Franck Schmidt-Husson

After studying at the universities of Tübingen and Bonn, Klaus Gerstenmaier took his doctorate degree at the University of Göttingen (Dr. jur.). He lectures and publishes regularly, especially on arbitration law, and is a lecturer for International Arbitration at the University of Konstanz. Klaus Gerstenmaier was the German member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, Paris, he is a member of the board of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS), Past Chair of the Litigation ...

For more than 20 years, Dr. Hartmut Fischer has been advising companies on the planning and operation of commercial and industrial facilities. He acts on behalf of cities and municipalities as well as of investors, cooperating on projects involving urban land-use planning and planning permission procedures in order to realise commercial, residential and industrial districts. He designs development plans and drafts urban development contracts for building land development, municipal building l...

Dr Stefan Lammel is a lawyer and managing partner at the Freiburg office of Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner and a certified specialist in corporate and commercial law. His focus is also on business succession, M&A and restructuring and insolvency. He is a member of the Freiburg Bar Association’s Working Group and Corporate and Commercial Law, the Centre of Insolvency and Restructuring at the Mannheim University and speaks German and English.

Albert Schröder is a lawyer and partner at Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner. He has been working in the corporate law practice group of Friedrich Graf von Westphalen’s Freiburg office since 1993. Albert Schröder is a certified specialist in corporate and commercial law and in tax law. His focus is on corporate law (formations, reorganizations, disputes, business successions) M&A and company acquisitions, private equity, corporate financing, international commerc...

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).

Hans-Georg Kauffeld studied at the universities of Bayreuth and Freiburg, he took his doctorate at the University of Freiburg (Dr. jur.). He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Commercial and Business Law of the University of Freiburg.

Dr Frank Jungfleisch is a lawyer and partner at the Freiburg office of Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner. His focus is on IT law, where he advises software manufacturers and other IT companies and online agencies on IT projects, software, licence and support and distribution contracts. He further advises companies on M&A transactions, especially in relation with IT matters. He is a member of the German Bar Association’s Working Group on IT Law as well as on Corporate and C...

Holger Leichtle is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Restructuring and Insolvency Law. Holger, who practices law in Stuttgart, Germany, has been recognized since 2022. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Holger 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.

Christian Aufdermauer studied law at the University of Tübingen and the University of Lausanne (antitrust law). He took his doctorate in insolvency law at the University of Passau (Dr. jur.) and is a member of the Antitrust Lawyers Association (Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht), the German Society for Distribution Law and the Working Group for International Business Law of the German Bar Association (DAV)