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Dr. Matthias Uhl primarily offers comprehensive advice in matters relating to commercial and corporate law to nationally and internationally active, medium-sized and larger companies as well as capital market oriented companies from the chemical, facility construction, automotive, power supply, telecommunications, IT and travel catering sectors. In this, his main focus lies on corporate acquisitions and sales, venture capital, corporate structuring and restructuring as well as economic law. M...

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.

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).

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...

Roland Kläger studied law at the University of Freiburg and holds a doctor of laws (Dr. jur.) from the University of Tübingen. He worked as a research fellow at the University of Freiburg, as a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law of the University of Cambridge and practised dispute resolution in a big international law firm in Frankfurt. Roland Kläger holds various positions in the arbitration community and is e.g. co-chair of the arbitration and lit...

Jörg Richardi studied law at the University of Konstanz, where he also obtained his doctorate (Dr. jur.). He is currently a member of the Board of the Stuttgart Bar Association. Jörg Richardi is also a lecturer at the Stuttgart Technology University of Applied Sciences, a member of the board of examiners for the second state examination in law and a member of professional associations on labour law including the Working Group of Specialist Attorneys in Labour Law of the German Bar A...

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...

Ulrich Schnelle studied law at the universities of Passau, Geneva, Freiburg and Illinois. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Freiburg (Dr. jur.) and is an honorary professor of Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Sciences for economics and the environment. In addition, he is a member and chairman of various supervisory boards.

Marc Seiffert is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law. Marc, who practices law in Stuttgart, Germany, has been recognized since 2020. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Marc is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

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)