Lawyers in Germany

Alexander Wolff

Alexander Wolff heads the Labor Law Practice Group in the Firm’s Berlin office. He co-authored the German section of Baker McKenzie’s Worldwide Guide to Termination, Employment Discrimination, and Workplace Harassment Laws and Global Employer. He is also a regular contributor to other labor law journals, and is a frequent speaker on employment law issues in seminars and conferences. Dr. Wolff routinely advises clients on employment matters relating to reorganizations and restructurings, transfer of businesses (TUPE), negotiations with works councils and unions, as well as general employment advice. He also advises on executive compensation and employee benefits, mass dismissals and employment litigation. In addition, he provides sound counsel on issues arising from data protection and discrimination, pension funds and harassment issues. He also handles employment litigation, employer-work council relations and the mandatory representation of employees in companies’ supervisory boards.

Baker McKenzie

Alexander Zitzl

Linklaters

Alexandra Diehl

Alexandra Diehl is a Litigation & Dispute Resolution partner in our Frankfurt office. She is recognised for her experience in collective redress, advising on consumer and mass-tort claims. Her practice also focuses on commercial and investment arbitration (DIS, ICC, ICSID, SCC and ad hoc). She has been developing an active arbitrator practice. Alexandra represents German and multinational clients throughout all stages of complex disputes of high reputational significance, particularly relating to post-M&A, international investment law, intellectual property and product liability. Alexandra also regularly advises clients on issues relating to private international law and cross-border taking of evidence. Her extensive experience in class actions and mass claims spans key sectors such healthcare, life sciences and technology.

Clifford Chance

Alexandra Weis

Partner

King & Spalding LLP

Alexandra von Bismarck

Prof. Dr Alexandra von Bismarck is a Partner in Fieldfisher's Hamburg office and advises on all intellectual property rights, in particular in the areas of Trademark and Design Law, as well as Copyright and Competition Law. She advises national and international companies from a wide range of sectors. Her particular expertise lies in the field of Intellectual Property Law with a focus on Trademark and Design Law as well as Competition Law. In the course of assisting start-ups as well as global brand portfolios, she supports her clients in finding trademarks, designs and company names, conduct corresponding availability searches and advises on the development of application strategies as well as on the securing, exploitation and enforcement of IP rights in Germany, the EU and worldwide. She advises on agreements on the delimitation of prior rights, on licensing as well as on purchase and merchandising agreements and regularly represents national and international companies in proceedings before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in Alicante, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) and in appeal proceedings before the Federal Patent Court (BPatG) in Munich, as well as in proceedings before German courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) in trade mark, design and competition law actions. Her expertise is regularly mentioned in JUVE, Who's Who Legal Trade Marks, Best Lawyers/Handelsblatt, Chambers Europe and Chambers Global.

Fieldfisher

Aliki Busse

Partner Attorney-at-Law Specialist Lawyer for Intellectual Property and copyright law

Maiwald GmbH

Alina Affeld

Alina Affeld focuses her practice on real estate law. In addition, she gained valuable corporate, M&A and real estate experience through several legal traineeships at law firms in Düsseldorf and London including McDermott. She also worked for the German Embassy of Myanmar. During her internships, Alina Affeld worked for the German Federal Cartel Office and in the corporate law department of a law firm in Düsseldorf.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Alina Kaufmann

Linklaters

Alina Roch

Alina Roch is a Senior Associate in Fieldfisher's Munich office and advises on all areas of Employment Law. She represents clients both in and out of court in all matters of individual and collective Employment Law. In addition, she offers tailor-made lectures and training in Labour Law and Labour Migration Law for our clients, their managers and HR departments.

Fieldfisher

Amelie Meider, LL.M. (USYD)

Amelie Meider, LL.M. (USYD) is a Counsel in Fieldfisher´s Munich office and advises on Litigation, both out of court and before state courts or arbitration tribunals. A particular focus of her practice is on contract and corporate disputes. She advises and represents clients not only in (arbitration) court proceedings, but also in other dispute resolution options such as mediation or settlement. Our clients are national and international companies and groups from various industries as well as shareholders and entrepreneurs. She always finds solutions for our clients that are in line with their interests and makes economic sense by tackling complex issues in an efficient, structured and committed manner.

