal Patent Court, the German Federal Supreme Court and the European Patent Office. He has a great deal of experience in coordinating multi-jurisdictional patent disputes (including arbitrations) in Europe. Clemens is also active in client counselling as regards licensing, transactional IP and the law of employees' inventions. He increasingly advises on strategic issues related to the upcoming system of the Unified Patent Court in Europe.
For the most complex B2B disputes, senior litigator Detlef Hass will bring specific experience to the table. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the German market, Detlef and his team have developed best practice over the years how to approach high profile commercial conflicts with clients, judges and other parties involved.
For more than 20 years, Franz-Josef Schöne has successfully advised clients on various industry sectors from all over the world with respect to M&A transactions in Germany and abroad. He particularly focuses on advising M&A transactions in strongly regulated industries. With respect to such transactions, e.g. in the energy, health-care, waste and water sector as well as in the infrastructure sector (e.g. airports, seaports), Franz-Josef is able to deploy his personal strengths for the benefit of his clients. Furthermore, he has unique experiences in the area of the financial market stabilization.
Heiko Gemmel focuses on all tax aspects of financing structures, portfolio transactions, equity and debt capital market transactions, M&A and real estate transactions as well as group restructurings, in particular in a cross-border context. He also advises on all tax aspects He regularly advises clients from the financial industry sector (banks, winding-up agencies, insurance companies and funds) and has a broad experience in leading and coordinating an international tax team on large and complex cross-border transactions. Heiko joined the firm in 2003 and is qualified as a lawyer and as a certified tax advisor (Steuerberater).of the structuring of alternative investment funds and on associated regulatory issues.
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Hendrik Kornbichler is an employment lawyer with more than 15 years of experience in advising on all relevant individual and collective employment matters. During the past years, he in particular provided advice in complex company restructuring projects. His work covers drafting and negotiating agreements with works councils and unions required in cost reduction programs, including framework agreements, social compensation plans, settlements of interest, various further works council agreements and collective bargaining agreements.
Henrik Lehment advises on all aspects of intellectual property rights with a particular focus on patent law. He regularly represents clients in litigation and is very experienced in coordinating cross-border actions. Henrik is particularly active in the field of telecommunications and consumer electronics and in the automotive sector.
Known for being one of the top German real estate lawyers for many years, Dr. Hinrich Thieme has broad experience in commercial real estate law. He focuses on real estate transactions including sale and lease back transactions, international joint ventures, project development, and real estate financing for more than 20 years. He is a German attorney at law (Rechtsanwalt) and is also appointed as a civil law notary (Notar). He works for well-known national and international institutional and private investors, banks, real estate developers, and public authorities.
Ina Brock advises clients on how to stay in control of the most complex cross border litigation and crisis communication matters. She has successfully defended her clients in more than 500 German court cases on all levels. She has won cases in the German Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice. Additionally, Ina has navigated clients through the coordination of more than 60,000 claims in class actions and group litigation cases in more than 30 countries worldwide.
Advising on unexplored new or difficult tax and accounting cases, like on the first toll-based highway infrastructure model, is what makes Ingmar Dörr love his job. As head of the Munich tax and accounting practice he and his team will be the perfect fit for your tax transactional activities. Ingmar can be a life-saver too – a lot of managing directors were taken out of the firing line with his help in self-disclosure and tax compliance (litigation, internal investigations, audits) proceedings.
Ingo Kühl focuses on litigation, corporate and commercial matters, and liability law. He has extensive experience in litigating and arbitrating corporate and product liability matters, including class actions and mass tort litigation. He presents international and national clients in and out of court and is experienced in coordinating parallel litigation proceedings in numerous jurisdictions worldwide.
German employment law shows bias for employees. To balance this, employers need sophisticated advice. This has motivated Ingrid Ohmann-Sauer for 25 years to help employers reach their business goals. U.S. organizations in particular have relied on her for an efficient navigation through German employment regulations. Many important business decisions and projects require works council consent prior to their implementation; Ingrid is a sophisticated strategist and a determined negotiator. She has used these skills so that her clients could make "precision landings" of their various human resources (HR) projects and transactions. Businesses need people who work for them – as managers, employees, free-lancers, or leased workforce. The relationship of companies with all these persons is heavily regulated by German law and this makes many daily HR matters, the restructuring of businesses and corporate transactions a challenge. Ingrid helps business organizations to find cost-efficient ways through the pitfalls of German employment law and so achieve their demanding business goals.
Inken Knief represents clients in international and domestic arbitration proceedings. She has extensive experience in handling complex disputes and arbitrations, both ad hoc and before most major arbitral institutions (including International Chamber of Commerce, German Arbitration Institute, Swiss Chambers' Arbitration Institution, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Vienna International Arbitral Centre, and Permanent Court of Arbitration), governed by a variety of substantive and procedural laws, and seated anywhere in the world. She also frequently serves as arbitrator. Inken's practice has a particular focus on life sciences, the aerospace and defense sector, as well as post mergers & acquisitions disputes. One of Inken's particular strengths lies in her eagerness to understand the details of any technical issues involved in her cases, in order to be able to discuss those at eye level with her clients, experts and arbitral tribunals.
