SCHMITT TEWORTE-VEY SIMON & SCHUMACHER - Key Persons
Gesa Simon is founding partner of our firm. She has been advising her clients for more than 25 years in all fields of intellectual property, unfair competition law and trademark law. Before joining Schmitt Teworte-Vey Simon & Schumacher, she worked in various law firms having a focus in intellectual property law and in an international law firm in Cologne. Gesa Simon is a certified specialist in Intellectual Property Law.US publishing house Best Lawyers®, in cooperation with German business newspaper Handelsblatt, recognized her in its ‘Best Lawyers' ranking among the leading individuals in Germany specialising in intellectual property law.
Jan Schumacher is a founding partner of our firm. He advises and represents national and international companies in all fields of intellectual property and unfair competition law. Before joining Schmitt Teworte-Vey Simon & Schumacher, Jan used to work at international law firms as well as IP boutique law firms in Cologne and Dusseldorf. Jan is a certified specialist in Intellectual Property law. He is author of several legal publications and holds lectures on various IP issues.
IP STARS, the leading specialist guide to IP law firms and practitioners worldwide, ranks Jan as a "Trade Mark Star" 2023. US publishing house Best Lawyers, in cooperation with German business newspaper Handelsblatt, also recognized him in its ‘Best Lawyers' ranking among the leading individuals in Germany in the field of intellectual property law. German business news magazine WirtschaftsWoche has named him in 2022 as one of the most recommended legal advisors in Germany for copyright law.
Linda Bienemann is a lawyer at our firm. During her law studies at the University of Cologne, she specialised in media and press law, freedom of speech, copyright as well as IT law. From 2017 to 2019, she worked as a research assistant at the Chair of European and International Information and Data Law with Prof. Dr Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider at the Universities of Passau and Bonn. Her main area of practice was data and data protection law, copyright and artistic copyright law, as well as internet and media law. In addition, she published a wide range of academic papers during her time at the chair and continues to write commentaries on data protection law.
Job Titles:
- Founding Partner
- Partner / Certified Specialist in Intellectual Property Law
Marie Teworte-Vey is a founding partner of the firm and was admitted to the bar in 2007. Before founding Schmitt, Teworte-Vey, Simon & Schumacher, she worked for CBH Attorneys at Law for more than 11 years. Her practice focuses on trademark and competition law as well as design and copyright law. She advises and represents national and international companies in litigation, trademark application and other official proceedings at both German and EU level. In addition, she is involved in the drafting of coexistence agreements and the review of advertising measures. A further focus of her work is press law. She has successfully completed the training course for Certified Specialists in Intellectual Property Law.
Marie Teworte-Vey is a former scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. She is a member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Cologne Bar Association. She is also a member of the advisory board of the Corporate Law Clinic e.V. of the University of Cologne.
In Kanzleimonitor 2019/2020 she is recommended as an attorney in the field of intellectual property law. In the JUVE Handbook "Commercial Law Firms 2021/2022" she is named as a lawyer often recommended ("excellent trademark lawyer", "precise and responsive, speaks faster than I can think", clients).
Job Titles:
- Counsel
- of Counsel / Lawyer
Matthias Humborg joined the law firm in 2023 as Of Counsel. Prior to that, he led the IP section of the corporate legal department of a globally operating food/tourism company headquartered in Cologne. Matthias planned, built up and integrated the legal department into the group. In addition to the central management of the group's worldwide trademark portfolio, he also advised the affiliated companies on competition law matters. He provided legal support for all kinds of marketing activities and image campaigns of the group, was responsible for questions concerning the development of private label articles and advised on licensing and sponsoring issues.
Sophia advises and represents clients in all areas of intellectual property law, in particular in the field of trademark law and competition law. During her studies at the University of Cologne she specialized in intellectual property law and competition law. Besides working at our law firm, Sophia is completing the master's program "Intellectual Property" at the CIP Center for Intellectual Property Law in Düsseldorf.