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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...

Gero Wilke, LL.M. Attorney Certified specialist in intellectual property Certified specialist in IT law External data protection officer Partner Specialists areas : IT law, i ntellectual property, d ata protection I have been advising national and international companies, primarily SMEs, on all legal issues relating to IT law and intellectual property for over 15 years. As a certified specialist in IT law, I specialise in advising on complex IT projects, drafting, reviewing and negotiating so...

Moritz Burwick is Partner at the Ebner Stolz office in Karlsruhe, Germany. He was admitted as a lawyer in 2011 and as a tax consultant in 2014 and is a member of the Corporate/M&A service line. Moritz Burwick advises clients in all areas of corporate law. His work focuses in particular on providing legal advice to medium-sized companies and their shareholders on M&A transactions, reorganisations (mergers, spin-offs, changes of legal form, collapse mergers) and start-up investments. Th...

Volker Schwarz is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law. Volker, who practices law in Stuttgart, Germany, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Volker is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

The primary focus of Dr. Anno Haberer’s work is advising on antitrust law covering both antitrust violation and merger control proceedings as well as on contract wording in line with antitrust legislation. Further important areas of activity are industrial property rights, in particular trademark law as well as legislation on unfair competition, IT and data protection law and employee inventions.

Alexander Hübner studied at the University of Kiel, where he also obtained his doctorate (Dr. jur.), and he continued his legal training in Kiel, Paris, Heidelberg, Hamburg and Luxembourg. He is currently the spokesman of the Baden-Württemberg chapter of the public procurement association “forum vergabe e.V.” and regularly holds lectures at conferences on public procurement and state aid law in Germany and abroad. From 2012 to 2018, he was the German member of the EU Com...

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).

Prof. Dr. Christof Hettich is specialised in the fields of Mergers & Acquisitions, the structuring and restructuring of companies as well as general corporate law. For many years, he has chaired or held seats on a number of supervisory boards including those of listed companies in various industry sectors. Prof. Dr. Hettich is honorary professor at SRH University Heidelberg and lectured at Heidelberg University (LL.M. corporate restructuring) until 2014.

Elisabeth Wyrembek studied law at the University of Tübingen and at Queen Mary University of London (LL.M. in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution). She undertook her legal traineeship at the Higher Regional Court in Stuttgart, with a focus on European law. She is currently also studying for a doctorate in international commercial and investment arbitration at the University of Tübingen. She is a member of the Antitrust Lawyers Association (Studienvereinigung Kartellrech...

Andreas is a renowned corporate lawyer who leads Gowling WLG's Corporate/M&A practice in Germany. He can draw upon more than 30 years of experience in negotiating major and complex cross-border projects. Among his - very international - clients, there are leading multinationals, public authorities, private equity firms and private equity owned businesses. Andreas brings with him expertise in reorganisations and compliance investigations and has worked in-house. Andreas is highly recognize...