Our Team

• Since 2006 – independent practise – Hamburg, Germany
• Allen & Overy LLP - Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg
  (2001 - 2005)
• Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP - Frankfurt am Main
  (1997 - 2000)

• advising the German Alfred Talke special logistics group on the acquisitions of Hammer Logistik S.A., a Luxembourg dry bulk logistics company and Kruse Logistic Services, a German petrochemical logistics provider operating in the Leverkusen and Dormagen Chempark
• advising the Verder Group (the Netherlands) on the acquisition of Gero Hochtemperaturöfen GmbH
• advising Struik Foods (the Netherlands) on the acquisition of Sonnen Bassermann, a large German soup and readymeal producing business and brand, from the Heinz Group
• advising the German insolvency administrator Ottmar Hermann on the disposal of Karmann car roof systems and engineering businesses and on the restructuring and disposal of German Woolworth retail businesses
• advising Global Energy Services Siemsa, S.A. (Spain) on the acquisition of the German WKA group (rotorblade service provider)
• advising Superior Energy Services, Inc. (global provider of specialised oil and gasfield services) on the acquisition of Balance Point Control Germany
• advising a UK investor consortium on the acquisition of an automotive industrial park near Stuttgart from REWE-Süd
• advising an Irish financial institute on the financing of  German real estate portfolios valued at over EUR 450 million
• advising the German insolvency administrator Ottmar Hermann on the disposal of German car dealership chain Georg von Opel
• advising GE in connection with its plastics joint venture with Bayer Leverkusen
• advising Edinburgh House on the acquisition of a logistics center from Tchibo AG under a sale-lease-back arrangement
• advising H&R Wasag AG on the acquisition of the group businesses and shares comprising the BP global special products business
• advising GE on the disposal of the CompuNet group to Computacenter Plc.

• Negligence of the claimant and multiple tortfeasors under German and US products liability, 2004, Verlag Versicherungswirtschaft (in German)
• Separated option rights and naked warrants, BankR 4/2002, 150 et seq. (in German)
• Germany: allocation of liability and damages between multiple liable parties under products liability, PHi 2/2002, 62 et seq. (in German)

• University of Bonn, Germany
• University of Frankfurt am Main (Dr. jur.)
• Rye, New York (1979-1983)
• Athens, Greece (1983-1985)

German, English, French, Greek