Best Lawyers in Düsseldorf, Germany
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Sabine Dethof is a patent litigator and Salaried Partner at HEUKING, Düsseldorf. As a Certified Specialist Lawyer in Intellectual Property Law with 14 years of professional practice, she has a wide range of experience, in particular in the field of mechanical engineering and in the areas of automotive, semiconductors and medical devices. Besides the daily business of patent infringement proceedings she is especially experienced in nullity proceedings before the Federal Patent Court. For ...
Ulrike is one of the leading personalities in the field of dispute resolution - in particular for national and international arbitration. Due to her expertise, she is regularly appointed as arbitrator and advises her clients as party representative in complex proceedings. Two main core areas of Ulrike’s practice are turn-key construction (including energy related projects) and post-M&A. She relies on her extensive experience as an advisor for corporate and M&A. Furthermore, she ...
Matthias is a Counsel in Dentons’ Dusseldorf office and a member of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group. He is specialised in international commercial arbitration and has extensive experience in construction engineering and post-M&A disputes. Another key focus of his work is global commercial disputes, including the representation of clients in mass-litigations. He also advises on project development, including the drafting, negotiation and enforcement of commercial...
Dr. Philipp F. Hardung is Counsel at Hausfeld in Düsseldorf, specializing in commercial and corporate litigation. Before joining Hausfeld, Philipp worked for a leading German law firm with a focus on corporate, banking and capital markets law as well as in the corporate law department of a Magic Circle law firm. He has acquired broad experience in litigation and dispute resolution, including cross-border commercial disputes and corporate litigation, as well as banking and financial dispu...
With nearly 20 years of professional experience, Anton is a proven expert in patent litigation. He is among the lawyers with the highest number of appearances at the Federal Court of Justice, Germany’s highest court in patent matters. He has been acknowledged as a recommended patent litigator by various legal publications and handbooks. He is a partner of the firm and the head of the patent law team. In the year 2006, he was among the first lawyers to receive the distinction as a Certif...
Andreas Imping is a partner in the employment practice of Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner in Cologne. Together with partner Sven Köhnen, Andreas Imping is the partner in the firm's employment law practice in Cologne. He moved from DLA Piper to FGvW in June 2017. Andreas Imping advises on individual and collective employment law and litigates throughout Germany. In addition, he has a wide range of experience in the employment law aspects of company acquisitions, restructuring ...
Dr. Martin Jäger is Counsel at Hausfeld in Düsseldorf. He advises on all aspects of German and European antitrust law with a focus on antitrust litigation and merger control. Furthermore, he has many years of diverse experience in distribution antitrust law, in particular at the interface with intellectual property law and in antitrust damages proceedings, as well as in advising clients from the healthcare industry. Prior to joining Hausfeld, Martin was Senior Counsel at a leading G...
Dr. Ute Jasper has been a lawyer at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek since 1991 and a Partner since 1994. Dr. Jasper heads the Public Sector Department. With the department, she has designed and implemented numerous projects for the government as well as for large cities, counties and municipalities, such as large procurement procedures and investor competitions, but also strategic partnerships and PPPs in the fields of public transport, culture, sports, water, energy, construction, hospita...
Hermann Kahlhöfer advises clients in patent law, in particular in the fields of electrical engineering, medical technology and physics. He has been working in the field of intellectual property for more than 40 years and has extensive experience in the field of national and international patent prosecution procedures and patent infringement matters as well as in the development and exploitation of intellectual property portfolios. After completing two years of military service with a spe...
Thomas Kerkhoff is partner in our Düsseldorf office. For many years he has been advising clients on intellectual property law. His work includes advice on trademarks, their protection and their realisation. In cooperation with accountants and business economists he is regularly involved in the taxational assessment of trademarks. His work also includes all aspects of copyright protection, designs and unfair trading. He also does litigation in cases of intellectual property infringements ...
Dr. Manuel Knebelsberger is Counsel at Hausfeld in Düsseldorf, specializing in competition law and competition litigation. Before joining Hausfeld, Manuel worked in the competition department of one of the biggest international law firms where he acquired a broad experience in all aspects of competition law, ranging from classic antitrust and merger control to procurement and state aid matters. In addition to advising clients on general competition law, Manuel regularly represents client...
Dipl.-Kfm. Dr. iur. Maximilian Koch is the Managing Director and Founder of KOCH Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH in Dusseldorf, Germany. He studied economics at the University of Hagen (Diplom-Kaufmann) and law at the University of Osnabruck (1st legal state exam with honors, ranking among the top 5% of graduates), in addition to earning his Dr. iur. "summa cum laude". After completing his legal clerkship in Lower Saxony, he excelled in the 2nd state law examination, achieving a high distinctio...
Friedrich Kötter-Boisserée Dipl.-Finanzwirt Attorney Certified specialist in tax law Specialists areas : Tax law, transformation-of-companies tax law, transformation-of-companies law, criminal law for tax offenses I have been advising companies/individuals of all legal forms as a lawyer since 1990, specialising in tax law, and since 1997 I have also been licensed as a specialist lawyer for tax law. My former employment with the tax authorities of the state of North Rhine-Westphali...
Justus Kreuels´ practice involves patent prosecution in the fields of mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, information technology and medical engineering and patent opposition as well as invalidity proceedings before the European Patent Office, the German Patent and Trademark Office, and the Federal Patent Court. He studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and at RWTH Aachen University where he graduated as Master in Engineering in 2007. In 2...
Markus Kreuzberg is a patent attorney and equity partner at Braun-Dullaeus Pannen Emmerling (BDPE) in Dusseldorf, a service boutique specializing in the representation of clients in litigation and prosecution proceedings for intellectual property rights. He has extensive experience in the implementation of patent and utility model law and has in-depth knowledge of international legal practice in the IP field, not least due to the support of clients also operating outside Europe. Further areas...
Dr Guido Krüger is Partner at the offices of BEITEN BURKHARDT in Dusseldorf and Hamburg and member of the Tax practice group. His area of activity comprises company restructuring, mergers and acquisitions as well as consulting on trusts, corporate succession and tax law. He advises his national and international clients on balance sheet restructuring, corporate and tax issues and on merger and acquisition processes.
Dr. Wolfgang Kühn is a senior partner of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, a major German law firm with about 350 lawyers and offices in Berlin, Brussels, Chemnitz, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart and Zurich. The firm engages in general corporate and commercial, international arbitration and M&A. Dr. Kühn's area of practice is corporate law, M&A and international arbitration. Dr. Kühn has advised national and foreign clients in a large ...