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Moritz Burwick is Partner at the Ebner Stolz office in Karlsruhe, Germany. He was admitted as a lawyer in 2011 and as a tax consultant in 2014 and is a member of the Corporate/M&A service line. Moritz Burwick advises clients in all areas of corporate law. His work focuses in particular on providing legal advice to medium-sized companies and their shareholders on M&A transactions, reorganisations (mergers, spin-offs, changes of legal form, collapse mergers) and start-up investments. Th...

Dr. Claudia Pleßke advises national and international companies on corporate and transactional law. In this connection, she advises companies mainly from the automotive, aerospace, pharmaceutical and food industries, on national and cross-border M&A transactions and in recent years increasingly on Chinese outbound transactions. Another focal point of her work is advice on formulating contracts for companies in all fields of commercial law. Claudia Pleßke is in charge of the Ch...

For more than 20 years, Dr. Hartmut Fischer has been advising companies on the planning and operation of commercial and industrial facilities. He acts on behalf of cities and municipalities as well as of investors, cooperating on projects involving urban land-use planning and planning permission procedures in order to realise commercial, residential and industrial districts. He designs development plans and drafts urban development contracts for building land development, municipal building l...

For more than 30 years, Rainer Dietmann has been advising and representing medium-sized and larger companies, capital market oriented companies and their owners as well as managing and supervisory bodies in matters relating to corporate law as well as during corporate and financing transactions. Rainer Dietmann has played a role in many national and international corporate transactions such as corporate acquisitions and sales as well as joint venture projects. Furthermore, he has acquired spe...

Roland Kläger studied law at the University of Freiburg and holds a doctor of laws (Dr. jur.) from the University of Tübingen. He worked as a research fellow at the University of Freiburg, as a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law of the University of Cambridge and practised dispute resolution in a big international law firm in Frankfurt. Roland Kläger holds various positions in the arbitration community and is e.g. co-chair of the arbitration and lit...

Antje Münch is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Intellectual Property Law. Antje, who practices law in Stuttgart, Germany, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Antje is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Ulrich Schnelle studied law at the universities of Passau, Geneva, Freiburg and Illinois. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Freiburg (Dr. jur.) and is an honorary professor of Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Sciences for economics and the environment. In addition, he is a member and chairman of various supervisory boards.

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

Gert Brandner studied international business law at the University of Freiburg and the University of Aberdeen. Whilst studying for his doctorate (Dr. jur.), Gert Brandner was an assistant at the Department of Business law of Professor Blaurock in Freiburg. Gert Brandner is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA) and of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS). He is a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Esslingen and at the Stuttgart Bar Association.

Before he joined our law firm, Dr. Norbert Hebeis headed the EU trademark department of a large US company (pharmaceuticals, consumer products) for ten years. He has been a partner of FGvW for 16 years and specializes in trademark and design litigation and prosecution, unfair competition litigation and counselling. His international key clients are Novartis (pharma), Wilkinson Sword (razors), erima (sportswear), Gloster (furniture) and Haufe-Lexware (publishing house).