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Holger Alt’s work focuses on the defence and enforcement of intellectual property rights (trademarks, company names, design rights). He manages a large number of international trademark portfolios from various industries and advises his clients on the development of national and international trademark strategies as well as cross-border disputes. Holger Alt has many years of experience in the development of contractual licensing and distribution models and advises on all contract law is...

Henrik Armah is a shareholder in the M&A/Corporate group of Greenberg Traurig's German office. He advises international and domestic clients on M&A transactions, joint ventures, corporate transformations and on all general matters of corporate law. He specializes in cross border transactions (buy side and sell side). His clients include industry players as well as private equity, venture capital and strategic investors. Henrik is an expert with particular experience in the technology,...

Uwe Bärenz is a partner at POELLATH in Berlin. He focuses on private investment funds, GP and investors advice. He is predominantly engaged in private equity funds, including cross-border work, mainly Luxembourg, tax and regulatory issues, filings, terms and conditions, private and public placements, investors' needs (pension funds, insurance companies, investment funds, fund of funds, private clients), complex secondary transactions. He is one of the most experienced advisors for the es...

Dr Thomas Barthel is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT‘s Berlin office and member of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. He advises and represents national and international companies from various industries on all aspects of individual and collective labour law as well as social security law. He focuses on restructurings and collective bargaining negotiations. He also renders advice on labour law aspects of corporate transactions and assists with proceedings before conciliation b...

Wencke Bäsler advises real estate companies on all aspects of real estate transactions, including asset deals, share deals and the management of real estate properties. She also advises on corporate investments and participations, in particular joint ventures. Wencke has broad experience in advising national and international real estate investors, and has wide-ranging experience in handling the sale and acquisition of real estate portfolios, including structuring and financing. Another ...

Toralf Baumann is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Berlin office and member of the Corporate / M&A practice group. His area of expertise comprises energy and procurement law. He advises his national and international clients from the energy industry and other industrial sectors particularly on energy law issues, including the law on concession agreements and levies, renewable energy law and legal issues surrounding heat supply. Moreover, he is an experienced litigator.

Antje Baumbach is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Berlin office and member of the Corporate / M&A practice group. Her area of expertise comprises advice on energy law and the energy industry. She advises her clients with a particular focus on energy law, including regulatory issues, as well as antitrust and competition law. She also has extensive experience in contract law and the law on standard terms and conditions. She represents our clients' interests in contract negotiations, before re...

Jörg Beckmann studied law at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen, where he received his doctorate from the chair of Prof. Dr. Andreas Sattler. He completed his legal clerkship in 2001 at the Kammergericht. In the years that followed, Jörg Beckmann worked for two Berlin law firms that were well-known in the market. There he specialized in public building law and public zoning law. A particular focus of Jörg Beckmanns work is the special urban planning law of the German...

Kati Beckmann is a partner in the German Finance Group with a focus on investment law, acquisition and corporate finance as well as financial restructurings. She advises sponsors and investors on fund formations, investments in and marketing of funds, as well as on regulatory requirements for specific institutional investors. Kati has also a wide-ranging experience in advising clients on the borrower and lender side regarding national and cross-border financing, refinancing transaction and in...

Daniel Benighaus works as Shareholder in the German real estate practice. He advises national and international investors on project developments, real estate transactions and ongoing asset management. One focus of his work is advising on complex project developments such as developments of entire quarters, smart buildings, joint ventures and data centers. He has particular expertise in the sale of project developments in forward deals. Daniel also works as a notary with a focus on real estat...

Viola Bensinger co-chairs the firm's Global Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice and also chairs the Technology Practice as well as the Litigation Practice in Germany. She advises clients from the technology, media, health care and other industries. Within the technology sector, Viola advises international internet, technology and healthcare companies in the areas digitisation projects, IT outsourcing, cloud computing, e-commerce, electronic payment, data protection, software licensing ...

Sara Berendsen advises on corporate transactions of all kinds, including acquisition and sale, joint ventures and restructuring. Sara has broad experience in the field of M&A transactions for national and international clients (asset and share deals) with a focus on the media, technology & telecommunications and real estate sectors. In addition, she advises on capital market issues and joint ventures.

