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Tobias Geerling is a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges Munich office. His practice focuses on transactional work, advising in particular on tax, cross-border private equity and M&A transactions as well as on international corporate partnership real estate, insolvency and exempt organization tax issues. He has extensive experience handling tax-efficient structuring of M&A transactions, corporate re-organizations, fund structuring and tax-driven derivatives. His experience expands i...

Dr Frank Thiäner is a partner at POELLATH in Munich. Frank advises shareholders, investors and companies on M&A transactions. His focus is on private equity, family-owned enterprises and cross-border transactions. He also advises on venture capital transactions and succession planning. His clients include well-known German and international private equity funds, owners of medium-sized companies and private investors. He is one of the founders of the Munich M&A Forum e.V., served ...

Dr. Stefan Rolf Huebner is a Munich-based German and European Patent and Trademark Attorney with more than 20 years of experience. One focus of his work is the multi-jurisdictional prosecution and litigation of intellectual property rights. The other is the legal protection of emerging technologies, where the patent offices' and courts' practice is still in the act of development and where there is a lack established case law. Dr. Huebner is one of the few acknowledged European experts in the...

Dr. Stefan Fickert, born 1969, studied organic, inorganic and physical chemistry at the University of Erlangen/Nürnberg and the University of Rennes, France. He completed his studies with a diploma thesis in the field of heterogeneous catalysis. After obtaining his Ph.D. at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry in Mainz with a main emphasis on the kinetics of heterogeneous reactions and on analytical chemistry, he started working in the field of intellectual property in 1998 in the firm...

Peter F. Peschke is a partner at POELLATH in Munich and a member of the management board. He is an recognized tax expert and advises national and international private equity funds, managers and management companies, as well as investors on private equity funds. In this context, he also advises on tax audits and fiscal court proceedings. He studied business administration in Munich, was admitted as tax advisor in 2004 and served as associate in a Munich tax law firm, specializing on private e...

Axel von Walter is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Data Security and Privacy Law, Entertainment Law, Information Technology Law, Intellectual Property Law and Media Law. Axel, who practices law in Munich, Germany, has been recognized since 2020. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Axel is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Martina Sunde is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Criminal Tax Practice. Martina, 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 Martina is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Since 2023: Kröck Dispute Resolution, founding partner 2014 - 2023: Dispute resolution boutique, Munich, most recently salary partner 2011 - 2013: Higher Regional Court of Berlin, legal clerkship with placement at leading Brazilian law firm 2010 - 2011: King's College London, LL.M. studies 2005 - 2010: Humboldt University of Berlin, legal studies

Dr. Wolfgang Patzelt is partner in the Munich office of RITTERSHAUS. He is a specialist lawyer for administrative law and advises project developers and investors on the fast and legally secure enforcement and structuring of building law. He advises projects in the residential/commercial/industrial sectors as well as in the renewable energy sector, primarily wind power and photovoltaics. He also represents municipalities in urban planning law. In addition to drafting development plans, he spe...

Benedikt Gatt is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Restructuring and Insolvency Law. Benedikt, who practices law in Munich, Germany, has been recognized since 2026. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Benedikt is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.