If you work in the pharma, medical devices or biotech sector, it is Jörg Schickert who will be solving all your most complicated regulatory, commercial and compliance issues – for both Germany and all of Europe. His long-standing experience in dealing with German and European pharmaceutical and devices law means that he can circumspectly navigate you through all your reimbursement or pricing and reimbursement challenges. He will also aid you in drafting commercial/licensing contracts. Furthermore, you may turn to him with any most delicate criminal and compliance cases which your company might face. Jörg is very practical and always offers business-oriented solutions. He takes his industry knowledge from 15 years' experience in working hand-in-hand with many major and reputed life sciences companies.
Julian Fischer has extensive experience in debt portfolio sale transactions, both on sell-side as well as buy-side. He also advises banks, financial institutions and other financial service providers on securitisations and other refinancing transactions as well as on the structuring of underlying portfolios such as credit, mezzanine and bonus share portfolios. He has several years of experience in financial restructuring, in particular in the context of financial market stabilization measures, and the transfer of credit and derivatives portfolios.
Jürgen Johannes Witte has the broad experience and sharp legal skills that are essential to resolve complex legal disputes, whether in or out of court, and delivering clear and feasible solutions to clients.In his more than 20 years of experience, Jürgen has built deep expertise in directors and officers liability cases, insurance disputes, banking litigation and construction and engineering disputes. He has also conducted numerous internal investigations and has guided clients through difficult disputes in various industries.
Katlen Blöcker is a well-established and experienced banking and finance lawyer focusing on finance transactions. Her areas of expertise include corporate loans, acquisition finance, real estate finance, export finance and financial restructurings. She has been advising her clients – banks, debt funds, private equity houses, corporates, insurance companies and investors – on a significant number of outstanding finance transactions. Her international work experience and multi-jurisdictional transactions make her a frequently asked lawyer for cross-border financings.
With trial experience of more than 20 years, Leopold von Gerlach is a wholehearted and extremely versatile litigator. Protecting his clients' brands, technologies and designs against any type of theft, imitation, exploitation or other type of infringement is his main strength. He has gained a particular reputation for his uncompromising persecution of counterfeits, parallel imports and grey market goods. His long-standing ties with public prosecutors, customs authorities and internet and financial service providers give his investigations an edge that competitors find hard to match.
Martin Günther advises national and international clients with regards to all aspects of financing, acquisition, development, disposal, management, leasing and in the area of real estate funds. Furthermore, he concentrates on real estate issues related to insolvency and distressed situations and in real estate M&A.
Martin Fähndrich focuses on patent litigation and has successfully run more than a hundred cases before the German infringement courts in Dusseldorf, Mannheim and Munich. Martin particularly focuses on representing his clients in opposition proceedings at the European Patent Office and in nullity actions at the German patent court (Bundespatentgericht). Martin has significant experience in the FRAND defense. He has run with numerous multi-jurisdictional matters and is familiar with setting up cross-border litigation strategies. He has a significant track record in negotiating and drafting licensing agreements and settlements.
With a solid reputation in the market as a solution-oriented and pragmatic adviser and a fair negotiating partner, Norbert Heier advises on all issues of real estate law. He is mainly active in the areas of project development and real estate transactions. Norbert has an excellent national and international network of contacts inside and outside our firm. Residential, office or special properties such as nursing homes, sports facilities of all sizes or shopping centres, are some of the fields Norbert has distinguished experience and a wealth of knowledge in.
Peter Maier focuses on retail structured products (certificates, leveraged products and notes) linked to many different asset classes where he has extensive transaction experience. Peter also advises clients on regulatory issues in connection with the distribution of structured products (e.g. PRIIPs KIDs), debt issuance programs and other types of derivatives.
Richard Reimer advises German and international banks and financial institutions on all aspects of banking regulation and compliance, with a particular focus on payments and e-money law. Furthermore, Richard advises on regulatory aspects of M&A transactions involving banks and financial institutions (e.g. ownership control proceedings). He has dealt with major portfolio transactions of the firm involving bad banks. He is part of the investment fund team and contributes to all regulatory aspects in structuring investments (UCITS and AIF) in Germany. Richard leads a team which primarily advises on banking license proceedings, own funds requirements and compliance projects including whistleblowing systems, anti-money laundering compliance and financial sanctions.
Sebastian Lach handles compliance and investigation issues, as well as complex product safety and liability cases. In the field of compliance and investigations, Sebastian has advised various clients on the creation of global compliance systems. He has successfully advised on criminal matters (e.g. bribery, fraud, embezzlement) and internal investigations relating to more than 50 countries worldwide, including FCPA, SEC/DOJ implications. Throughout his career, he has handled more than 20 multi-jurisdictional investigations, most of them for Fortune 500 and DAX 30 clients.
Stefanie Kern advises you on real estate and M&A transactions as well as real estate financing. International and national banks, funds as well as institutional investors in particular entrust her with their single and portfolio transactions and seek her advice on the debt financing of real estate. In addition, Stefanie focuses and advises on commercial lease law.
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Admired by his peers for his strategic thinking, Ulrich Helm focuses on the systematic preparation and execution of complex disputes and litigation. Whether you need advice on delay in delivery, building defects, mechanical failure or other project-related disputes, with more than twenty years of experience Ulrich Helm should be your first point of contact. He has unrivalled industry know-how in areas such as offshore wind farms, oil and gas, electricity, geothermal energy, tunnelling and mechanical engineering. Ulrich is aware of the specific nature and pitfalls of the particular industries.