Stephan Nüsse

Jesko Stark focuses his practice on restructuring and insolvency matters. He was admitted to the Berlin bar in 2008 and has been regularly appointed as an insolvency administrator and trustee from the courts of Berlin Charlottenburg and Potsdam since 2012. Jesko is admitted as a specialist lawyer for insolvency law (Fachanwalt für Insolvenzrecht) and has ten years of experience in the fields of insolvency and restructuring matters. He advises national and international companies prior to...

Benedikt de Bruyn is a partner in the Restructuring and Insolvency Group of GT Restructuring in Germany. He focuses on insolvency administration and advises companies in distressed situations to reorganize their businesses. His many years of experience in corporate and tax law (admitted as specialist lawyer for tax law) allow him to cover both legal and commercial demands of corporate restructuring. Before joining GT Restructuring, Benedikt worked as a lawyer in the restructuring team of an i...

As a Patent Attorney Thomas L. Bittner focuses on technical intellectual property rights, especially patents and utility models, both with respect to filing and prosecution, as well as litigation. Also, he advises and represents his clients in opposition proceedings and revocation proceedings before the German authorities and courts, and before the European Patent Office. Thomas L. Bittner studied physics at the Humboldt-Universität of Berlin. After his PhD he worked as a scholarship hol...

Hendrik Muschal is a partner at fellaws, Berlin. As an acknowledged and experienced expert, he advises numerous German and international clients on all aspects of individual employment law, collective employment law in both the private and public sector, international employment law and criminal labor law. One of the focal points of Hendrik’s work regarding global HR management is innovative personnel cost optimization and data protection. Hendrik is strongly involved in international b...

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...

Sebastian Lutz-Bachmann is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Energy Law and Public Law. Sebastian, who practices law in Berlin, Germany, has been recognized since 2026. 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.

The founding partner of Knauer& Sören Schomburg advises national and international clients in the areas of commercial criminal law and tax criminal law, international criminal law, and extradition law. He has extensive experience in complex, frequently transnational internal investigations and with respect to search and seizure, especially raids involving data confiscation. He defends clients throughout Germany, in Europe and before the European Court of Justice (ECJ), and against IN...

Dr Hardy Fischer is a partner at POELLATH in Berlin. He advises on domestic and international tax law, corporate tax law, tax planning and tax structuring, refinancing. He is also well-known for his wide-ranging expertise in advising on cross-border structures and transactions, as well as for his tax advice on real estate transactions. Hardy regularly speaks and publishes on various tax law matters, inter alia as a lecturer at the University of Potsdam (Master Program Corporate and Tax Law) s...

Johann-Frederik Schuldt is a Shareholder in the Public Law Group in Germany and co-heads the ESG practice in Germany. Johann develops workable solutions in complex cases that require deep knowledge of regulatory law, commercial understanding and experience in governmental and political issues. He represents private and public companies, industry associations as well as national and international governments. Johann advises his clients on all questions of administrative, constitutional and EU ...

Prof Dr Thomas Höppner is a partner with Geradin Partners. Before joining Geradin Partners in 2025, Thomas was a partner at Hausfeld for ten years. With over 20 years of experience, Thomas has advised clients on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious antitrust and regulatory matters. He has assisted clients on numerous high-stake investigations, including some of the most complex cases in the tech, media and network industries. Thomas is also a trusted litigator on matters of E...