Gleiss Lutz — Germany

Alexander Molle

Alexander advises and represents clients in all matters of IP law, including on unfair competition, trademarks, design and copyright matters. He has also extensive expertise in IT law, particularly in connection with M&A transactions, transitional services and carve outs, drafting and negotiating complex IT agreements, issues in e-commerce and Internet law as well as IT-related litigation. · Intellectual Property

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. · Litigation

Andreas Spahlinger

Andreas heads firm's restructuring practice. He has been extensively active in this area for many years, and has acquired outstanding expertise in this field. His practice also includes advice on insolvency law as well as on M&A transactions and corporate law. · Restructuring

Anna He Pfarr

Anna specialises in product liability and litigation before state courts as well as before national and international arbitral tribunals. In addition to her litigation work, she specialises in commercial law, product compliance, and ESG matters. She advises on highly complex civil law contracts and handles international product recalls. · Product Liability

Christian Arnold

Christian advises on collective and individual employment law. He specialises in the conclusion and termination of service contracts with board members and managing directors as well as structuring remuneration systems, remuneration reports, and the provision of related assistance for shareholder meetings. His practice also focuses on (cross-border) reorganisations, particularly the associated co-determination issues. He also regularly advises on works constitution law, collective bargaining and industrial disputes. · Employment & Labor

Christian Cascante

Christian advises national and international companies in large M&A-transactions. He has particular experience in public takeovers, private equity and cross-border transactions. He has worked for law firms in London, New York and Palo Alto. · Corporate / M&A

Christian Steinle

Christian has considerable experience in European and international antitrust law. He focuses on cartel cases as well as private antitrust litigation, merger control, online and distribution antitrust law, antitrust compliance programme and internal investigations. · Antitrust / Competition

Christiane Freytag

Christiane advises on public law. She has particular expertise in public procurement, environmental law, product (safety) law and public construction and planning. She regularly advises on all matters relating product compliance and product recalls. Furthermore, she advises on privatisations/public private partnerships and on matters concerning freedom of information. · Public Law

Christine Mattes

Christine is an expert in regulatory compliance and public procurement. She advises clients on all aspects of implementing regulatory requirements and compliance obligations. Christine also has many years of experience in complex procurement projects, in particular in the energy & infrastructure and healthcare & life sciences sectors. · Regulatory & Compliance

Christoph Skoupil

Christoph is a partner in our Compliance & Investigations practice. He advises companies on all areas of white-collar crime and specialises in defending companies in complex criminal and regulatory investigations and proceedings. He has extensive experience in representing clients before investigative authorities and regulators as well as criminal courts in both domestic and cross-border litigation cases. His practice also focuses on advising companies that have been victims of crimes. Christoph regularly assists companies with internal investigations in Germany and abroad and the strategic handling of their consequences. He supports clients in establishing, implementing and refining compliance structures to avoid criminal law risks. · Compliance & Investigations

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. · Compliance

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. · Product Liability

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. · Public Law

Eva Reudelhuber

Eva specialises on corporate financings including acquisition financings and infrastructure financings. Further, her specialty lies in the structuring of complex financings on the lenders' and borrower's side including complex restructurings. She is a member of the drafting commission of the Loan Market Association (LMA) for Germany as regards credit agreements and Schuldscheindarlehen. · Banking & Finance

Frank Schlobach

Frank specialises in banking and finance. He advises on domestic and cross-border financing transactions, in particular leveraged buyouts, second lien, mezzanine and other subordinated debt financings, corporate loans, infrastructure financings and financial restructurings. Frank’s clients include private equity houses, corporates and financial institutions. · Banking & Finance

Harald Weiß

Harald advises on all aspects of German and European competition law, including antitrust, private antitrust litigation, merger control, EU state aid law and Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR). His practice also includes advice on EU law. Harald is frequently representing clients before the European Commission and the Court of Justice of the EU. · Competition / Antitrust

