Lawyers in Germany

Dominik Stühler

Partner

Dechert LLP

Dominik Thomer

Dr. Dominik Thomer is a Partner in Dentons’ Dusseldorf office. He is a member of the Tax and Real Estate practice and focuses on tax issues arising from national and international mergers and acquisitions and aspects of domestic and international transactions. Dominik has extensive experience in real estate and leasing funds as well as in real estate transactions and tax litigation matters. He also represents clients in preliminary investigations by tax investigators and prosecution authorities in respect of suspected fiscal offences.

Dentons

Dominik Wegener

Linklaters

Dominique Dupuis-Latour

Attorney-at-Law (Avocat), Partner BARDEHLE PAGENBERG SAS SPE Dominique Dupuis-Latour's main areas of practice include intellectual property law, particularly patent prosecution, enforcement of IP rights, licensing, auditing of patent portfolios, representation in patent infringement and nullity proceedings before the courts, as well as opposition and appeal proceedings at the European and French Patent Offices. His technical fields of expertise include telecommunications, wireless appliances, software, medical devices, health products, and automotive, aerospace and weapons technology. As a qualified French attorney-at-law, Dominique Dupuis-Latour also has extensive experience in specific French proceedings, particularly in French discovery proceedings ('saisie-contrefaçon'). He frequently cooperates with attorneys abroad and coordinates complex parallel litigation proceedings in various European countries.

Bardehle Pagenberg

Dominique Gobert

Partner | German and European Patent Attorney

Zimmermann & Partner Patentanwälte mbB

Doreen König

Doreen König focuses on advising companies, investors and banks in all areas of private Real Estate Law, mainly in the context of Real Estate transactions and developments as well as the conclusion of lease agreements.

Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH

Dorothea Hofer

Managing Partner

Prüfer & Partner

Douglas Winter

Of Counsel - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Dr. Johannes Baur

Dr Johannes Baur is an Senior Associate in Fieldfisher´s Hamburg office and advises clients on the full spectrum of IT- and data-related regulation. He routinely guides clients through data protection and data-usage law – from international data-transfer strategies to complex data-sharing agreements and data monetisation models, cybersecurity compliance and incident response and AI regulation and governance. He is helping organisations align products and internal processes with the AI Act and related standards, platform regulation, including risk assessments, transparency obligations and content-moderation frameworks. Over the past several years he has acted for both national and international clients in data-driven industries, with a particular focus on SaaS, healthcare, financial-services and advertising technology sector. His doctoral thesis on Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (2021) deals with legal implications of distributed ledger technology, such as blockchain.

Fieldfisher

Dustin Schwerdtfeger

Partner Dustin Schwerdtfeger advises corporate clients, venture capitalists, banks and other financial institutions on banking and finance matters, in particular on credit financing. Dustin has special knowledge of financing in association with real estate and corporate acquisitions. He has extensive experience in the following areas: Real estate financing (within a country and across borders, individual property and portfolio transactions) Project and project development financing Acquisition financing Corporate financing Venture Capital Financing For further details of Dustin's biography, please view McDermott website here.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Eckhard Ratjen

Attorney at Law (Germany) Certified IP Lawyer

Boehmert & Boehmert

Eike Bicker

Eike is one of the leading lawyers on corporate governance & compliance in Germany. He has particular experience in handling high-profile corporate governance & compliance matters, cross-border investigations, related litigation as well as corporate defence. Eike also regularly advises on the design of compliance programs, their effective implementation and improvement. His clients have included global companies, international investment funds, management boards, supervisory boards and regulators. Eike heads the compliance & investigations practice of Gleiss Lutz.

Gleiss Lutz

Eike Neugebauer

DLA Piper

Elard Schenck zu Schweinsberg

PARTNER, Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative Elard has a particular emphasis on the technical fields of engineering, including manufacturing and production technologies as well as automotive, material science, medical technology, diagnostic apparatuses and physics. Elard is regularly involved in interdisciplinary teams and, in particular, often cooperates with partners from the Biology & Biotechnology Department both for prosecution and opposition cases relating to inventions at the interface between mechanics/physics/engineering/IT and biology/biochemistry. Elard provides clients with practical and strategic advice in all stages and matters of German, European and global patent portfolios. In addition to patent prosecution, Elard has extensive and valuable experience in providing opinion work and conducting due diligences as well as in opposition, cancellation, invalidation and patent infringement cases before the various authorities such as the German and European Patent Office, the Federal German Patent Court, the Federal Supreme Court as well as various Lower and Upper District Courts. He holds lectures, in Germany and abroad, on intellectual property protection and advises start-ups, universities, SME's as well as globally leading companies in IP matters. Elard was a member in the patent attorneys' examining commission for many years.

Vossius & Partner

Elisa in den Birken, LL.M.

Associate

HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER

Elisabeth Kohoutek

Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH

Elisabeth Noltenius

Elisabeth Noltenius is a Partner in Fieldfisher's Berlin office and advises on media, online platforms and digital business. In Media and Entertainment Law, she advises clients along the entire value chain, from financing to the utilization of productions, with many years of experience in drafting and negotiating contracts. She assists providers of entertainment offerings in the legal structuring of their business models, from the modification of utilisation concepts to their revenue streams. She also specialises in technological consulting for international tech companies and online platforms. She advises online platforms on the further development and design of their business models, project development and contract design as well as on the promotion of their offerings. A particular focus of her work is in the Digital Healthcare sector, where she supports companies in developing innovative solutions and implementing them in a legally compliant manner. Her expertise covers data protection, general terms and conditions, consumer protection, compliance, advertising and competition law, contract law and regulatory requirements. She is listed in the Handelsblatt in cooperation with Best Lawyers among Germany's best lawyers 2020-2023 as a recommended lawyer in the category "Technology Law". She is also recommended in The Legal 500: Germany and The Legal 500: EMEA 2022-2024 in the categories "Information Technology: Data Protection" (2022-2024), "Information Technology: Information Technology and Digitalisation" (2022-2024) and "Information Technology: IT Transactions and Outsourcing" (2022-2024).

Fieldfisher

Elisaweta Sannwald-Rabovskaja

Elisaweta Sannwald-Rabovskaja is an Associate in Fieldfisher's Frankfurt am Main office and advises on all aspects of Financial Law. Her work includes advising national and international credit institutions as well as companies from the financial and payment services sector on regulatory issues.

Fieldfisher

Emanuel Ballo

DLA Piper

Eric Wagner

Eric specialises in the area of commercial law including product liability, as well as in e-commerce, autonomous driving, connectivity and Industry 4.0. He advises clients in this area on drafting contracts and also represents them in litigious proceedings (esp. on disputes arising from contracts, on the enforcement of and the defence against liability and recourse claims, the conduct of class action-type lawsuits as well as on insolvency law disputes) before German courts and international arbitration tribunals. When it comes to drafting contracts, Eric is among the leading lawyers in Germany and regularly advises clients on the structuring of contracts for – and the negotiation and implementation of – important projects with suppliers, customers and distribution and cooperation partners. He is also very active in the area of ESG and, in particular, the developments surrounding the Act on Corporate Due Diligence in Supply Chains, where he advises a number of clients on setting up suitable compliance systems and on drafting contracts. Furthermore, Eric is also one of the world’s leading experts in the area of product liability law. He advises clients on the development of risk avoidance strategies and also has extensive expertise and experience in dealing with crisis situations as well as potential recall scenarios at clients.

Gleiss Lutz

Eva Dörner

Partner German Patent Attorney European Patent Attorney UPC Representative Chemist

Maiwald GmbH

Eva Ehlich

Partner German Patent Attorney European Patent Attorney UPC Representative Chemist

Maiwald GmbH

Eva Kasprowicz

Eva Kasprowicz is a Counsel in Fieldfisher´s Hamburg office and advises on Data Protection, Competition Law, IT Law and Consumer Protection. She develops strategic and pragmatic legal advice for data-driven business models and has several years of experience advising international companies, especially from the digital industry (AdTech, social media, cloud). Her particular expertise lies in the areas of ad tech, digital marketing and international data transfers. Her professional experience includes: Working with the product teams to develop creative solutions to legal issues Practical legal advice on go-to-market strategies Data protection assessment of business models and drafting of necessary compliance documentation The monitoring of supervisory procedures, both at national and EU level Participation in extrajudicial and judicial proceedings related to data protection Management of a large number of GDPR compliance projects Review and negotiation of licensing, SaaS and IT project contracts, both for private sector companies and in the context of public tenders Her consulting work for companies ranges from start-ups to global advertising platforms to multinational manufacturers of communication technologies.

Fieldfisher

Eva Koch

Eva is specialised in public law. Her practice focus is on subsidies and state aid, environmental law as well as matters related to foreign trade and customs law. In addition, Eva advises on health law.

Gleiss Lutz