Fieldfisher

Anahita Thoms

Anahita Thoms heads Baker McKenzie's International Trade Practice in Germany and is a member of our EMEA Steering Committee for Investigations, Compliance & Ethics. Anahita is Global Lead Sustainability Partner for our Industrials, Manufacturing and Transportation Industry Group. She serves as an Advisory Board Member in profit and non-profit organizations, such as Atlantik-Brücke, and is an elected National Committee Member at UNICEF Germany. She has served for three consecutive terms as the ABA Co-chair of the Export Controls and Economic Sanctions Committee and as the ABA Vice-Chair of the International Human Rights Committee. Anahita has also been an Advisory Board Member (Beirätin) of the Sustainable Finance Advisory Council of the German Government. Anahita has won various accolades for her work, including 100 Most Influential Women in German Business (manager magazin), Top Lawyer (Wirtschaftswoche), Winner of the Strive Awards in the category Sustainability, Pioneer in the area of sustainability (Juve), International Trade Lawyer of the Year (Germany) 2020 ILO Client Choice Awards, Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, Capital 40 under 40, International Trade Lawyer of the Year (New York) 2016 ILO Client Choice Awards. In 2023, Handelsblatt recognized her as one of Germany’s Dealmaker and “most sought after advisors of the country” in the field of sustainability. Anahita focuses her practice on global investigations and white-collar crime proceedings before German authorities and courts. She has significant experience advising on internal compliance programs, accompanying internal and external investigations and self-disclosures, inter alia in cases of breaches of sanctions, export control, human rights, data protection and foreign investment review, closely collaborating with the competent authorities.

Baker McKenzie

Andrea Lasar

Partner German Patent Attorney European Patent Attorney UPC Representative Biologist

Maiwald GmbH

Andrea Leufgen

Andrea is the Head of Dispute Resolution at Gleiss Lutz. She represents clients in complex litigation proceedings, often cross-border cases, and in national and international arbitration proceedings. She also acts as arbitrator. She focuses on disputes related to commercial agreements, M&A transactions, joint ventures, banking & finance and has large expertise in all kinds of collective proceedings. She is member of the sector group Energy & Infrastructure.

Gleiss Lutz

Andrea Schmoll

Dr. Andrea Schmoll is a partner in our IP team. She advises national and international clients on all matters of intellectual property law with a particular focus on the commercialisation of IP rights. Andrea has longstanding experience in advising and representing national and international clients on technology transfer, in particular as regards the in- and out-licensing of IP Rights as well as research and development collaborations and antitrust issues. Among her further areas of expertise are trademark and unfair competition law. A special focus of her activity is the field of employee invention law. She has extensive experience with the IP-aspects of M&A transactions.

Osborne Clarke GmbH & Co. KG

Andreas Berberich

Dr. Andreas Berberich is a Partner in the Munich office. He is a member of the Tax practice. He focuses on tax advice in connection with mergers and acquisitions, asset finance and tax compliance-related issues. Andreas has extensive experience in the insurance and financial institutions sector as well as in the real estate and transport sector (in particular aviation). He also represents clients in connection with tax audits and tax court proceedings. Andreas regularly publishes on domestic and international tax law matters. Prior to joining Dentons, he worked as senior associate at another international law firm. Andreas has gained his doctorate on European tax law issues. Andreas is admitted in Germany as lawyer and certified tax advisor.

Dentons

Andreas Blunk

Dr Andreas Blunk provides expert advice in M&A for both buyers and sellers. Besides domestic transactions, he specialises in cross-border projects. As a civil-law notary, Andreas Blunk deals with contract drafting and the official recording of share purchase agreements, real property transactions, the formation and restructuring of companies, and deeds for private persons.

Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH

Andreas Böhme

Partner

King & Spalding LLP

Andreas Dehio

Linklaters

Andreas Driver, LL.M. (Georgetown University)

Dr Andreas Driver, LL.M. (Georgetown University) is a Partner in Fieldfisher´s Munich office and advises on Merges & Acquisitions (M&A) and Private Equity as well as Banking and Finance Law. A particular focus of his advice in this regard is on transactions such as corporate acquisitions, financings and restructurings, as well as advising companies and investors in the FinTech and Life Science sectors. In addition to more than 20 years of experience in advising on private equity transactions and financings, he brings expertise in Banking and FinTech as a long-standing General Counsel of a FinTech bank. Recently, he has advised Intersect ENT and ResMed on acquisitions and disposals in the Life Science sector and FinTech companies on financing rounds. He also advised Vivid Money on its market launch in Germany and Europe and various other FinTechs on regulatory and other strategic issues.

Fieldfisher

Andreas Eisele

Partner German Patent Attorney European Patent Attorney UPC Representative Physicist

Maiwald GmbH

Andreas Füchsel

DLA Piper

Andreas Heiseke

PARTNER, German and European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative Dr. Heiseke has many years of experience and extensive expertise in post-grant proceedings before the EPO and regularly acts as representative for our clients in opposition and appeal proceedings. Furthermore, Dr. Heiseke has comprehensive experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications (filing- and grant-proceedings) and preparing validity and freedom-to-operate expert opinions. Dr. Heiseke represents our clients in all kinds of innovations in the field of life sciences. Besides globally leading pharmaceutical companies, also small and medium-sized companies and universities are among Dr. Heiseke’s clients. For instance, Dr. Heiseke represents one of our clients in various opposition and appeal proceedings concerning the CRISPR-Cas technology.

Vossius & Partner

Andreas Intelmann

DLA Piper

Andreas Kleinschmidt

Partner

White & Case LLP