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Dr Christof Aha is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT in Frankfurt and a member of the Corporate / M&A practice group. He advises national and international companies on the planned arrangement, structuring and implementation of transactions in the mid and small-cap sector. He also defends the interests of his Clients in transaction-related litigation.
Founder and senior partner of HERMANN Rechtsanwälte Wirtschaftsprüfer Steuerberater. Experienced specialist in restructuring and insolvency matters of all kind. Counsel for many clients, including entrepreneurs an high-profile companies. Mr Bähr specialises in the field of insolvency administration and reorganisation advice. He has been a court-appointed insolvency administrator for 19 years. Within the Rhein/Main area as well as in the East German Federal States and in lower S...
Dr. Markus Bauer advises both German and international clients in connection with national and cross-border corporate acquisitions, the formation and administration of joint ventures, private equity transactions and the structuring and restructuring of corporations and corporate groups. A further focus of his work is on advising management boards, managing directors and supervisory boards of predominantly medium-sized companies on their respective duties and the development of compliance prog...
Henrik Steffen Becker is a lawyer specialising in the field of intellectual property rights. He has years of experience above all in competition law as well as in the field of non-technical property rights (trademarks). Here Henrik Steffen Becker advises internationally active companies from the food, drinks and tobacco industry as well as the healthcare, power supply, telecommunication and IT sectors. His work includes the setting up and administering of German, European and international tr...
As a lawyer and tax advisor Mr Blusz mainly provides advice on tax-related corporate and asset succession. He assists family-run companies and wealthy individuals with succession planning and with structuring their private and corporate assets in the most tax effective way possible. His particular interest is cross-border issues.
Dr. Annette Bödeker is partner in the Frankfurt office of Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner. She is a renowned expert for corporate and M&A. She joined from Arnold & Porter where she has been responsible for the Corporate and M&A business at Arnold & Porter’s sole German office. She started her career with Hengeler Mueller, moving on to Linklaters where she was made partner practising in the Corporate/M&A group for a number of years. Dr. Bödeker h...
Prof. Dr. Antje Boldt joined RITTERSHAUS in 2021 as partner. She specialises in advising on the preparation and implementation of projects in the areas of infrastructure, school and day-care centre construction as well as health care, e.g. hospital construction. In particular, she focuses on new contract management forms of the integrated project alliance and methods from Lean Construction Management and Building Information Modelling. Antje Boldt is a professor of commercial law at the Frese...
Dr Peter Bujotzek is a partner at POELLATH in Frankfurt. He specializes in private funds, in particular the structuring of private equity funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds, managed accounts, investment law and all related tax matters, including investment tax law, regulatory law and secondary transactions. His clients include many well-known German and international fund managers and investors. Peter offers creative, state-of-the-art and full-service expertise and independent jud...
Stephan Correll is a lawyer and notary working in our Frankfurt office. Law Practice Stephan Correll is a certified specialist lawyer for banking and capital market law. His law practice is focused on banking regulations, in addition to real estate and tenancy law. Among others, he advises and assists a major cooperative bank in all legal matters, both in and out of court. Specifically, he deals with matters of private banking and credit security law. Notary Practice The focus of Stephan Corr...
Christoph Crisolli advises companies for over 20 years in all areas of individual and collective employment law with a focus on business transactions and restructuring from the planning phase to post-merger integration, social plan negotiations, the development and negotiation of redundancy schemes and collective bargaining agreements. He has particular experience in the management and implementation of transnational projects.
Dr Stephan Dittl is partner in the IP / litigation department of FGvW in Frankfurt. He is a renowned expert for copyright and media law. Stephan Dittl advises on all areas of IP law, mainly in the fields of copyright and competition law. He also uses his expertise in the legal process in other commercial law court proceedings, for example in distribution law, frequently with an international reference. He also works on IP topics in the context of M&A transactions.
Jens Engelhardt is a lawyer, specialist lawyer for information technology law (IT law), specialist lawyer for industrial property rights and specialist lawyer for copyright and media law. He conducts negotiations and litigations when technology and/or IT projects are in a state of distress, in (imminent) infringements of copyrights, trademark rights, business, and trade secrets and in unfair competition. The strategic planning and implementation of complex and often international procedures f...
Tom Erdt is a lawyer and partner at Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner as well as a certified specialist in administrative law. He joined FGvW in 2013 from the long-established Frankfurt law firm Pilger and heads the consultancy in the Rhine-Main-Neckar economic region from Frankfurt. Tom Erdt specialises in national and cross-border real estate transactions. A further focus of his consulting practice is in the area of fraud and compliance. He is particularly well networked in the Fr...
Dr Daniel Fischer is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Frankfurt office and member of the Real Estate practice group. His area of expertise comprises building, sectoral planning and real estate law as well as administrative law concerning trade and industry and procurement law. He particularly advises his national and international clients on planning and zoning processes, construction permits and urban development contracts as well as on all issues of commercial leases and private construction law.
Wendelin Frhr. v. Ketelhodt has been commissioned as a notary in Frankfurt am Main for more than 25 years and mainly carries out this activity. His notary activities not only include company start-ups, M&A transactions and notary services at company general meetings but also notarisation of property purchase agreements, developer contracts and declarations of division according to the German Condominium Act (WEG). They also include all inheritance law dispositions and contracts for compan...
Dr. Wolf-Henrik Friedrich advises pharmaceutical companies in the field of healthcare advertising law and the associated areas of pharmaceutical law and medicinal product law. He offers guidance to medium-sized companies from various sectors in intellectual property rights, especially competition law, trademark law and copyright law and also provides legal advice in matters pertaining to corporate law and the merger-control aspects of transactions. In addition, he organises and assists in the...
born in Münster 1999-2004 Graduate studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms-University of Münster 2004 -2006 PhD thesis on the subject of “Prohibitions with Reservation of Permission in the Law on Protection against Dismissal”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Christian Rolfs at the University of Bielefeld 2006-2008 Legal training in the Higher Regional Court district of Düsseldorf 2008 Admission to the German Bar Association 2008-2015 Lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP...
Ulf Gibhardt studied law at Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel (Germany). He additionally studied business administration at the distance teaching university FernUniversität in Hagen (Germany), completing his studies in 2005 with a thesis on tax-oriented structures for the acquisition of shares and interests. His legal training included working for a law firm in Shanghai (China). He was admitted to the German Bar in 2002, as a tax advisor in 2005, and as a civil-law notary in 2015. Ul...
Thorsten Goetz has wide-ranging experience in European Union and international merger control cases, as well as cartel enforcement, abuse of dominance and compliance matters. Mr. Goetz advises clients on antitrust aspects of complex cross-border M&A and joint ventures. He has worked on numerous transactions requiring international antitrust merger control approvals both in Europe and worldwide. Mr. Goetz is recognized as a leading antitrust lawyer in the Germany edition of Best Lawye...
Dr. Georg Greitemann is a partner at POELLATH in Frankfurt. He advises on M&A-related and venture capital-related transactions, internal restructuring and ongoing corporate law and corporate litigation matters. His clients include companies, company founders, shareholders and their families, as well as managing directors and supervisory board members. Approximately half of his work is cross-border. He is listed in domestic and international ranking guides for his expertise in private equi...
Joachim Heffinger Attorney Certified construction and architects' law attorney Mediator (DAA/German Lawyers’ Academy) Specialist mediator for the real estate and construction industries (m-con) Specialists areas : Private construction and real estate law, law of architects and engineers, general tort law and law of damages (in the real estate area), liability law of the liberal professions (architects, engineers, lawyers), commercial tenancy law, mediation/arbitration Expertise Since hi...
Heiko Heppner is co-head of the German Dispute Resolution practice group and professor of law concentrating on international arbitration and litigation with a focus on Germany and common law jurisdictions. Heiko has particular experience with defending clients against mass and class securities litigation and special expertise in Banking and Capital Markets litigation, including the liability of credit rating agencies and for the mis-selling of derivatives. Moreover, Heiko represents clients b...
Steffen Holatka is a lawyer who advises clients on all aspects of the building and architecture law with his particular speciality being construction-related legal consultation. He advises project developers, property developers, the investment managers of various life insurers, private building companies, engineers as well as towns, cities and local councils in connection with the realisation of medium-size and large-scale building projects. Starting with contract negotiation and drafting Mr...
Peter Hoppenstaedt advises national and international companies in all areas of individual and collective employment law. The focus of his work is on industrial constitution law and collective bargaining including operational conciliation proceedings, employment law advice in the context of restructuring projects and outsourcing, as well as on supporting his clients in individual proceedings and decision-making processes. He also has many years of experience advising managing directors, execu...
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