Best Lawyers / Handelsblatt recommends a total of 88 lawyers from DLA Piper in Germany

This year, the U.S. publisher Best Lawyers has once again recognized numerous DLA Piper lawyers in Germany in various areas of law. In total, Best Lawyers recommends 88 DLA Piper lawyers this year. Compared to last year, this is an increase of 20% and over the past 5 years this means an increase of 450%, as in 2016 only 16 lawyers of DLA Piper in Germany were recommended. In addition to the individual recommendations, DLA Piper was named „Law Firm of the Year“ in the area of „Media Law“ this year.

The ranking, which was made exclusively for Handelsblatt, is based on an extensive peer-to-peer research, where only lawyers are asked about the reputation of their competitors. The U.S. publisher Best Lawyers is considered the market leader in the U.S. for evaluating lawyers. Recommendation lists of the best lawyers have been published in the US for over 25 years. For the 13th time, Best Lawyers has compiled a ranking of the best German lawyers in more than 60 areas of law exclusively for Handelsblatt.

The following DLA Piper lawyers are recommended by Best Lawyers as „Germany's Best Lawyers“:

• Dr Enno Ahlenstiel (Competition/Antitrust Law, counsel, Cologne)
• Dr Thorsten Ammann (Information Technology Law, counsel, Cologne)
• Dr Ulf Andresen (Tax Law, partner, Frankfurt)
• Dr Tim Arndt (Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Private Equity Law, partner, Frankfurt/New York)
• Dr Gunne Bähr (Insurance Law, partner, Cologne)
• Dr Emanuel Ballo (Criminal Defense, partner, Frankfurt)
• Manuel Baroch Castellvi (Insurance Law, counsel, Cologne)
• Dr Raimund Behnes (Tax Law, counsel, Frankfurt)
• Dr Florian Biesalski (Real Estate Law, partner, Frankfurt)
• Dr Kai Bodenstedt (Employee Benefits Law and Labor and Employment Law, partner, Hamburg)
• Florian Bruder (Restructuring and Insolvency Law, counsel, Munich)
• Dr Beatrice Brunn (Advertising Law, counsel, Hamburg)
• Dr David Buntenbroich (Insurance Law and Litigation, counsel, Cologne)
• Dr Philipp Cepl (Intellectual Property Law, partner, Cologne)
• Michael Cieslarczyk (Energy Law, partner, Cologne)
• Dr Philipp Clemens (Corporate Law, counsel, Hamburg)
• Mike Danielewsky (Restructuring and Insolvency Law, partner, Frankfurt)
• Sebastian Decker (Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law, partner, Hamburg)
• Dr Wolfram Distler (Banking and Finance Law, partner, Frankfurt)
• Dr Jan Dreyer (Competition/Antitrust Law and Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice, partner, Cologne)
• Sylvia Ebersberger (Information Technology Law, partner, Munich)
• Dr Björn Enders (Tax Law, partner, Frankfurt)
• Christoph Engelmann (Media Law, counsel, Hamburg)
• Gabriele Engels (Intellectual Property Law, counsel, Cologne)
• Prof Dr Stefan Engels (Information Technology Law, Intellectual Property Law and Media Law, partner, Hamburg)
• Dr Dominique Ferrari (Insurance Law, senior associate, Cologne)
• Andreas Füchsel (Private Equity Law, partner, Frankfurt)
• Dr Burkhard Führmeyer (Intellectual Property Law, partner, Frankfurt)
• Dr Thomas Gädtke (Insurance Law, International Arbitration, Litigation and Product Liability Litigation, partner, Munich)
• Dr Markus Gampp (Intellectual Property Law, partner, Munich)
• Thomas Gericke (Tax Law, counsel, Frankfurt)
• Prof Dr Ludger Giesberts (Environmental Law, Litigation and Public Law, partner, Cologne)
• Verena Grentzenberg (Data Security and Privacy Law and Media Law, partner, Hamburg)
• Verena Haisch (Media Law, counsel, Hamburg)
• Dr Martin Haller (Real Estate Law, partner, Munich)
• Dr Katia Helbig (Information Technology Law, counsel, Munich)
• Dr Wolfgang Jäger (Litigation, partner, Frankfurt)
