Lawyers in Germany

Patrick Schulz

Patrick advises companies, investors, sponsors and secured and unsecured creditors on financial and operational restructurings both outside and in the context of insolvency proceedings. He focuses on cross-border and multinational restructurings and distressed transactions, in particular in cases involving complex financing structures. He also advises on all aspects of German insolvency and restructuring law. Furthermore, he taught at King’s College London and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens as visiting lecturer.

Clifford Chance

Patrick Viktor Born

Dr Patrick Viktor Born is an Associate in Fieldfisher's Munich office and advises on all legal issues in the area of Commercial/Commercial Contract Law. His advice covers the drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts along the supply chain (purchasing, sales, logistics, production and distribution) as well as related legal issues of operational business, including consumer protection aspects. Our clients include national and international companies, primarily in the Automotive, Chemicals and Industrial Goods sectors.

Fieldfisher

Patrick Wilkening

Patrick Wilkening is a partner in the German Information Technology and Intellectual Property Group and is based in Baker McKenzie‘s Düsseldorf office. Prior to joining the Firm in the fall of 2022, Patrick practiced in the IT/IP group of a leading German commercial law firm for almost 14 years, including one year on secondment to the technology transactions group of a prominent Wall Street law firm. He studied law at the University in Passau and was admitted to the German Bar in 2008. Patrick's practice focuses on complex IT/IP-related contracts and projects as well as comprehensive advice on IT and IP topics arising in M&A transactions, joint ventures, IPOs, spin-offs and outsourcing deals. Patrick also works with clients on analyzing and introducing new business models. Patrick has extensive experience in drafting, negotiating and implementing complex commercial agreements, including license agreements, research and development agreements, service agreements, collaboration agreements, outsourcing agreements as well as contract manufacturing and distribution agreements. Patrick regularly supports clients in a broad range of industries such as life sciences, automotive, mechanical and plant engineering, software/IT, and private equity.

Baker McKenzie

Paul Gooren

Paul Gooren advises corporate and other clients on all matters pertaining to individual and collective employment law, inter alia, the drafting of employment contracts, dismissals, industrial action, co-determination, compliance, works constitution law, and collective bargaining agreements. In addition to providing legal advice, he also acts as a litigator before labour and civil courts. Furthermore, he has authored various specialist publications.

Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH

Paul H. Assies

Attorney at Law | Partner Specialist lawyer for banking and capital market law

CBH Rechtsanwälte

Paul Kretschmar

PARTNER, Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-Law), Certified IP Lawyer His areas of practice include litigation and prosecution of trademark and design rights, border measures, as well as unfair competition proceedings. Paul's main focus is the enforcement of brands and designs against unauthorized imitation and unfair exploitation. Besides being an experienced litigator, Paul also advises on global trademark and design filing strategies, as well as contractual issues – in particular, IP license agreements. Among the longstanding clients that he advises on a regular basis are leading companies from various sectors, such as electronics, sports and fashion, food, pharmaceutical, transportation and the service industry. He publishes essays in legal journals and is a co-author of various legal commentaries, such as the Practitioner's Handbooks on Trademark and Design Law. Paul Kretschmar regularly lectures on various IP topics for the Practicing Law Institute (PLI) San Francisco or the Japanese Intellectual Property Association (JIPA), among others.

Vossius & Partner

Paul Raijmakers

Associate

HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER

Paul Szynka

Attorney at Law

CBH Rechtsanwälte

Peter Braun

Dr. Peter Braun is a partner in the Dentons’ Frankfurt office and Co-Head of the German Public Procurement group. He specializes in national and international matters of public procurement law, privatizations, public private partnerships (PPP) and compliance. He regularly advises public sector authorities, such as federal agencies and municipalities, in structuring complex public acquisition processes, predominantly in the area of IT. He is also experienced in litigating procurement matters on behalf of public sector institutions or private sector companies in front of review chambers in Germany. Peter’s practice includes extensive experience in assisting private sector clients in developing effective strategies for participating in tender procedures, together worth more than €5 billion. He has published widely on public procurement, advised on the implementation of EU Public Procurement Law and is a regular speaker on national and international conferences and training seminars on the subject. Peter regularly defends clients before the World Bank Sanctions Board against allegations of corrupt practices in World Bank procurement, advising in relation to international financial institutions (EBRD, EIB, EU, et al.) to avoid debarment and cross-debarment and on the structured disclosure of past misconduct.

