Bernd Borgmann

Gabi Müllejans LL.M. oec. is a lawyer and local partner at Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner. Since 2024, she has been working in the intellectual property and trademark and design law practice of Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner’s Cologne office. She has many years of working experience as a trademark and competition lawyer at leading, internationally oriented law firms. She worked as a lawyer specializing intellectual property law at a renowned IP boutique in...

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I was born in 1976 and studied law in Bonn (Germany) and Strasbourg (France). After my legal traineeship at the Bonn Regional Court and the 2nd state law examination, I was admitted to the bar in 2005. In 2011, the board of the Cologne Bar Association allowed me to use the title “Specialist Lawyer for Tax Law”. In 2016, I successfully took part in the “Certified Executor of Wills (AGT)” course, which was carried out in cooperation with the Working Group for Wills Execu...

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Alexander Bork is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Labor and Employment Law. Alexander, who practices law in Düsseldorf, Germany, has been recognized since 2021. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Alexander is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.