Susanne Mederer

Markus Engelhard is active in all fields of life sciences, pharmacology, and biotechnology, having a particular focus on therapeutic biomolecules and pharmaceutically active agents. His clients include start-up companies, small and medium-sized enterprises, multinational corporations, universities, and academic research institutions. He supports them in acquiring and enforcing intellectual property rights, building up patent portfolios, and representing them in opposition, invalidation, and i...

Mathias Becker has been a lawyer since 2007 and since 2016 a THEOPARK founding partner. He specializes in inheritance law, company and assets succession, corporate law and conflict resolution including mediation. For many years, he was member of a large, internationally active commercial law firm where he was an associate partner and head of the practice group for inheritance law and company succession. He speaks German and English.

Since 2025: Kantenwein Spatscheck Widmayer van Bevern & Partner Since 2018: Kantenwein • Zimmermann • Spatscheck & Partner, Partner 2015 – 2018: Kantenwein • Zimmermann • Fox • Kröck & Partner, Partner 2007 – 2015: Weil Gotshal & Manges, Munich office, Frankfurt office 2000 – 2007: Oppenhoff & Rädler, Linklaters, Berlin office, Frankfurt office 1996 – 2000: Lignitz, Berlin

Gernot Giesecke is a lawyer since 2005 and since 2016 one of the THEOPARK founding partners. He specializes in the areas of corporate law, M&A, conflict resolution, and company and assets succession. For many years, he was member of a large, internationally active commercial law firm where he was an associate partner and part of the renowned corporate practice group.

Dr Maximilian Haag, LL.M. is a partner at POELLATH in Munich. He primarily advises on national and international tax law, as well as on business successions and estate planning. His work includes the establishment, reorganization or dissolution of family-owned corporate structures, as well as matrimonial property law and advice on wills. Due to his great passion for international affairs and not least because of his own professional stays in the USA, Canada, and Israel, Maximilian often advis...

Ulrike Thole-Groll is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Criminal Defense and Criminal Tax Practice. Ulrike practices law in Munich, Germany Best Lawyers has recognized Ulrike Thole-Groll since 2023. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Ulrike Thole-Groll is held by other lawyers.

Lawyer since 2012 PhD in tax law (2013) Certified Specialist in Tax Law (2015) Certified Specialist in Criminal Law (2017)

Michael Kobler is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Intellectual Property Law. Michael Kobler’s main areas of practice involve advising German and international clients on patent litigation, drafting license agreements and other IP-related agreements, advising clients on matters relating to employee invention law and unfair competition law. He cooperates with the firm’s patent attorneys in proceedings relating to cross-border actions, enforcement of paten...

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. Christian Haupt is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Intellectual Property Law. Dr. Christian Haupt’s professional activities focus on the prosecution of both patents and utility models before the German and European patent offices as well as on defending and attacking patents and utility models in opposition proceedings before the competent patent offices, in particular in the fields of mechanical engineering (e.g. sports equipment and medical engineering)...