Helge Kortz

Helge specialises in banking, finance and capital markets. He has particular expertise in advising on syndicated lending, refinancing and restructuring. Helge’s clients include national and international banks, corporates and group companies. · Banking & Finance

Jacob von Andreae

Jacob is specialised in public law. His practice focus is on regulatory law in the energy sector, foreign trade law, subsidies and state aid as well as building, planning and environmental law. He advises in M&A-transactions with a public law focus and in real estate project developments, particularly in the energy and retail sectors. · Public Law

Jochen Tyrolt

Jochen is one of the leading M&A lawyers in Germany. He is co-head of Gleiss Lutz’ transaction practice and regularly advises national and international clients in connection with mergers & acquisitions as well as corporate and capital markets issues. Jochen has particular experience in cross-border transactions and complex carve-outs (including distressed M&A) as well as public takeovers. He is co-head of Gleiss Lutz’ Automotive & Mobility sector group and has extensive M&A experience in the automotive industry. · Corporate / M&A

Marc Ruttloff

Marc advises on public commercial law, in particular on issues of administrative law, constitutional law, European law, public liability, energy, automotive & mobility and other regulated industries. Another focus of his advice is on product liability and product safety law, all aspects of product compliance including current developments such as connectivity, data protection and artificial intelligence as well as sustainability transformation. Another focus advising on supply chain and ESG/CSR compliance. He is Head of the Public Law Practice Group and Co-Head of the ESG Practice and the Automotive & Mobility Industry Group. · Public Law

Marcus Reischl

Marcus advises on compliance & investigations as well as complex civil litigation. He regularly assists companies facing compliance crises, and conducts cross-border internal investigations, advising on their impact. Marcus has extensive experience in coordinating with regulatory and investigating authorities as well as parliamentary inquiry committees in Germany and abroad. Marcus further specialises in strategic compliance advice as well as setting-up, implementing and developing compliance and risk management structures. · Compliance

Matthias Tresselt

Matthias has been working extensively in the field of restructuring for years. He has particular expertise in the areas of judicial and extrajudicial restructuring, insolvency law, StaRUG procedures, distressed M&A transactions and crisis-related corporate law. Matthias has particular expertise in cross border restructurings. · Restructuring & Insolvency

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. · Competition / Antitrust

Stefan Rützel

Stefan specialises in complex litigation, domestic and international arbitration, and in alternative dispute resolution. His main areas of expertise are M&A and Private Equity, Finance, Joint Ventures, Corporate disputes, follow-on cartel litigation, and complex commercial contracts. Stefan has represented clients in state court litigation throughout Germany as well as in domestic and international arbitration proceedings under the rules of all major arbitral institutions. In addition, he is a sought-after arbitrator. · Litigation

Steffen Krieger

Steffen advises clients in all matters of collective and individual employment law. He provides comprehensive advice on company restructurings (transfers of business, staff adaptations, plant closures, plant relocations, establishment of qualification companies), particularly in the context of restructurings and insolvencies, and advises employers on and represents them in disputes with employees, works and staff councils and labour unions. His practice also includes advising on employment law issues in connection with transactions. · Employment

Thomas Winzer

Thomas heads the employment practice of Gleiss Lutz. He advises on labour and employment law. Thomas specialises in advising clients on employment law aspects of complex reorganisations and corporate transactions, (regulated) variable remuneration systems (including for management board members of listed companies, in particular), compliance investigations and codetermination issues on board level. He regularly negotiates with works councils and trade unions on complex projects. · Employment

Ulrich Denzel

Ulrich regularly advises domestic and international clients on German and European antitrust/competition law. He specialises in handling merger control proceedings, defending companies accused of cartel activities and representing clients in connection with claims for damages under civil law. · Competition / Antitrust

Ulrich Soltesz

Ulrich is based for nearly 30 years in our Brussels office. He advises on European antitrust and state aid law, as well as on merger control, FSR and general European law. His clients include German and foreign companies as well as public bodies, which he represents before the European Commission and national competition authorities. Ulrich has litigated more than 70 cases before the Courts of the European Union. · Competition / Antitrust