Dr. Elmar Bickert specializes in real estate and construction law including property related energy and environmental law. He has been dealing with the entire life cycle of real estate for many years with a particular focus on project development, financing, planning, construction, modernisation, operation, management, use, as well as the acquisition and sale of property.His expertise covers real estate portfolios consisting of various asset classes and owned by national and international cli...

As a Patent Attorney Thomas L. Bittner focuses on technical intellectual property rights, especially patents and utility models, both with respect to filing and prosecution, as well as litigation. Also, he advises and represents his clients in opposition proceedings and revocation proceedings before the German authorities and courts, and before the European Patent Office. Thomas L. Bittner studied physics at the Humboldt-Universität of Berlin. After his PhD he worked as a scholarship hol...

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Carsten Brachmann is a partner at fellaws, Berlin. He advises private and public employers on individual and collective employment law, especially regarding collective bargaining, works council constitution law, employee representation law and employee leasing. Carsten Brachmann has been a certified specialist for employment law since 2005 with a legal advisory focus on employment law in the areas of public service and M&A. He advises employers on restructuring measures in various industr...

Olga Braeuer is a counsel in the Litigation/Controversy Department, and a member of the International Arbitration Practice Group. She joined the firm in 2010 and focuses on international arbitration and dispute resolution. Ms. Braeuer focuses on international arbitration and dispute resolution. She has represented clients in complex multi-jurisdictional disputes governed by a broad variety of substantive and procedural laws, of both civil and common law jurisdictions. She has acted as counsel...

Guido Brucker is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Berlin office and member of the Corporate / M&A practice group. He advises national and international clients on all issues under energy and regulatory law, energy trade law and renewable energy law. He assists clients with regulatory administrative proceedings and is an experienced litigator.

Ronald Buge is a partner at POELLATH in the private funds team in Berlin. Ronald advises fund managers on legal and tax matters relating to the structuring of alternative investment funds. Further, he advises institutional investors such as insurance companies and pension funds as well as family offices in connection with investments in such funds. He focuses on German and international tax law, including investment tax law, procedural law and tax compliance issues (FATCA, CRS, DAC 6). He is ...

Mathias advises private equity, financial and venture capital investors, as well as corporates and entrepreneurs on their buy-side and sell-side M&A deals, strategic investments, financing rounds and joint ventures.

Niklas Conrad is a partner in the litigation group. His practice ranges from strategic litigation advice and extrajudicial dispute resolution to rights enforcement and the representation of clients in court. Niklas assists national and international clients from all sectors and industries in the resolution of commercial disputes, including post M&A conflicts. He regularly advises clients in cross-border disputes and assists in the enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards. Nikl...

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Partner, Dentons, Berlin, 2017 to date Partner, DLA Piper, Hamburg and Berlin, 2012-2017 Partner, Baker McKenzie, Berlin, 2000-2012 Associate, Baker McKenzie, Frankfurt and Toronto, 1996-2000 Freie Universität Berlin, 1996, Dr. iur. Freie Universität Berlin, 1992, Law School Apprenticeship, Deutsche Bank, Berlin

Martin Dobias advises clients on virtually all aspects of real estate transactions, in both asset and share deals, including complex portfolio transactions. He also has experience in the negotiation of commercial lease agreements. Prior to Greenberg Traurig, Martin worked at Olswang in Berlin.

Christian Donle is active as "classical" barrister and as counsel. He is committed in advising and representing mainly industrial enterprises and numerous medium-sized enterprises in all fields of industrial property (patent law, trademark law, registered designs), in copyright law and in anti-trust and competition law. He focuses on litigation, having rich experience in conducting numerous proceedings and interim injunctions all over Germany. Fighting product piracy on an international level...

Lawyer and Notary Partner

Dr Matthias Durst is a partner and co-head of real estate at POELLATH in Berlin. For many years, he has advised on real estate transactions, real estate private equity and real estate project developments of all kinds, as well as on the conclusion of rental and lease agreements. He also advises on contract law and has accompanied various major portfolio transactions and individual transactions as the leading partner. In addition, he has broad experience in the fields of real estate financing,...

