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Christian W. Appelt is focused on personal counseling of SMEs in Germany and Europe in all aspects of Intellectual Property, especially Patents and Utility Models, and on representing and advising large, internationally active companies, especially from Japan, China, and the US. His technical concentration is on physics, mechanical engineering, electronics, and computer technology (ICT). Besides drafting and prosecuting patent applications, Christian W. Appelt especially concentrates on repre...
Arnold Asmussen started his training in the field of intellectual property in 1996, and he joined VOSSIUS & PARTNER in 1997. He was admitted to practice as a European Patent Attorney in 2003. Arnold Asmussen became a German Patent Attorney (Patentanwalt) and a European Trademark & Design Attorney in 2005. He has been a partner in the firm since 2007. Arnold Asmussen has extensive knowledge in the field of medical engineering, especially in the field of cardiovascular medicine, neuromo...
Born in 1972, Law School University of Munich (first state examination 1998). Additional studies of business administration at the University Hagen. Doctorate in 2006, certified specialist lawyer for labour law since 2006, certified specialist lawyer for Corporate and Commercial Law since 2021.
Markus Birkenmaier is a founding partner of BIRKENMAIER & OBSER Rechtsanwälte , a boutique law firm in Munich (Germany). He specializes in corporate law, commercial law and tax law as well as white-collar crime (including criminal tax law). Markus was admitted to the German Bar ( Rechtsanwalt ) in 2005 and studied at the universities of Bayreuth (Germany), Munich (Germany), London (United Kingdom) and Heidelberg (Germany). He is also a specialist tax lawyer ( Fachanwalt für Steu...
Dr. Karl-Ulrich Braun-Dullaeus is a patent attorney and equity partner at Braun-Dullaeus Pannen Emmerling (BDPE) in Dusseldorf, an IP service boutique that specializes in litigation in industrial property protection. Dr. Braun-Dullaeus has more than 20 years of experience as a patent attorney, in which he successfully lead a large number of patent disputes, especially on behalf of large corporations in the field of telecommunications. These attacks on the legal status of the patents filed in ...
Dr Dirk Brückner (Lawyer of the Year Real Estate Law, Bayern 2025, 2021) is one of the leading real estate lawyers in Germany. He had a leading role in supporting some of the largest transactions in Germany, including transactions for Art-Invest, Hines, Accumulata, Patrizia and Real I.S. AG. Specialization: real estate transactions, real estate joint ventures. Short Biography: Universities of Munich and Passau Academic member of staff at the “Institut für gewerblichen Rechtsch...
Michael Brückner is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT’s Munich office and member of the Public Sector practice group. His area of activity comprises structuring and assisting with national and European tender procedures, privatisation and PPP projects, including drafting and negotiating contracts. He also represents contract awarders and bidders in review procedures. He focuses particularly on the IT, telecommunications and defence sectors as well as on infrastructure projects. He is als...
Dr Matthias Bruse is a founding partner of POELLATH (formerly P+P Pöllath + Partners). He has practiced corporate law since 1984 and has decades of expertise in transactions with a focus on private equity investments and family-owned businesses. In addition, he is also highly regarded for his corporate law advice, often with regard to succession issues. Matthias is also active as arbitrator, in particular with respect to post-M&A disputes. He is frequently ranked as one of the preemi...
Qualified to practice law in New York and Germany, Gebhard has advised a broad range of clients across many industries, including energy and natural resources, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and financial services. Gebhard has also sat as presiding arbitrator, co-arbitrator, and sole arbitrator. He has acted in a large variety of disputes, including high-value post-M&A arbitrations, price revisions under energy and electricity supply contracts, and disputes arising from ot...
Since 2018: Kantenwein • Zimmermann • Spatscheck & Partner, partner 2015 – 2018: Kantenwein • Zimmermann • Fox • Kröck & Partner, partner 2007 – 2015: Weil Gotshal & Manges, Munich office, Frankfurt office 2000 – 2007: Oppenhoff & Rädler, Linklaters, Berlin office, Frankfurt office 1996 – 2000: Lignitz, Berlin
Dr André Depping is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT’s Munich office and member of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice group. His area of expertise comprises litigation, arbitration and mediation, especially in the automotive, pharmaceutical, product liability, sales and partnership law sector. He particularly advises his national and international clients on proceedings with technical background as well as questions regarding liability and interpretation of a contra...
