Nikolai Wessendorf

Annette Keller is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Tax Law. Annette, 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 Annette is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Lawyer Senior Asia Counsel

Lawyer Partner

Robert is a specialist lawyer for commercial and corporate law and has many years of experience in litigation. He advises German and international clients in complex commercial disputes, in particular in the areas of insolvency law and corporate law (shareholder disputes, manager liability and in connection with corporate transactions and restructuring processes), commercial law (in particular international commercial transactions) and banking law. Furthermore, he has extensive experience in ...

Sebastian Frech is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Venture Capital Law. Sebastian, who practices law in Munich, Germany, has been recognized since 2022. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Sebastian is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

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...

Gero Burwitz is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Tax Law. Gero, who practices law in Munich, Germany, has been recognized since 2021. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Gero is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

The founding partner Professor Dr. Christoph Knauer is responsible for the areas of corporate criminal law, commercial criminal law, tax criminal law, and medical criminal law, as well as criminal appeals and constitutional complaints. He has many years of experience in all areas of criminal law and criminal procedure law; his litigation experience in particular also covers proceedings before the German Federal Court of Justice and the German Federal Constitutional Court. Prof. Dr. Knauer adv...

Stephan Rau is Managing Shareholder of Greenberg Traurig’s Munich office and Chair of the firm’s European Healthcare Practice. He focuses in advising on private equity/ M&A transactions, and regulatory in the healthcare and life sciences sectors. His clients include private equity and strategic investors, healthcare service providers, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, and university institutions. Due to his experience, Stephan Rau is recognized as a leadi...

Dr. Paul Tauchner graduated in chemistry at the University of Munich. He made his Ph.D. at the Institute of Organic Chemistry in 1974. After completing his training in the field of intellectual property protection in the firm of VOSSIUS & PARTNER, he was admitted to practice as a German Patent Attorney (Patentanwalt) in 1977, a European Patent Attorney in 1978 and a European Trademark Attorney in 1994. Dr. Tauchner has been a partner in the firm since 1980. He works predominantly on oppos...