Born in Göttingen in 1966, Dr. Martin Düwel studied law and history in Regensburg, in Aberdeen, UK and at the Free University of Berlin. From 1994 to 1998, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for State Studies, Constitutional and Administrative Law. He has been active as a lawyer in Berlin since 1996. In 1999, he received his doctorate in constitutional law on the subject of of “Oversight Powers of the Federal Constitutional Court in Constitutional Complaints ag...

Christoph Enaux is a partner with Greenberg Traurig Germany. LLP. He chairs the German Telecommunications Sector Group as well as the German Regulatory and Competition Practice Group of Greenberg Traurig. Christoph focuses on advising domestic and international clients in the areas of German and EU telecommunications and media regulation and competition law. He advises on commercial and regulatory aspects of new business models as well as on regulatory, merger control and antitrust proceeding...

Sebastian Engels advises clients in all aspects of trade mark, copyright, and unfair competition law. He works with German and international clients to develop IP strategies both in Germany and abroad. As a special focus of his expertise he is advising and representing E-Commerce and IT-providers amongst others with regard to consumer protection regulations, transactional matters, data protection law, and domain name law. Sebastian Engels studied law at the University of Constance (Germany) a...

Local Partner Holger Faust advises clients on virtually the entire spectrum of employment law. In his consulting practice, he regularly deals with works constitution law issues, including the drafting of works agreements in remuneration matters and on IT systems. Holger Faust has acted on numerous measures of an employer change for national and international companies and negotiated with works councils. A further focus of his work is on issues relating to the deployment of external personnel,...

Dr. Frank Grischa Feitsch works in the Berlin and Munich offices at HEUSSEN. He specializes in consulting and representative services bridging the fields of inheritance, corporate, foundation and tax law. The focal points of his legal work comprise interdisciplinary asset management and business succession planning, the creation of last wills based on succession planning, contracts for the relinquishment of inheritance and statutory shares, corporate agreements and the execution of last wills...

Dr Hardy Fischer is a partner at POELLATH in Berlin. He advises on domestic and international tax law, corporate tax law, tax planning and tax structuring, refinancing and charity tax law. He is also well-known for his wide-ranging expertise in advising on cross-border structures and transactions, as well as for his tax advice on real estate transactions. Hardy regularly speaks and publishes on various tax law matters, inter alia as a lecturer at the University of Potsdam (Master Program Corp...

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Gordon Geiser is a partner with GT Restructuring. His clients include investors as well as companies in distressed situations and their respective management. Gordon Geiser regularly acts as restructuring advisor to his clients to develop and implement restructuring concepts by means of both debtor-in-possession proceedings and regular insolvency proceedings. He also gets appointed as insolvency administrator. When acting for his clients, Gordon Geiser takes on positions in the management of ...

Dr Anna Katharina Gollan, LL.M . is an associated partner at POELLATH in Berlin. She advises on domestic and foreign foundations, charity and donation law, non-profit organizations, impact investing, inheritance disputes and settlements, pre- and postnuptial agreements, last wills, asset and company succession. She covers thus the entire spectrum of foundation and non-profit advisory – from the establishment of foundations to project structuring and investment of assets to advice on dis...

Dr Dominik Greinacher is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Berlin office and a member of the Corporate / M&A practice group. His area of activity comprises advice on energy law and the energy industry. He particularly advises his clients on public energy law issues, including planning law and the law of expropriation, as well as on emission trading matters. He further advises and represents his clients on energy-related state aid law before the EU institutions. Dr Greinacher also provides leg...

Studies in mechanical engineering and process engineering at the RWTH Aachen and the Imperial College London (until 1991) Doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) at the ETH Zürich, Laboratory for Technical Chemistry (1991-95) Consultant (1991-95) in the area of process simulation und dynamics Patent attorney (since 1999), partner at Maikowski & Ninnemann (since 2000) LL.M. (European Intellectual Property Law) at the Kurt-Haertel Institute, Fernuni Hagen Since 2002 lecturer und since 2009 honorary...

Ulrike Grübler focuses on Intellectual Property with an emphasis on Trademark Law, Design Law and Copyright Law was well as Unfair Competition Law. She is an experienced IP litigator and has particular expertise in the development and enforcement of national and international brand strategies as well as the handling of brand portfolios. Ulrike advises brand owners on the full lifecycle of their Intellectual Property rights. This includes strategic advice, availability searches as well as...