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Dr Benedikt Hohaus is a partner at POELLATH in Munich. He is the clear number one in the market for management advice. Benedikt works in the areas of private equity, tax law and corporate law. Within these specialist areas, he focuses on advising private equity funds and managers on all legal and tax aspects of management investments, incentives for managers and employees and management buy-out / management buy-in. Domestic and international ranking publications, including JUVE, Chambers, The...

Founding partner Dr Maren Gräfe is a proven expert in advising on tax law and corporate law. She specialises in tax, legal and strategic asset structuring and succession planning, family and corporate governance issues as well as the establishment of professional asset and family office structures from a legal, tax and economic perspective and investment taxation. She is a member of the supervisory board of Carl Hanser Verlag and a member of the scientific advisory board of the IVS Insti...

Michael Kobler is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Intellectual Property Law. Michael Kobler’s main areas of practice involve advising German and international clients on patent litigation, drafting license agreements and other IP-related agreements, advising clients on matters relating to employee invention law and unfair competition law. He cooperates with the firm’s patent attorneys in proceedings relating to cross-border actions, enforcement of paten...

Robert is a specialist lawyer for commercial and corporate law and has many years of experience in litigation. He advises German and international clients in complex commercial disputes, in particular in the areas of insolvency law and corporate law (shareholder disputes, manager liability and in connection with corporate transactions and restructuring processes), commercial law (in particular international commercial transactions) and banking law. Furthermore, he has extensive experience in ...

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.

Dr. Jörg Hahn was born in 1973 in Meiningen, Germany. He studied chemistry at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen, focusing on physical chemistry. During his studies, he completed a diploma thesis addressing kinetics in atmospheric chemistry. He later earned his Ph.D. at the University of Göttingen, where his research concentrated on kinetics and combustion chemistry. Following his doctoral work, Dr. Hahn joined the start-up company Microliquids. In this role, he worked wi...

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...

Stephan Rau is Managing Shareholder of Greenberg Traurig’s Munich office and Chair of the firm’s European Healthcare Practice. He focuses in advising on private equity/ M&A transactions, and regulatory in the healthcare and life sciences sectors. His clients include private equity and strategic investors, healthcare service providers, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, and university institutions. Due to his experience, Stephan Rau is recognized as a leadi...

Christian Gerloff is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Restructuring and Insolvency Law. Christian practices law in Munich, Germany Best Lawyers has recognized Christian Gerloff since 2024. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Christian Gerloff is held by other lawyers.

Boris Uphoff is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Intellectual Property Law and Litigation. Boris practices law in Munich, Germany Best Lawyers has recognized Boris Uphoff since 2018. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Boris Uphoff is held by other lawyers.