Markus Ruhmann

Born in Hamburg in 1963, Alexander Baden studied from 1982-1988 in Passau and Hamburg. He has been with ZENK Rechtsanwälte since 1990. Today, he focuses on real estate law and project development and is responsible for providing support for complex transactions. From 2011-2018, Mr. Baden was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BEOS AG, Berlin. For several years running, he has been listed as one of Germany’s top business lawyers in the ranking table “Germany’s Best Law...

Born in Helgoland in 1966, Dr. Carsten Oelrichs trained as an industrial business administrator before going on to study law at the University of Hamburg, where he also worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Commercial, Shipping and Business Law. He received his doctorate in 1998, with a thesis on “Creditor Participation and Voting Bans in New Insolvency Proceedings”. Dr. Oelrichs has been a lawyer at ZENK since 1998. For several years running, he has been named by JUVE as...

Sandra Pfister is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Banking and Finance Law and Project Finance and Development Practice. Sandra, who practices law in Hamburg, Germany, has been recognized since 2014. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Sandra is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Gül Pinar has been advising and defending clients exclusively in the field of criminal law for over 25 years. She draws on a high degree of specialization and decades of forensic experience from numerous major trials. These include proceedings before the Higher Regional Courts, oral hearings before the Federal Court of Justice, constitutional complaints, and proceedings before parliamentary investigative committees. Her experience as a criminal defense attorney in the fight for the right...

Christian was born in Hamburg in 1963. After his first state examination at the University of Hamburg he spent his legal clerkship, among others, with the Federal Cartel Office in Berlin, the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg, a law firm in Los Angeles and the German American Chamber of Commerce in Chicago. In 1993, he received his doctorate at the University of Hamburg (PhD Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Pri...

Born in Hamburg in 1962, Birgitta Weihrich studied law in Hamburg. After completing her legal clerkship – including a post at the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission in Brussels and Speyer – she was admitted to the bar in 1992. After spending a number of years in a commercial law firm in Northern Germany and as a legal advisor and authorized signatory of an insurance company, she joined ZENK in 2018. She has many years’ experience in both a wide ra...

Dr Jan Christoph Mosch, M.B.A., LL.M. specialises in corporate law, corporate contract law, M&A / real estate transactions and asset succession. Jan advises medium-sized companies, entrepreneurs and high-net-worth private individuals. Jan has always been enthusiastic about the complex issues of corporate law and the transaction business and has consistently focussed both his legal training and his work as a lawyer on these topics. He combines this experience with an entrepreneurial mindse...

Can law and creativity go together? Absolutely! Anne Christa Berger focuses on the protection of intellectual property, a practice area she concentrated on during her studies in Münster. To enhance her knowledge, she completed specialized foreign-language training in US law and earned a Master of Laws (Commercial Law) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Anne Christa gained valuable experience at a major law firm in Stuttgart and spent several years at an IP boutique in Hamburg ...

Thomas Heissner is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law. Thomas, who practices law in Hamburg, Germany, has been recognized since 2013. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Thomas is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Oliver Reimann is an attorney and partner at Möhrle Happ Luther . He consults across the full spectrum of real estate law, including real estate transactions, urban development and planning, project development, leasing, and construction. His clients include German and international investors, open-end and closed-end real estate funds, pension funds, private equity investors, project developers and public sector enterprises. As a result of his expertise in administrative law, Oliver Reim...