• Dr Markus Kaul (Arbitration and Mediation, senior associate, Cologne)
• Dr Jens Kirchner (Labor and Employment Law, partner, Frankfurt)
• Guido Kleve (European Union Law and Public Law, partner, Cologne)
• Dr Nils Krause (Corporate Law, partner, Hamburg)
• Pascal Kremp (Labor and Employment Law, partner, Munich)
• Dr Friederike Landauer (Litigation, counsel, Munich)
• Dr Roland Maaß (Capital Markets Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Private Equity Law, partner, Frankfurt)
• Dr Jan Geert Meents (Data Security and Privacy Law and Information Technology Law, partner, Munich)
• Dr Andreas Meyer-Landrut (Capital Markets Law and Corporate Law, partner, Cologne)
• Fabian Mühlen (Real Estate Law, partner, Frankfurt)
• Dr Henriette Norda (Labor and Employment Law, partner, Hamburg)
• Semin O (Competition/Antitrust Law, partner, Frankfurt)
• Dr med Kokularajah Paheenthararajah (Intellectual Property Law, counsel, Cologne)
• Dr Benjamin Parameswaran (Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law, partner, Hamburg)
• Dr Jörg Paura (Corporate Law, partner, Hamburg)
• Jan Pohle (Data Security and Privacy Law and Information Technology Law, partner, Cologne)
• Dr Torsten Pokropp (Banking and Finance Law and Real Estate Law, partner, Frankfurt)
• Dr Marie-Theres Rämer (Tax Law, partner, Frankfurt)
• Lars Reubekeul (Real Estate Law, partner, Munich)
• Carlos Robles y Zepf (Mergers and Acquisitions Law, partner, Frankfurt)
• Dr Konrad Rohde (Tax Law, partner, Frankfurt)
• Dr Frank Roth (Litigation, partner, Cologne)
• Dr Mirjam Rüve (Corporate Law, counsel, Hamburg)
• Dr Thomas Schmuck (Corporate Law, partner, Frankfurt)
• Kerstin Schnabel (Corporate Law, partner, Cologne)
• Dr Christian Schneider (Insurance Law, partner, Cologne)
• Dr Sebastian Schneider (Arbitration and Mediation, counsel, Munich)
• Dr Christian Schoop (Criminal Defense, partner, Frankfurt)
• Dr Dietmar Schulz (Restructuring and Insolvency Law, partner, Munich)
• Dr Mathias Schulze Steinen (Telecommunications Law, partner, Frankfurt)
• Gerald Schumann (Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law, partner, Munich)
• Frank Schwem (Banking and Finance Law, Project Finance and Development Practice and Real Estate Law, partner, Frankfurt)
• Sven Seibold (Project Finance and Development Practice, counsel, Frankfurt)
• Dr Daniel Sharma (Arbitration and Mediation, International Arbitration and Litigation, partner, Frankfurt)
• Dr Thilo Streit (Public Law, counsel, Cologne)
• Dr Michael Stulz-Herrnstadt (Media Law, partner, Hamburg)
• Prof Dr Jürgen Taschke (Criminal Defense, senior counsel, Frankfurt) •
• Cristina Helena Villafrade (Corporate Law, counsel, Hamburg)
• Simon Vogel (Mergers and Acquisitions Law, partner, Munich)
• Dr Thilo von Bodungen (Technology Law, partner, Munich)

In addition, the following lawyers were named to the „Ones to Watch“ category for the first time this year:

• Elena Bachmann (Banking and Finance Law, senior associate, Frankfurt)
• Philipp Groll (Corporate Law, senior associate, Frankfurt)
• Lars Holst (Mergers and Acquisitions Law, senior sssociate, Frankfurt)
• Florian Jeske (Labor and Employment Law, senior associate, Hamburg)
• Dr Constanze Krenz (Intellectual Property Law, counsel, Munich)
• Philipp Moser (Real Estate Law, senior associate, Munich)
• Jörg Opelt (Arbitration and Mediation, senior associate, Munich)
• Dr Christopher Scholz (Corporate Law, senior associate, Cologne)
• Kais Torchani (Real Estate Law, senior associate, Frankfurt)
• Dr Moritz von Hesberg (Corporate Law, counsel, Hamburg)
• Dominik Wegener (Mergers and Acquisitions Law, senior associate, Hamburg)

An overview of the awarded lawyers as well as the entire Best Lawyers ranking can be found by clicking on the following Link.