Lars Wenzel

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...

Tarek Mardini is a partner in the private funds practice group of POELLATH in Berlin. He specializes in comprehensive advice on contract, corporate, regulatory and tax law and market practice in the area of alternative investment funds and asset management. He advises German and international fund managers on fund structuring, as well as institutional investors and family offices on investments in private equity, venture capital, private debt, infrastructure, real estate funds and other alter...

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

Dr Karl Friedrich Dumoulin primarily advises companies on issues of national and international commercial law in their day-to-day business (supply and service agreements, cooperation and distribution agreements, questions relating to competition law and IP law, in particular trademark applications, licence agreements). Dr Dumoulin also represents his clients before courts, offices and courts of arbitration in these areas. In particular, Dr Dumoulin specialises in the field of financial servic...

Stefan Proske is a partner of HEUKING KÜHN LÜER WOJTEK since 2012. Before he worked for various law firms in the areas of insolvency administration and pre-insolvency consultation. Today Stefan Proske provides comprehensive legal advice and representation on all legal aspects of crisis/reorganization/insolvency. Besides representation of creditors he regularly advices companies in reorganization, their directors and investors in distressed situations. Stefan Proske regularly publish...

Dr Thorsten Bieg advises national and international companies, creditors, investors and suppliers/customers in situations of crises. He specialises in the areas of insolvency law and restructuring, legal, financial and accounting reorganisation, trusteeships, corporate law, mergers & acquisitions and advice in times of crisis.

Dr. Wolf-Henrik Friedrich advises pharmaceutical companies in the field of healthcare advertising law and the associated areas of pharmaceutical law and medicinal product law. He offers guidance to medium-sized companies from various sectors in intellectual property rights, especially competition law, trademark law and copyright law and also provides legal advice in matters pertaining to corporate law and the merger-control aspects of transactions. In addition, he organises and assists in the...

Thomas Kerkhoff is partner in our Düsseldorf office. For many years he has been advising clients on intellectual property law. His work includes advice on trademarks, their protection and their realisation. In cooperation with accountants and business economists he is regularly involved in the taxational assessment of trademarks. His work also includes all aspects of copyright protection, designs and unfair trading. He also does litigation in cases of intellectual property infringements ...

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

Sara Berendsen is a Shareholder in the German Corporate/M&A team. Sara has extensive experience in the field of Private Equity and M&A transactions, in particular distressed M&A, for national and international clients with a special focus on the retail, technology and real estate sectors. She advises her clients on corporate restructurings, including cross-border mergers and other cross-border corporate measures, as well as transactions of all kinds, including acquisition and sale...