Dentons

Peter Dieners

Peter Dieners co-headed the global Healthcare & Life Sciences Sector Group at Clifford Chance until April 2024. He advises leading pharmaceutical, medical devices and chemicals companies on all their business-critical corporate, commercial and compliance matters, including investigations and related prevention counselling. He is author of the leading industry manual Compliance in the Healthcare Sector. Peter also acts for trade associations and companies vis-à-vis government agencies in relation to legislative projects and amendments. He frequently works with trade bodies to establish codes of conduct, thereby setting industry standards.

Clifford Chance

Peter Frey

Lawyer Partner

Annerton

Peter Gey

Special Counsel

WilmerHale

Peter Hoecherl

PARTNER, Registered Pharmacist, German and European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative Dr. Hoecherl has profound experience in all areas of patent law. His work focuses on prosecution, opposition and revocation proceedings before the European Patent Office (EPO), the German Patent and Trademark Office and the Federal Patent Court. Exemplary inter partes cases of him relate to patents in the field of type-2 diabetes, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, HIV, autoimmune diseases, pulmonary arterial hypertension, Parkinson's disease, infant formula, dairy products, tea preparations, fish oil products, fragrances, etc. His practice also includes the filing of supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), as well as the preparation of due diligence, freedom-to-operate and validity opinions. He is also closely involved in various infringement and revocation proceedings at a national and international level. His clients include both small and medium-sized companies and research institutions as well as leading global companies, in particular in the pharmaceutical and chemical field. Dr. Hoecherl gives lectures in Germany and abroad, in particular on the case law of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO, as well as the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC).

Vossius & Partner

Peter Homberg

Peter Homberg is a partner in the Dentons Berlin office. He focuses on life sciences, IP, corporate law and M&A transactions in the life sciences and high-tech sector as well as in R&D and cooperation agreements, cross-border IP licensing and IP strategies. Furthermore, he has extensive experience providing legal advice on compliance issues. Additionally, he is the head of the European Cannabis sector group. Peter advises inter alia companies in the pharmaceutical, diagnostics, biotechnology, medical device and medical cannabis industries—from startups to large publicly listed companies. Furthermore, he has broad transactional experience in Southeast Asia. Peter is member of the Licensing Executive Society (LES), the German Association for Intellectual Property and Copyright (GRUR), the German Institution for Arbitration (DIS) as well as the Pharma-Lizenz-Club Deutschland e.V. He regularly holds lectures at seminars and conferences. He is the author of numerous professional articles and other publications regarding corporate or IP law in the field of life sciences.

Dentons

Peter Memminger

Partner

King & Spalding LLP

Peter Meyer

Peter has specialised in intellectual property law and competition law matters for more than 20 years. His expertise covers all contentious and non-contentious issues of intellectual property and antitrust law. Peter's particular focus is on international and national patent litigation, and advising on antitrust law questions at the interface with IP rights. Peter's clients are mainly from the life sciences and TMT sectors. They include a major European life sciences company, a US medical device manufacturer as well as Asian and US electronics, telecom and IT companies. Peter is a registered representative before the Unified Patent Court (UPC), which became operational on 1 June 2023.

Simmons & Simmons

Peter Raue

Partner

Raue

Peter Roegele

Partner

Raue

Peter Schorling

Managing Partner/ Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig Germany

Peter Stainer

Senior Associate

King & Spalding LLP

Peter Waltz

Linklaters

Peter Wand

Dr. Peter Wand is a partner in the Frankfurt office of Baker McKenzie. He has more than 20 years of experience in cross-border M&A transactions for corporate, private equity and venture capital clients. Peter regularly advises on high-end M&A transactions, reorganizations, carve-outs and joint ventures with a focus on automotive, financial services and healthcare. He also has long-standing experience advising leading institutional investors on fund investments and other asset management-related transactions.

Baker McKenzie

Petra Linsmeier

Petra is Head of Gleiss Lutz' antitrust practice. She regularly advises national and international clients on all aspects of German and European antitrust law, i.e. cartels, mergers and dominance issues. She focuses among others on the consumer goods industry and the sector’s competition law topics, such as potential vertical restrictions, selective distribution and platform bans. Petra also regularly advises on compliance issues and internal investigations.

Gleiss Lutz

Philip Goj

Dr. Philip Goj is a corporate partner in the Munich office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. He advises clients on the preparation and implementation of M&A transactions as well as public takeovers. He also advises clients on structural measures and on questions of corporate and capital markets law.

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP