Christoph Rothenfusser

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

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...

Helge-Torsten Wöhlert is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law. Helge-Torsten, who practices law in Munich, Germany, has been recognized since 2022. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Helge-Torsten is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Dr Michael Grünwald is partner in the Munich office of RITTERSHAUS. He specialises in real estate transactions and financing. His clients include real estate funds, owners of portfolio properties and property developers whom he advises on all issues associated with the acquisition and sale as well as the financing of portfolio properties or projects.

Since 2018: Kantenwein • Zimmermann • Spatscheck & Partner, partner 2003 – 2018: Kantenwein • Zimmermann • Fox • Kröck & Partner, partner 1992 – 2002: Tax consultant 1990 – 1991: Larger accounting firm, tax consultant and auditor 1985 – 1989: Rädler, Raupach & Partner, Munich, auditing department with tax consulting activities

Qualified to practice law in New York and Germany, Gebhard serves as counsel and as arbitrator. Gebhard has advised a broad range of 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 from other long-term...

The founding partner Professor Dr. Christoph Knauer is responsible for the areas of corporate criminal law, commercial criminal law, tax criminal law, and medical criminal law, as well as criminal appeals and constitutional complaints. He has many years of experience in all areas of criminal law and criminal procedure law; his litigation experience in particular also covers proceedings before the German Federal Court of Justice and the German Federal Constitutional Court. Prof. Dr. Knauer adv...

Thomas G.-E. Müller is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Labor and Employment Law. Thomas G.-E., who practices law in Munich, Germany, has been recognized since 2026. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Thomas G.-E. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Dr. Stefan Fickert, born 1969, studied organic, inorganic and physical chemistry at the University of Erlangen/Nürnberg and the University of Rennes, France. He completed his studies with a diploma thesis in the field of heterogeneous catalysis. After obtaining his Ph.D. at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry in Mainz with a main emphasis on the kinetics of heterogeneous reactions and on analytical chemistry, he started working in the field of intellectual property in 1998 in the firm...

Lawyer and tax advisor Dr. Jack Schiffer is Of Counsel to the firm. His area of practice includes mergers & acquisitions, all areas of corporate law, restructuring law as well as private equity. He has many years of experience in national and international M&A transactions involving strategic and financial investors, including private equity funds. His international focus has been on the USA, China, Austria and Italy. Dr. Schiffer has comprehensively advised multinational corporations...