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Carsten Laschet is a lawyer and managing Partner of Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner. His practice focuses on liability and insurance law. He specialises in contract law, product liability law, directors' and officers' liability as well as Insurance Law. Carsten Laschet is a lecturer in teaching specialist insurance lawyers and a member of the Cologne Legal Association (Kölner Juristische Gesellschaft), the German Bar Association’s Working Group on Insurance Law (ARGE Ve...

Since 2009, Simone Zündorf has specialised in construction and architectural law as well as real estate law. She advises and represents clients in services contract law, both in and out of court, and conducts mediation proceedings. Zündorf also advises numerous small and medium-sized companies on commercial law matters and regularly provides legal training for clients, with a focus on contract drafting. She is based in Düsseldorf.

Martin Hohgardt is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Intellectual Property Law. Martin Hohgardt’s main areas of practice involve patent prosecution, patent nullity proceedings, opposition proceedings and patent litigation in various technical fields. His technical fields include telecommunications, electrical engineering, special-purpose machinery manufacture, computer-implemented inventions, ciphering systems and medical devices. Martin Hohgardt is responsible...

Tobias Lenz is a lawyer and partner at Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner. In addition, he is a professor for national and international commercial law at the Rhineland University of Applied Sciences (Rheinische Fachhochschule) in Cologne and the director of the Institute for Liability and Insurance Law (Institut für Haftungs- und Versicherungsrecht). Tobias’ main focus lies on product liability and insurance law, liability of managing directors and execute board members, ...

Carsten Grave is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Competition / Antitrust Law and Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice. Carsten practices law in Cologne, Germany Best Lawyers has recognized Carsten Grave since 2009. 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 Carsten Grave is held by other lawyers.

Born in 1959 Trained and worked as police officer in North Rhine-Westphalia, 1979 - 1983 Legal studies and clerkship at Bielefeld University State bar exam and bar admission in 1989 Worked in the legal department of Dr. Oetker Nahrungsmittel KG, Bielefeld, 1990 - 1991 With the firm since 1992 Certified Specialized Attorney in Administrative Law since 1993 Doctor of Laws (Dr. jur.) 1994 under Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Papier Visiting lecturer at the University of Rostock since 2002 Honorary P...

Helmut Balthasar is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Restructuring and Insolvency Law. Helmut practices law in Cologne, Germany Best Lawyers has recognized Helmut Balthasar since 2010. 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 Helmut Balthasar is held by other lawyers.

David Kipping, LL.M., Maître en droit, is a lawyer and partner at Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner and a Certified Specialist in intellectual property law. He also holds an LL.M degree from the universities of Cologne and Paris and a Maître en droit degree from Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne. David Kipping’s main focus lies on intellectual property law, trademarks and designs, unfair competition and advertising law, patent law, litigation, e-commerce law and li...

Philipp-Gerald Hammes is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Real Estate Law. Philipp-Gerald practices law in Düsseldorf, Germany Best Lawyers has recognized Philipp-Gerald Hammes since 2026. 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 Philipp-Gerald Hammes is held by other lawyers.

Alexa Ningelgen is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Environmental Law and Public Law. Alexa practices law in Düsseldorf, Germany Best Lawyers has recognized Alexa Ningelgen since 2027. 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 Alexa Ningelgen is held by other lawyers.