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Bettina Backes studied at the University of Bonn. This was followed by a long-term period of employment in the publishing industry and the intensification of her specialization in a law firm focused on media law and several years as a partner in a trans-regional and internationally-oriented commercial law firm in Stuttgart. Alongside her voluntary involvement in various cultural and educational institutions, she is a (deputy) judge at the Constitutional Court of Baden-Württemberg and mem...

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...

Dr. Christina Eschenfelder’s area of expertise is corporate law. She advises listed and unlisted companies and their supervisory board and managing board members primarily on stock corporation and corporate law as well as matters pertaining to corporate governance. Christina Eschenfelder provides guidance to investors and corporations during financing processes and advises nationally as well as internationally operating companies on structuring and restructuring measures as well as duri...

Before he joined our law firm, Dr. Norbert Hebeis headed the EU trademark department of a large US company (pharmaceuticals, consumer products) for ten years. He has been a partner of FGvW for 16 years and specializes in trademark and design litigation and prosecution, unfair competition litigation and counselling. His international key clients are Novartis (pharma), Wilkinson Sword (razors), erima (sportswear), Gloster (furniture) and Haufe-Lexware (publishing house).

Dr. Andreas Torka’s main area of consultation is on plant construction and private construction and architectural law. In these areas, he advises nationally and internationally operating companies from the building construction and civil engineering, plant construction, energy supply and chemical industries on the implementation of new projects as well as on the judicial enforcement and defence of claims. Furthermore, Mr Torka is also active in competition law, in particular in the area...

Stephan Baur studied at the universities of Passau, Munich and Freiburg, where he also took his doctorate (Dr. jur.). He is currently a lecturer in private business law at the distance learning university HFH Hamburg. In addition, he is a member of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR) and of supervisory boards of commercial companies.

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...

Dr. Felix Klemt primarily advises clients in the fields of real estate, building and corporate law. His work focuses on project developments, transactions, corporate formation and structuring and advising young, innovative companies. In addition, Felix Klemt provides guidance on the tax aspects of real estate and corporate law.

Dr. Patrick Certa chiefly advises clients on matters of corporate law as well as Mergers & Acquisitions transactions and corporate financing. In this context, he represents regionally, nationally as well as internationally active firms in Germany and abroad during the restructuring of companies and corporate groups as well as in the formulation and negotiation of contracts. Patrick Certa also acts as a litigator in court proceedings in the aforementioned areas of expertise.

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...