Hannes Dürr Attorney Certified specialist in building and architects’ law Partner Specialists area: Real estate and property law, p rivate construction and architectural law, l itigation As a certified specialist in building and architects’ law, I have been advising national and international companies from the property industry as well as private and institutional investors for almost 20 years on all legal issues relating to the development, construction, acquisition, manage...
Dr Maximilian Emanuel Elspas is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Munich office, co-head of the Corporate / M&A practice group and responsible for the competence area Energy. He provides advice to his national and international clients from the energy industry and other industrial sectors on all aspects of energy law, assists them with projects and also represents them in disputes.
Practice Areas Friedrich Emmerling has extensive experience in conducting patent litigation and prosecution, enforcing patents and utility models, offering strategic advice on patent portfolios and representing clients in numerous nullity proceedings and oppositions before the German patent courts and EPO. He also cooperates with law firms in parallel infringement proceedings before the German Regional/Higher Regional Courts. Many of these patent disputes are based on SEPs and concern complex...
Markus Engelhard is active in all fields of life sciences, pharmacology, and biotechnology, having a particular focus on therapeutic biomolecules and pharmaceutically active agents. His clients include start-up companies, small and medium-sized enterprises, multinational corporations, universities, and academic research institutions. He supports them in acquiring and enforcing intellectual property rights, building up patent portfolios, and representing them in opposition, invalidation, and i...
Peter Fabry Attorney Tax advisor Certified specialist in tax law Certified consultant for criminal tax law (DAA) Partner Specialists area : Tax law, property succession Peter Fabry's advisory services focus on national and international tax structuring advice for larger medium-sized companies, asset and succession planning for family businesses and entrepreneurs as well as tax support for transactions. As a certified consultant for criminal tax law (DAA), he pays particular attention to the a...
Dr. Armin Fary, LL.M. Eur. Attorney Certified specialist in commercial and corporate law Partner Specialists areas : Mergers & acquisitions, venture capital, real estate transactions, corporate law, capital markets law I have been advising companies as well as private and institutional investors on corporate, capital markets and commercial law matters for more than ten years. I specialise in corporate law as well as national and cross-border transactions in the areas of mergers & acqu...
Martin Fink is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT‘s Munich office and member of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. His area of expertise especially comprises collective and individual labour law, on which he advises national and international companies. Negotiations with bodies under works constitution law (group/central/individual works councils) at the occasion of restructurings are as much part of his area of expertise as the defence of employers against dismissal protection or...
Dr Nico Fischer is a partner at POELLATH in Munich. His core areas are national and international tax law, general tax planning and structuring with a focus on private equity and M&A. In addition, he advises national and international private equity houses as well as German carry holders on German tax issues. Nico regularly publishes articles on tax topics in relevant professional media and passes on his expertise as a lecturer at the University of Muenster in the Master’s program i...
Gustav acts as counsel and arbitrator in multifaceted domestic and international arbitrations, involving a wide array of matters under many different laws. His institutional track record includes cases under the ICC, DIS, VIAC, SCC, FAI and SCAI Rules. He has extensive experience with ad hoc arbitrations (domestic and UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules), and sits as chair, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator and emergency arbitrator at various seats throughout Europe. Gustav’s main areas of expertis...
Silke Freund focuses on the contentious – sometimes cross-border – enforcement of trade marks or the defense against asserted infringement claims of third parties. She also supports clients in their worldwide trade mark portfolio management in the filing, assignment, and licencing of trade marks as well as opposition, appeal, and cancellation proceedings before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (GPTO) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). Silke Freund ...
Heinz Goddar with his office at Munich has a technical background as well as a PHD degree in physics, with a focus on polymer physics. He teaches Patent and Licensing Law as an honorary Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany, as a lecturer at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) , Munich, Germany as a visiting Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A., and the Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing, China, and as a Consultant Professor at Huazho...
Dr Axel Goetz is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Munich office and a head of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice group. He focuses on mergers & acquisitions, private equity transactions and corporate law, as well as restructuring and representation in special corporate disputes. His clients include companies in the technology sector as well as the machinery and automobile industry, recapitalisation specialists and other private equity investors.
