Ulrich Mair

Stephan Baur studied at the universities of Passau, Munich and Freiburg, where he also took his doctorate (Dr. jur.). He is currently a lecturer in private business law at the distance learning university HFH Hamburg. In addition, he is a member of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR) and of supervisory boards of commercial companies.

Sebastian Vollmer studied at the University of Freiburg. After completing his legal training in Stuttgart, he worked in the real estate practice of a major international law firm, where he was awarded his doctorate.

Dr. Christina Eschenfelder’s area of expertise is corporate law. She advises listed and unlisted companies and their supervisory board and managing board members primarily on stock corporation and corporate law as well as matters pertaining to corporate governance. Christina Eschenfelder provides guidance to investors and corporations during financing processes and advises nationally as well as internationally operating companies on structuring and restructuring measures as well as duri...

Dr Frank Jungfleisch is a lawyer and partner at the Freiburg office of Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner. His focus is on IT law, where he advises software manufacturers and other IT companies and online agencies on IT projects, software, licence and support and distribution contracts. He further advises companies on M&A transactions, especially in relation with IT matters. He is a member of the German Bar Association’s Working Group on IT Law as well as on Corporate and C...

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...

Dr Werner Born studied law at Heidelberg University. After completing his doctorate in Heidelberg, he began working as a lawyer with a focus on family businesses. In 2010 he made partner at RITTERSHAUS where he is a member of the Practice Group dedicated to Entrepreneurial Families & Private Clients consisting of seventeen lawyers and three notaries. In 2017, they took second place for “Exzellenz in Mediation und Konfliktmanagement” (Excellence in Mediation and Conflict Manage...

Timo Alte studied law at the University of Würzburg where he also obtained his doctorate (Dr. jur.). He undertook his legal training in Düsseldorf and also a legal internship in Sydney/Australia. Timo Alte lectures trainee lawyers on corporate law for the Stuttgart Bar Association, is a member of the Working Group on Commercial and Corporate Law of the German Bar Association (DAV) and of the Corporate Law Association (VGR).

Dr Lukas Kalkbrenner has been working as a lawyer in our Freiburg office since 2016 and became a partner in 2022. He primarily advises clients on data and telemedia law, particularly in the area of data protection in healthcare. Other areas of focus in his practice include privacy litigation, advertising law with a focus on e-commerce, unfair competition law, copyright and know-how law, and intellectual property law.

Bettina Backes studied at the University of Bonn. This was followed by a long-term period of employment in the publishing industry and the intensification of her specialization in a law firm focused on media law and several years as a partner in a trans-regional and internationally-oriented commercial law firm in Stuttgart. Alongside her voluntary involvement in various cultural and educational institutions, she is a (deputy) judge at the Constitutional Court of Baden-Württemberg and mem...

Dr. Martin Schmidhuber primarily advises clients in intellectual property matters. His particular expertise is in the area of trademark and labelling law. In cooperation with a worldwide network of law firms, his work focuses on the strategic management of national and international trademark portfolios and their legal representation (litigation). In addition, Martin Schmidhuber offers his clients, in particular companies from the life sciences, information technologies, E-commerce, food and ...