Volker Nitschke

Lawyer and Insolvency Administrator, Accredited Specialist in Insolvency Law Partner

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...

Irene Schmid, born in Stuttgart in 1956, studied law in Berlin and Cambridge, England, where she obtained her Master of Laws in 1984. She has been working as a lawyer since 1988 – amongst others in major international law firms – and as a notary since 1996. From 2009 to 2012, she was President of the Berlin Bar Association. Irene Schmid is a partner with ZENK. Today, she focuses on advising national and international clients in all areas of real estate business law. She also assis...

Martin Seyfarth chairs the German Public Policy Practice and co-chairs the German Energy Industry Group. He advises national and international companies on transactions, privatizations and large strategic industry and branch projects. With his extensive experience and knowledge, Mr. Seyfarth has successfully represented clients in a variety of complex deals in the corporate sector. Mr. Seyfarth has been the managing partner of the Berlin office since 2009.

Markus Appel is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Environmental Law, Public Finance Law and Public Law. Markus practices law in Berlin, Germany Best Lawyers has recognized Markus Appel since 2014. 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 Markus Appel is held by other lawyers.

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...

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...

Fabian Winters is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Public Law and Public Private Partnership. Fabian practices law in Berlin, Germany Best Lawyers has recognized Fabian Winters since 2025. 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 Fabian Winters is held by other lawyers.

Jan Lindner-Figura specialises in private real estate law. One of his areas of specialisation is providing comprehensive advice to national and international project developers, and other investors, in relation to the sale, acquisition, development and/or marketing of property and complex real estate projects. In particular, he works with all types of real estate transactions, developer and general contractor agreements, and rental and leasing agreements. In recent years he has worked primari...

Dr Dominik Greinacher is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Berlin office and a member of the Corporate / M&A practice group. His area of activity comprises advice on energy law and the energy industry. He particularly advises his clients on public energy law issues, including planning law and the law of expropriation, as well as on emission trading matters. He further advises and represents his clients on energy-related state aid law before the EU institutions. Dr Greinacher also provides leg...