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Adrian Müller

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  • Lawyer, Notary ( Frankfurt ) / Partner / Specialist Lawyer for Commercial and Corporate Law / Frankfurt
Adrian Müller works as a lawyer and notary with a focus on real estate and corporate law. His clients primarily include holders of large real estate portfolios, property developers, institutional and private real estate investors, family offices, private equity companies, investment funds and mostly medium-sized corporations, as well as their managing directors and executives. As an experienced specialist lawyer for commercial and corporate law, his main focus is on contract drafting and negotiation. Müller advises on all choice-of-law matters in the context of company formations and corporate restructuring. In addition to advising on M&A transactions, he advises and represents managing directors and companies, as well as their management and supervisory bodies, on the commercial law issues relevant to their function and role, including the organisation and conducting of shareholders' meetings / annual general meetings. Expertise Corporate law / M&A

Alexa Clauss

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  • Lawyer / Senior Associate / Specialist Lawyer for Tax Law

Alexander Feitzinger

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  • Lawyer / Associate Partner / Specialist Lawyer for Information Technology Law
Alexander Feitzinger, M.A., has been a lawyer since 2007. He provides cross-industry advice on IT law, media law, intellectual property protection, distribution and contract law as well as data protection. Feitzinger advises start-ups, SMEs and international companies in various sectors with a focus on the healthcare, transportation, real estate and media industries. He is a specialist lawyer for IT law, intellectual property law and copyright and media law. He is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E). Alexander Feitzinger drafts and negotiates contracts, has extensive and long-standing litigation experience and advises his clients in a business-oriented manner on all legal issues in his specialist areas. Expertise Intellectual property and competition law

Alexander Gleixner

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  • Lawyer / Associate / Frankfurt

Aline Fritz

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  • Lawyer / Associate Partnerin / Specialist Lawyer for Public Procurement Law
Kommission kündigt im 5. Sanktionspaket allgemeinen Ausschluss russischer Unternehmen von öffentlichen Ausschreibungen an! Aline Fritz's mandates include public procurement law as well as European state aid law and subsidy law. She advises the public sector and subsidy recipients on the implementation of procurement procedures, as well as bidders in all phases of the procedure. Fritz has extensive experience in representing clients before various public procurement chambers and public procurement tribunals in the higher regional courts. She regularly holds lectures and training courses on public procurement law and has published numerous specialist articles on the subject. Expertise Public law, regulation Was lange währt... Wettbewerbsregister für öffentliche Aufträge ab 01.12.2021 endlich in Betrieb!

Andrea Hartmann

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  • Lawyer / Associate Partnerin / Specialist Lawyer for Construction and Architectural Law / Frankfurt

Anne Christa Berger

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  • Lawyer / Counsel / Hamburg
Can law and creativity go together? Yes, they can! During her studies in Münster, Anne Christa Berger specialised in the protection of intellectual property. And because you need to keep your perspective flexible when it comes to good ideas and their legal protection, she also completed subject-specific foreign-language training with a focus on US law and earned a Master of Laws (Commercial Law) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She gained initial professional experience in a large law firm in Stuttgart and then worked in a Hamburg-based IP boutique for many years. Since 2020, she has been part of FPS's Hamburg IP team and provides comprehensive advice to clients on all areas of intellectual property rights - including trademark, design, copyright and competition law. Using her extensive knowledge and experience, especially in the management of property rights, she develops application and protection strategies and conducts proceedings brought before trademark offices. In addition, she drafts and negotiates agreements related to intellectual property rights, such as licensing and delimitation agreements, and acts as a forensic expert for German and European courts. Expertise Intellectual property and competition law

Arne Carstens

Job Titles:
  • Lawyer / Associate Partner / Specialist Lawyer for Tenancy and Residential Property Law / Hamburg

Askan Deutsch

General Court: no extended well-known mark protection for PUMA against LI PUMA marks for waste management services Puma's registered Community design invalidated due to prior social media disclosure by Rihanna Abstract golden colour of Lindt & Sprüngli's chocolate bunny enjoys trademark protection after all EUIPO: third-party second-hand sale of Testarossa automobiles does not constitute genuine trademark use General Court ends likelihood of confusion between SFR SPORT 1 and SPORT1 for certain services ALLMAX NUTRITION v ALLNUTRITION: General Court finds likelihood of confusion based on weakly distinctive shared component Askan Deutsch advises and represents clients from Germany and abroad in all matters of intellectual property law. In particular, he has many years of experience in the field of competition, trademark, design and copyright law, including domain law as well as patent, utility model, IT and data protection law. He advises companies on the development of a trademark strategy, the design of advertising measures and websites, and the enforcement and defence of preliminary injunction and legal proceedings, as well as official proceedings before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA), German Federal Patent Court (BPatG), European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Deutsch also practises before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as a licensed attorney in New York. In addition, he advises on advertising, copyright and IT law matters, as well as the drafting of contracts and general terms and conditions and related areas. Deutsch has continuously expanded his cross-industry expertise over the years - by advising and representing companies from Germany and abroad (including the Netherlands, Switzerland, the UK and the USA) in various industries: insurance, finance, pharmaceuticals, TV/entertainment, flight portals, cosmetics, fashion/clothing, watches/jewellery, tobacco, sports, leisure, chemicals and retail. Various judgements on proceedings he was involved in have been published in major specialist journals. He regularly gives lectures and publishes specialist articles. Expertise Corporate law / M&A

Benjamin Onnis

Job Titles:
  • Lawyer / Partner / Specialist Lawyer for Employment Law / Berlin

Dr. Tassilo du Mesnil de Rochemont

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  • Lawyer / Senior Associate / München

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