Lawyers in Germany

Ralf Emig

Partner

Maikowski & Ninnemann

Ralf Kaminski

Partner Public Commercial Law; Criminal Law.

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Ralf Kotitschke

Partner German Patent Attorney European Patent Attorney UPC Representative Physicist

Maiwald GmbH

Ralf W. Schlößer

Ralf is Head of Tax and also a member of the corporate team in Germany. He has advised on a large number of acquisitions, including the restructuring of companies on a national and international level. He is legal counsel for a large number of companies, in particular mid-sized enterprises with headquarters both in Germany and overseas, which he advises on corporate and tax issues. Additionally, he has broad experience in criminal tax law, capital gains in particular. He has more than ten years' experience in the automotive sector, in particular with car dealers and their relationships with manufacturers and importers. Ralf has been legal adviser of the Association of Mercedes-Benz car dealers (VVMB) for many years. His deep understanding of the automotive sector, together with his broad experience in tax and corporate law, has made him the adviser on a large number of M&A deals, as well as on the restructuring of companies in this sector.

Osborne Clarke GmbH & Co. KG

Ralph Drebes

Linklaters

Ralph Wollburg

Linklaters

Raphael Salzer

PARTNER, German and European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative At VOSSIUS, Raphael focuses on the different aspects of mechanical and medical engineering. Being particularly interested in medical devices, manufacturing technology, plastics engineering, and the automotive field, he has represented clients in prosecution, opposition, and nullity proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office, and the German Federal Patent Court. Furthermore, Raphael gathered expertise in infringement proceedings, both as a representative and during a clerkship at the Higher District Court in Munich.

Vossius & Partner

Rebecca Emory

Partner

White & Case LLP

Rebecca Schäffer

Partner, Public Commercial Law.

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Rebekka Hye-Knudsen

Dr. Rebekka Hye-Knudsen is a partner in Dentons' Berlin office and co-head of the German Corporate/M&A practice group. She is also a member of the Venture Technology practice group. She represents clients in all corporate law matters, in particular mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, founding of companies, corporate governance and corporate reorganisations. Rebekka is a native speaker of both German and English.

Dentons

Regina Neuefeind, LL.M.

Partner German Patent Attorney European Patent Attorney UPC Representative Biologist LL.M. "European Intellectual Property Law“

Maiwald GmbH

Reinhard Lutz

Partner | Lawyer | Certified Specialist Lawyer for Tax Law Competences: Corporate law; Shareholder dispute; Litigation and arbitration; Defence against managerial and professional liability; Corporate succession, law of succession

LUTZ | ABEL RECHTSANWALTS PARTG MBB

René Grafunder

Dr. René Grafunder is a partner in Dentons’ Frankfurt office and Co-Head of the Competition and Antitrust group in Germany. He advises clients on EU and German competition matters, including merger control, compliance and state aid. René has substantial experience dealing with cartel, abuse and merger control proceedings before European and national competition authorities and courts. His comprehensive sector expertise in particular covers health care and life sciences, banking, postal services as well as manufacturing. René is a lecturer on EU Competition Law at the DeutscheAnwaltAkademie and the University of Potsdam. He regularly publishes on EU and national competition matters. Before joining Dentons, he worked for another leading law firm in Düsseldorf, Brussels and Beijing. René studied in Potsdam, Paris and Freiburg as well as at the College of Europe in Bruges and clerked at the German Federal Cartel Office.

Dentons

Riaz Janjuah

Linklaters

Richard Kauffmann

Lawyer / Cologne

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Richard Roeder

Dr. Richard Roeder is a partner in Willkie’s German practice. He is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department and Willkie’s Global Trade & Investment, Compliance, Investigations & Enforcement and Environmental, Social & Governance practice groups. Richard focuses on international trade, compliance and white collar investigations, as well as transactional regulatory risk assessments. He advises clients from various industries in the areas of sanctions, export control, supply chain, anti-money-laundering and anti-corruption compliance. His clients include in particular financial services and insurance companies as well as companies from the automotive, mining, oil and gas, healthcare and information technology sectors.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Robert Castor

Partner | Lawyer | Head of the Hamburg office | Certified specialist lawyer for construction and architectural law | Certified specialist lawyer for property rental and ownership LA

LUTZ | ABEL RECHTSANWALTS PARTG MBB

Robert Hegarty

Robert Hegarty is a New Zealand qualified lawyer now based in Fieldfisher´s Hamburg office. He provides advice to our clients across a number of sectors regarding the ever-increasing spectrum of Data Protection and other tech related topics. His work involves helping clients pragmatically understand and manage data protection risks in both their day-to-day and long-term operations. This includes helping respond to data subject and regulator requests, reviewing new and existing products and services, drafting privacy notices and data protection impact assessments, drafting and negotiating data processing agreements, assisting with the management of data security incidents, addressing international transfer challenges and helping ensure compliance with direct marketing and cookie requirements. On top of this, he has particular experience helping clients with multi-jurisdictional delivery of products and services. This has included extensive coordination of local counsel reviews and assisting clients with assessing and addressing data protection risks that are identified. The products and services reviewed have included ones from the Life Science sector that involve sensitive health data, as well as other higher risk processing activities. The companies that he works with come from a large variety of sectors. However, he has particular experience in the Life Science sector, with major tech firms and with e-commerce companies. In all the work he does, he always strives to make clients lives as easy as possible by breaking down requirements into simple terms and providing pragmatic and straightforward advice about different options that are available.

Fieldfisher

Robert Heine

Partner

Raue

Robert R.C. Frühling

Robert R.C. Frühling is a Senior Associate in Fieldfisher´s Hamburg office and advises on all areas of private and public construction and Architectural Law as well as Real Estate Business Law. A particular focus is on advising and providing long-term support to parties involved in real estate construction projects, legal project management and representation in legal disputes and court proceedings. Another focus is on advising on the purchase and sale of existing properties and project developments, including legal due diligence up to the conclusion of the purchase agreement in the area of Commercial and residential Real Estate. In addition, asset management, in particular Tenancy Law, is another focus of his work. Our clients include private and institutional investors, builders and project developers.

Fieldfisher

Robert Schindler

As an M&A and private equity lawyer with expertise in business and corporate law, Robert Schindler advises groups, holding companies and their portfolio companies on corporate sales and acquisitions, with regard to both majority and minority interests. In addition to providing ongoing corporate law advice, Robert Schindler is also a knowledgeable transaction advisor with a particular focus on leveraged buy-outs/management buy-outs, joint ventures and restructurings. He further specialises in drafting shareholder and investment agreements, which are crucial to ensuring the success of an investment.

Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH

Robert Weber

Dr. Robert Weber is a partner in Dentons’ Frankfurt office and Co-Head of Dentons’ German Corporate/M&A Group. He focuses on stock corporation law and group law and related capital market law issues. His main practice areas include the preparation of ordinary and extraordinary general meetings of listed companies as well as structural measures under corporate law such as transformations, mergers, company agreements or squeeze-outs. Furthermore, he advises groups and companies on acquisitions and takeovers, joint ventures and reorganizations as well as board members, managing directors and supervisory board members on corporate governance, compliance and liability issues.

Dentons

Robert von Steinau-Steinrück

Prof. Dr Robert von Steinau-Steinrück is an employment lawyer. He advises companies on all matters pertaining to individual and collective employment law. His main focuses are works constitution law, staff representation law and collective bargaining law; restructuring, staff cuts, layoffs; business transfers and employment law in transactions; co-determination and compliance as well as industrial action issues; representation and consulting of executives.

Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH

Roger Kiem

Partner

White & Case LLP