Lawyers in Germany

Christian Rolf

Dr. Christian Rolf focuses his practice on employment, labor, civil and commercial law, executive compensation and benefits schemes and human resources (HR) compliance and data privacy issues. He also has extensive experience in employment law-related matters in M&A and private equity transactions, restructuring scenarios and complex business litigation.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Christian Rybak

Partner/Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig Germany

Christian Sandweg

PARTNER, German and European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative Dr. Sandweg supports our clients and attorneys in the field of intellectual property, in particular patent prosecution, opposition, invalidation and patent infringement cases.

Vossius & Partner

Christian Schede

Christian Schede is Co-Chair of the firm's global Real Estate Practice of Greenberg Traurig and Founding Chairman Germany. He focuses on complex M&A transactions in real estate, infrastructure and related financings as well as project developments. Christian's experience covers all real estate asset classes as well as projects in the energy and transportation sectors. His expertise includes advising on joint ventures, investment management platforms, and restructuring of property and infrastructure investments. Christian represents major national and international institutional investors, private equity funds, real estate companies and infrastructure funds as well as financiers, developers, investment managers and government bodies. Christian is recognized by several legal directories as a leading lawyer in his field, ranked Tier 1 for Real Estate and among the leading senior partners in the German real estate market. He was awarded “Lawyer of the Year” for Real Estate Law by Handelsblatt / Best Lawyers several times (most recently: 2022). Christian is perceived as “one of the strongest real estate lawyers in the German market” (client, Chambers and Partners Europe, 2022), a “top-dealmaker” and “leading person in the real estate industry” with “high emotional intelligence for both situations and people” (The Legal 500, 2021). Christian frequently speaks at leading real estate industry events. Prior to Greenberg Traurig, Christian used to be Managing Partner at Olswang and was a Partner in the Real Estate Group at Freshfields. Capabilities Real Estate | Real Estate Funds | Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) | Mergers & Acquisitions | Private Equity Real Estate | Operations | Retail | Infrastructure | Real Estate Finance | Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) | Restructuring & Special Situations | Real Estate Leasing | Institutional Investors Admissions Germany

Greenberg Traurig Germany

Christian Schefold

Dr. Christian Schefold, LL.M., is a Partner in the Berlin office of Dentons, a member of the Corporate practice and co-heading the German Compliance practice. He focuses on compliance, corporate and data protection law. Christian headed the compliance consultation department at Daimler AG where he was co-responsible for setting up a compliance network within the Daimler group worldwide. Prior to this task, he worked several years as senior counsel with Daimler Financial Services AG being responsible inter alia for IP, IT & DP law, international commercial law, financing, M&A and public private partnerships (namely for the legal set-up of the German motorway tolling system Toll Collect). He is constantly practicing data protection law since 1996. Christian’s favorites are setting up compliance management systems (CMS), especially Data Protection CMS as well as Data Transfer Regimes for international corporations to fulfill GDPR requirements.

Dentons

Christian Schlörb

PARTNER, German and European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative In his work as a patent attorney he focuses on grant, opposition and nullity proceedings before the European Patent Office, the German Patent and Trademark Office and the German Federal Patent Court. Dr. Schlörb has experience in patent litigation at German infringement courts and in compiling validity and freedom-to-operate expert opinions. His clients are both small and medium-sized companies and research institutions located in Germany and leading global companies, in particular in the pharmaceutical and diagnostics industries.

Vossius & Partner

Christian Schmitt

Linklaters

Christian Schneider

DLA Piper

Christian Schoop

DLA Piper

Christian Schultz, LL.M. (King´s College London)

Christian Schultz, LL.M. (King's College London) is a Partner in the Fieldfisher offices in Hamburg and Munich and advises on Tech Litigation and software Copyright Law. He is a certified expert in IT law and a specialist for technology-related disputes. As a litigator, he advises companies in disputes on digital business models, software and the use of data. He assists online platforms, software providers and companies operating in regulated digital markets both in and out of court, for example in contentious IT projects, data protection disputes or the legal management of IT security incidents. These disputes often touch on the very core of his clients’ business models. Outside the courtroom, Christian Schultz advises companies on the implementation of increasingly complex EU digital regulations, including the Digital Services Act, the Data Act and new requirements under consumer law. His direct experience in court proceedings provides particular added value for his clients: our advice focuses on areas where compliance with these regulations leads to conflicts in practice and is enforced through the courts – particularly in the form of strategic actions brought by consumer organisations or class action plaintiffs.

Fieldfisher

Christian Schäflein

Partner German Patent Attorney European Patent Attorney UPC Representative Physicist

Maiwald GmbH

Christian Steinle

Christian has considerable experience in European and international antitrust law. He focuses on cartel cases as well as private antitrust litigation, merger control, online and distribution antitrust law, antitrust compliance programme and internal investigations.

Gleiss Lutz

Christian Storck

Linklaters

Christian Tappeiner

Partner

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Christian Theissen

Partner

White & Case LLP

Christian Vocke

Dr. Christian Vocke is a partner of the Corporate/M&A Practice Group in the Firm’s Frankfurt office. He has numerous years of experience in virtually all areas of corporate law. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Dr. Vocke worked for one of the leading German law firms. In 2011/2012, he was seconded to Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes) in Toronto. Christian Vocke is ranked by JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien, Legal 500 and by The Best Lawyers in Germany for corporate law. Christian focuses his practice on corporate law matters, including stock corporation law, corporate group law, corporate reorganizations, corporate governance structures and securities trading law. He advises on joint ventures as well as public and private M&A transactions.

Baker McKenzie

Christian Von Hammerstein

Partner

Raue

Christian Walz

Lawyer Partner

Annerton

Christian Wirth

Partner

White & Case LLP

Christian Zanner

Prof. Zanner advises principals on the compilation of application and purchasing conditions, acts as an advisor during complex construction projects when it comes to developing performance-based tendering concepts and drafting contracts and also upon conclusion of the contract when it comes to enforcing and defending changes. Furthermore, he advises principals during the negotiation of contracts, as well as during construction on all issues arising during the implementation of the construction project. He prepares expert opinions on complex building law issues and has many years of experience in working with, and heading, legal project teams. Prof. Zanner additionally works as a conciliator and as an arbitrator.

Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH

Christian Zschocke

Managing Morgan Lewis’s Corporate and Business Transactions (CBT) practice in Frankfurt since 1997, Christian Zschocke counsels clients on public takeovers, and on European and German antitrust law. He represents clients in large takeover transactions on the side of bidders, financial investors, or target companies. Before joining Morgan Lewis, he served clients of another international New York–based law firm in London, Brussels, and Frankfurt, and worked for law firms in Paris, Hamburg, Barcelona, and Buenos Aires. For more information, view Joachim’s biography at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/czschocke

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Christian-Leopold Zapp

PARTNER, Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-Law), UPC Representative Admitted as an attorney-at-law, Christian-Leopold consults national and international clients in the fields of patent and utility models, in particular with respect to infringement and licensing matters. Christian-Leopold primarily focuses on conducting national and cross-border litigation proceedings and has extensive experience in the fields of engineering, medical technology and life sciences. He further regularly advises universities regarding questions of exploitation of generated IP by way of cooperations, licensing and the foundation of spin-off companies. Christian-Leopold Zapp studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich with a special focus on the field of competition law, Intellectual Property and entertainment law. He passed both legal state exams in 2010 and 2013 in Munich. In 2019, Christian-Leopold gained particular experience regarding cross-border litigation during a secondment with a renowned law firm in London, having a specialization on Intellectual Property.

Vossius & Partner

Christiane Freytag

Christiane advises on public law. She has particular expertise in public procurement, environmental law, product (safety) law and public construction and planning. She regularly advises on all matters relating product compliance and product recalls. Furthermore, she advises on privatisations/public private partnerships and on matters concerning freedom of information.

Gleiss Lutz

Christiane Zedelius

Dr. Christiane Zedelius is a Partner in Dentons’ Munich office. She has many years of experience in the areas of distribution and commercial law, with a special focus on advising consumer goods companies in the development of international multichannel systems, including online distribution. Her practice includes franchise, agency and licensing agreements as well as sourcing and quality agreements. Christiane Zedelius has considerable experience in setting up selective distribution systems for luxury brands, including the management of European brands in Asia.

Dentons