Lawyers in Germany

Susanne Sonnenhauser

Managing Partner

Prüfer & Partner

Susanne Weckbach

Dr Susanne Weckbach is a Partner in Fieldfisher's Munich office and advises on all legal issues in the area of Commercial/Commercial Contract Law. She has been advising German and international companies for over ten years, specialising in the Automotive, Chemicals and Industrial Goods sectors. Due to her many years of advising various clients in these sectors, she is very familiar with all legal issues along the entire value chain - from procurement and production to sales and distribution. Her advice ranges from drafting and negotiating complex contracts to advising her clients on day-to-day operations. Her expertise includes, in particular, purchase and sales contracts, complex production and supply contracts, service, consultancy and maintenance contracts as well as the drafting of standard and model contracts. In addition, she advises clients on long-term, cross-border technology co-operations and joint ventures. A further focus of her work is advising clients on entering the German market, structuring and reorganising contractual relationships following the acquisition or sale of companies and implementing new business models. The following quotes from her clients were collected by Legal 500: "Susanne Weckbach is excellent at drafting English contracts and experienced in complex contractual mechanisms" - Legal 500 Germany 2022 "Susanne Weckbach offers the highest level of expertise and is very efficient" - Legal 500 Germany 2023

Fieldfisher

Sven Fretthold

Sven specialises in the renewables sector and in public private partnership projects (PPP). He acts for lenders, sponsors and borrowers in domestic as well as international project financing and real estate finance transactions. He regularly advises lending groups on complex and large scale-projects in the renewable energy sector. He also advises on structured financings of infrastructure and real estate projects. Sven is recommended as a leading projects lawyer for Germany by legal directories Chambers Europe 2019, 2020 and 2021 and Legal 500 EMEA 2018-19, with the latter highlighting his “ability to convey legal matters to non-lawyers”. Market sources comment that Sven has a “very good reputation in the German project finance market”. He has also been ranked in The Best Lawyers in Germany in 2024 in the field of Project Finance and Development Practice as well as ‘Lawyer of the Year for Project Finance and Development Practice’ in 2021 and 2022 by Best Lawyers in cooperation with business magazine Handelsblatt.

Watson Farley & Williams LLP

Sven Krause, LL.M.

Counsel

HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER

Sven Labudda

Dr Sven Labudda is a Partner in Fieldfisher´s Hamburg office and advises on all aspects of Corporate, Investment and Capital Markets Law. A particular focus is on advising listed public companies and their governing bodies as well as funds, their management and fund initiators. He represents his clients in takeovers, equity and debt capital market transactions, venture capital investments, setting up funds and fundraising as well as in general questions of capital market, financial and fund regulation. Many of his clients are companies and entrepreneurs active in the Technology sector. He therefore regularly represents FinTechs and InsurTechs and, more recently, blockchain technology companies on regulatory and liability issues.

Fieldfisher

Sven-Holger Undritz

Partner

White & Case LLP

Swen Schöne, LL.M. (Brisbane)

Swen Schöne, LL.M. (Brisbane) is a Counsel in Fieldfisher's Hamburg office and advises on all issues of Data Protection Law. He has 16 years of experience in providing strategic and practical advice to national and international clients and has particular expertise in Employee Data Protection. In particular, he advises on employee monitoring, discrimination and the drafting and negotiation of company agreements. His expertise includes working in the legal department of a German subsidiary of a listed Japanese technology company and a medium-sized German energy supplier.

Fieldfisher

Sylvia Ebersberger

DLA Piper

Sylvia Fiebig

Partner

White & Case LLP

Sylvia Lorenz

Partner

White & Case LLP

Sébastien Seele

Partner

White & Case LLP

Sönke Friedrichsen

Partner

Weisner Partner

Sören Schomburg

Partner

Knauer Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB

Tamara Warzecha

Associate

HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER

Tamara Zehentbauer

Dr. Tamara Zehentbauer is a corporate partner in the Munich office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. She advises corporate clients, private equity and other financial investors on national and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions as well as public takeovers and corporate reorganizations.

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

Tanja Aschenbeck-Florange

As a Partner in the banking and capital markets team, Tanja advises national and international companies on banking matters and capital markets. Her main focus is on corporate finance, real estate finance, structuring funds and regulatory matters, including payment processing. She has acted for numerous US and UK companies and investors on cross-border transactions, and regularly advises German companies on capital market, corporate and banking law.

Osborne Clarke GmbH & Co. KG

Tanja Rüth

Tanja Rüth is a Counsel in Fieldfisher's Munich office and is a member of the Corporate, Energy and Real Estate team. Her main focus is to advise financial investors, banks, project developers and energy supply companies on the realization of national and international energy and infrastructure projects. In particular, she assists her clients with renewable energy transactions.

Fieldfisher

Tassilo Schmid

Tassilo Schmid is a Partner in Fieldfisher's Munich office and advises clients primarily in the areas of Corporate Disputes, Corporate Law and Private Equity/Venture Capital and family business interests. His expertise lies in the representation in complex legal disputes, particularly in the area of Corporate Law. He has extensive experience in high stakes shareholder disputes and post-transaction litigation. Furthermore, he advises clients in corporate law and in M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions as well in the company successions. Thus, he does have the experience in both, negotiating and formulating agreements as well as in enforcement if necessary. A further focus of his work is advising private individuals in all wealth-related matters. His clients range from multinational corporations to family-owned enterprises and private individuals. For each client, he develops tailormade solutions to address their individual needs in the specific situation. The aim is always to find a sustainable and fair solution.

Fieldfisher

Theresa Dilg

Lawyer Cologne / Munich

avocado rechtsanwälte

Theresa Keß

DLA Piper

Thilo Danz, LL.M. (Osnabrück)

Thilo Danz, LL.M. (Osnabrück) is a Frankfurt based finance partner with a particular focus on financial regulation assisting credit institutions, insurance undertakings and other financial service providers to develop their businesses within challenging and constantly changing environments. In the field of banking supervisory law his expertise includes compliance related as well as product specific issues; with respect to insurance supervisory and investment funds law he focuses on investment restrictions. His long-term in-house experience enables him to provide clients with legally robust and commercially viable advice. His client base consists of foreign and German credit institutions, financial services institutions, payment services providers as well as insurance undertakings. Furthermore, he advises entities and individuals with regard to their investments in German regulated institutions.

Fieldfisher

Thilo Diehl

Partner

White & Case LLP

Thilo Räpple

Baker McKenzie

Thilo Streit

DLA Piper