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Timo Alte studied law at the University of Würzburg where he also obtained his doctorate (Dr. jur.). He undertook his legal training in Düsseldorf and also a legal internship in Sydney/Australia. Timo Alte lectures trainee lawyers on corporate law for the Stuttgart Bar Association, is a member of the Working Group on Commercial and Corporate Law of the German Bar Association (DAV) and of the Corporate Law Association (VGR).

Wolfgang Schmid is a lawyer and of counsel at Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner. His main focus lies on competition and cartel law, copyright, publishing and press law, trademarks and designs, as well as pharmaceuticals and food law. Wolfgang is a member of the German Association for Intellectual Property Rights (Gesellschaft für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht), the European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA) and the Ligue International du Droit de la Concurr...

Roland Kläger studied law at the University of Freiburg and holds a doctor of laws (Dr. jur.) from the University of Tübingen. He worked as a research fellow at the University of Freiburg, as a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law of the University of Cambridge and practised dispute resolution in a big international law firm in Frankfurt. Roland Kläger holds various positions in the arbitration community and is e.g. co-chair of the arbitration and lit...

Lawyer since 2000 Specialist lawyer (Fachanwalt) for IT law Other activities : Instructor for prospective specialist lawyers in IT law Seminar coordinator with Management Circle (2007-2018) Lectureship at Würzburg University (2008-2016) Education : Würzburg University (Dr. iur.) Université de Caen, France Career : Since 2005 Lawyer in Heidelberg 2004 Lawyer with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Frankfurt am Main 2002 to 2004 Public prosecutor in Frankfurt am Main 2001 Lawyer w...

Dr. Claudia Pleßke advises national and international companies on corporate and transactional law. In this connection, she advises companies mainly from the automotive, aerospace, pharmaceutical and food industries, on national and cross-border M&A transactions and in recent years increasingly on Chinese outbound transactions. Another focal point of her work is advice on formulating contracts for companies in all fields of commercial law. Claudia Pleßke is in charge of the Ch...

Jörg Richardi studied law at the University of Konstanz, where he also obtained his doctorate (Dr. jur.). He is currently a member of the Board of the Stuttgart Bar Association. Jörg Richardi is also a lecturer at the Stuttgart Technology University of Applied Sciences, a member of the board of examiners for the second state examination in law and a member of professional associations on labour law including the Working Group of Specialist Attorneys in Labour Law of the German Bar A...

Dr Werner Born studied law at Heidelberg University. After completing his doctorate in Heidelberg, he began working as a lawyer with a focus on family businesses. In 2010 he made partner at RITTERSHAUS where he is a member of the Practice Group dedicated to Entrepreneurial Families & Private Clients consisting of seventeen lawyers and three notaries. In 2017, they took second place for “Exzellenz in Mediation und Konfliktmanagement” (Excellence in Mediation and Conflict Manage...

Rupert Vogel is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Information Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law. Rupert, who practices law in Karlsruhe, Germany, has been recognized since 2009. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Rupert is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Dr. Andreas Notz’s main practice area is the provision of comprehensive advice to employers on employment law and, above all on codetermination and collective bargaining law. In this field, he assists nationally and internationally active companies above all from the health sector, the energy supply industry, the ancillary building trade as well as the service and retail industry. Functioning as an out-sourced legal or personnel department, employment law specialist is available for eve...

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Tödtmann Partner Professor Tödtmann’s areas of legal practice are labour law, corporate law, energy law and compliance consultancy. He has more than 25 years of experience in advising and assisting medium-sized companies from different industrial sectors, but particularly the energy, automotive, electricity and metal as well as traffic sectors. Drawing upon his extensive experience both as a lawyer and as long-standing head of a corporate legal department and ...