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Stefan Abel, litigator and counsel, represents clients in all matters of trademark, design and copyright law, unfair competition matters, domain name disputes and licensing and distribution matters. A particular focus of his practice concerns the representation of French clients. Stefan Abel’s clients include a well-known manufacturer of leather goods and major clients in the luxury goods and sports sector. Stefan Abel has regularly served as Panelist with the World Intellectual Propert...
Norbert Alber has been working in industrial property law since 1985 and has been a partner since 2015. His activities focus on • Patent grant proceedings before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office, the Federal Patent Court and the European Patent Office • Opposition proceedings before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office, the Federal Patent Court and the European Patent Office • Nullity proceedings and utility model cancellation proceedings before the Federal Patent Cou...
Dr. Georg Anders works in the Munich office and has been a partner since joining HEUSSEN in 2008. His area of expertise is corporate law. He advises on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, shareholder agreements and disagreements. His expertise covers legal issues regarding the restructuring of companies, crisis management as well as financial and corporate succession. Additionally, Dr. Georg Anders lectures as assistant professor at the University for Applied Sciences in Munich.
Christian W. Appelt is focused on personal counseling of SMEs in Germany and Europe in all aspects of Intellectual Property, especially Patents and Utility Models, and on representing and advising large, internationally active companies, especially from Japan, China, and the US. His technical concentration is on physics, mechanical engineering, electronics, and computer technology (ICT). Besides drafting and prosecuting patent applications, Christian W. Appelt especially concentrates on repre...
Arnold Asmussen started his training in the field of intellectual property in 1996, and he joined VOSSIUS & PARTNER in 1997. He was admitted to practice as a European Patent Attorney in 2003. Arnold Asmussen became a German Patent Attorney (Patentanwalt) and a European Trademark & Design Attorney in 2005. He has been a partner in the firm since 2007. Arnold Asmussen has extensive knowledge in the field of medical engineering, especially in the field of cardiovascular medicine, neuromo...
Born in 1972, Law School University of Munich (first state examination 1998). Additional studies of business administration at the University Hagen. Doctorate in 2006, certified specialist lawyer for labour law since 2006, certified specialist lawyer for Corporate and Commercial Law since 2021.
Dr Michael Best is a partner at POELLATH in Munich since 2002. He has many years of experience in national and international tax law. He focuses on tax advice for private equity funds, their investors and carry-holders on all relevant tax aspects. Another main aspect of his professional tax advice lies in cross-border tax structuring for the acquisition of companies and real estate packages. Michael is regularly listed in renowned tax rankings and has an excellent reputation in the market due...
Markus Birkenmaier is a founding partner of BIRKENMAIER & OBSER Rechtsanwälte , a boutique law firm in Munich (Germany). He specializes in corporate law, commercial law and tax law as well as white-collar crime (including criminal tax law). Markus was admitted to the German Bar ( Rechtsanwalt ) in 2005 and studied at the universities of Bayreuth (Germany), Munich (Germany), London (United Kingdom) and Heidelberg (Germany). He is also a specialist tax lawyer ( Fachanwalt für Steu...
Dr Dirk Brückner (Lawyer of the Year Real Estate Law, Bayern 2021) is one of the leading real estate lawyers in Germany. He had a leading role in supporting some of the largest transactions in Germany, including the transaction of “Macherei” in Munich which involved Art-Invest, Accumulata and BVK in a complex share deal. Specialization: real estate transactions, real estate joint ventures. Short Biography: Universities of Munich and Passau. Academic member of staff at the &ld...
Michael Brückner is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT’s Munich office and member of the Public Sector practice group. His area of activity comprises structuring and assisting with national and European tender procedures, privatisation and PPP projects, including drafting and negotiating contracts. He also represents contract awarders and bidders in review procedures. He focuses particularly on the IT, telecommunications and defence sectors as well as on infrastructure projects. He is als...
Dr Matthias Bruse is a founding partner of POELLATH (formerly P+P Pöllath + Partners). He has practiced corporate law since 1984 and has decades of expertise in transactions with a focus on private equity investments and family-owned businesses. In addition, he is also highly regarded for his corporate law advice, often with regard to succession issues. Matthias is also active as arbitrator, in particular with respect to post-M&A disputes. He is frequently ranked as one of the preemi...
Qualified to practice law in New York and Germany, Gebhard serves as counsel and as arbitrator. Gebhard has advised a broad range of public and private clients across many industries, including energy and natural resources, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and financial services. He has acted in many investment and commercial disputes, including high-value post-M&A arbitrations, price revisions under some of Europe’s largest gas import contracts, and disputes arising f...
Ralf-Michael Burkhardt, as an expert in the protection of intellectual property, specialises in providing legal advice in the areas of food law and press and media law. He has extensive experience in handling court proceedings. For many years he practicised in the firm of a lawyer admitted to the Federal Supreme Court in Karlsruhe.
Since 2018: Kantenwein • Zimmermann • Spatscheck & Partner, partner 2015 – 2018: Kantenwein • Zimmermann • Fox • Kröck & Partner, partner 2007 – 2015: Weil Gotshal & Manges, Munich office, Frankfurt office 2000 – 2007: Oppenhoff & Rädler, Linklaters, Berlin office, Frankfurt office 1996 – 2000: Lignitz, Berlin
Dr André Depping is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT’s Munich office and member of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice group. His area of expertise comprises litigation, arbitration and mediation, especially in the automotive, pharmaceutical, product liability, sales and partnership law sector. He particularly advises his national and international clients on proceedings with technical background as well as questions regarding liability and interpretation of a contra...
Dr. Jan Dittmann has been working at the Munich office of our law firm since 2001. During his law studies, which took him to Munich, Milan, Rome and Berkeley, Dr. Dittmann was hired as a procurator by a company that specialized in construction consulting and project development. Ever since his bar admission, he has primarily acted in an advisory capacity in real estate law, construction law as well as renewable energy laws. In addition to legal advice on real estate transactions and real esta...
Hannes Dürr studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich and at the Abat-Oliba University in Barcelona. Also in Munich, he completed his legal clerkship from 2003 until 2005. From 2005 until 2010 Hannes Dürr worked at the law firm Müller & Hillmayer in Munich and changed to SNP together with Burkhard Rüscher in 2010. He focuses on private building law, building contracts law and condominium law. Hannes Dürr is a contributor to the ARGE Mietrecht und I...
Stefan Eck has been primarily active in KLAKA's patent law practice for nearly 20 years. He is experienced in handling complex infringement suits, patent nullity actions and misappropriation actions. A further focus of his activities is advice on employee inventions and license and development contracts. Stefan Eck advises and represents national and international companies, especially in the areas of mechanical engineering, biotechnology, pharmacy, chemistry and general mechanics. In additio...
Dr Maximilian Emanuel Elspas is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Munich office, co-head of the Corporate / M&A practice group and responsible for the competence area Energy. He provides advice to his national and international clients from the energy industry and other industrial sectors on all aspects of energy law, assists them with projects and also represents them in disputes.
Practice Areas Friedrich Emmerling has extensive experience in conducting patent litigation and prosecution, enforcing patents and utility models, offering strategic advice on patent portfolios and representing clients in numerous nullity proceedings and oppositions before the German patent courts and EPO. He also cooperates with law firms in parallel infringement proceedings before the German Regional/Higher Regional Courts. Many of these patent disputes are based on SEPs and concern complex...
Markus Engelhard is active in all fields of life sciences, pharmacology, and biotechnology, having a particular focus on therapeutic biomolecules and pharmaceutically active agents. His clients include start-up companies, small and medium-sized enterprises, multinational corporations, universities, and academic research institutions. He supports them in acquiring and enforcing intellectual property rights, building up patent portfolios, and representing them in opposition, invalidation, and i...
Peter Fabry Attorney Tax advisor Certified tax law attorney Certified consultant for criminal tax law (DAA) Specialists area : Tax law Peter Fabry's consulting focus is on national and international tax structuring consulting for larger medium-sized companies, real estate tax law, asset and succession planning for companies and private individuals, and tax defense consulting. As a certified consultant for criminal tax law (DAA), his special focus is on the avoidance of criminal tax offences a...
Dr. Armin Fary, LL.M. Eur. Attorney Certified commercial and corporate law attorney Specialists areas : Corporate law, Transactions (M&A, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Real Estate) Dr. Armin Fary provides advice to companies as well as to private and institutional investors on all matters of a company law and commercial law nature. The focus of his consulting is on company law as well as on national and cross-border transactions in the areas of mergers & acquisitions, private equit...
Jürgen Feldmeier is a German and European patent attorney with comprehensive experience in prosecution procedures for patents, trademarks and designs before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the EPO and the EU Intellectual Property Office. He has frequently served as lead patent counsel in various litigation proceedings, including infringement, nullity and opposition proceedings, before the patent offices and the courts of Munich, Düsseldorf and Mannheim, as well as the higher...
Dr Michaela Felisiak is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Munich office and member of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. She advises national and international clients and businesses on all issues of the German and European social-security law and labour law. Among other things, she focuses her work on providing legal advice on cross-border matters. In this context she advises on all labour and social security law issues in connection with cross-border employee assignments (secondmen...
Martin Fink is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT‘s Munich office and member of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. His area of expertise especially comprises collective and individual labour law, on which he advises national and international companies. Negotiations with bodies under works constitution law (group/central/individual works councils) at the occasion of restructurings are as much part of his area of expertise as the defence of employers against dismissal protection or...
Dr Nico Fischer is a partner at POELLATH in Munich. His core areas are national and international tax law, general tax planning and structuring with a focus on private equity and M&A. In addition, he advises national and international private equity houses as well as German carry holders on German tax issues. Nico regularly publishes articles on tax topics in relevant professional media and passes on his expertise as a lecturer at the University of Muenster in the Master’s program i...
Gustav acts as counsel and arbitrator in multifaceted domestic and international arbitrations, involving a wide array of matters under many different laws. His institutional track record includes cases under the ICC, DIS, VIAC, SCC, FAI and SCAI Rules. He has extensive experience with ad hoc arbitrations (domestic and UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules), and sits as chair, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator and emergency arbitrator at various seats throughout Europe. Gustav’s main areas of expertis...
Silke Freund focuses on the contentious – sometimes cross-border – enforcement of trade marks or the defense against asserted infringement claims of third parties. She also supports clients in their worldwide trade mark portfolio management in the filing, assignment, and licencing of trade marks as well as opposition, appeal, and cancellation proceedings before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (GPTO) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). Silke Freund ...
Tobias Geerling is a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges Munich office. His practice focuses on transactional work, advising in particular on tax, cross-border private equity and M&A transactions as well as on international corporate partnership real estate, insolvency and exempt organization tax issues. He has extensive experience handling tax-efficient structuring of M&A transactions, corporate re-organizations, fund structuring and tax-driven derivatives. His experience expands i...
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