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My Professional Profile
I am a German qualified attorney (Rechtsanwalt) with over 30 years of international experience in major law firms and in-house with a U.S.-headquartered automotive supplier. My core legal strengths include corporate, M&A, antitrust and commerical law but I have also gained significant management experience from senior leadership roles in a major German law firm and a pan-European law firm alliance.
Professional Bio
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Cottalaw, Munich/Germany (January 2025 - Present)
- Independent Attorney and Founder of Cottalaw, advising international clients on market entry and strategic legal matters in Germany and Europe.
ADVANT Beiten (formerly Beiten Burkhardt), Munich/Germany (May 2001 - December 2024)
- Managing Partner (2019 -2023) in major German law firm with strong international focus.
- Founding President of ADVANT, a Swiss association and pan-European alliance of leading business law firms (2021 -2024).
- Member of the firm's Management Committee (2013 - 2023).
- Equity Partner (2004 - 2024) focusing on antitrust, M&A and commercial matters.
Delphi Corporation, Paris/France and Troy/Michigan (June 1999 - May 2001)
- European Counsel in the international legal department of major automotive supplier headquartered in the U.S. (spin-off from General Motors).
Freshfields, Frankfurt/London/Berlin (January 1995 - June 1999)
- Associate focusing on domestic and cross-border M&A and capital market transactions as well as antitrust matters. Admitted to practice German and European law at the Regional Court Frankfurt in December 1994.
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London/UK (October 93 - September 94)
- LL.M. program on international business law focusing on international contracts, European internal markets and European competition law.
Higher Regional Court, Munich/Germany (April 1991 - January 1994)
- Legal Traineeship (Referendariat), rotations included local and regional courts, public prosecutors office and municipal administration as well as part-time roles at law firms Beiten, Burkhardt, Mittl & Wegener in Munich and Dr. Frühbeck Abogados in Madrid.
Columbia Leyden Summer Program, Leiden/Netherlands (July - August 1992)
- Summer program on introduction to U.S. law organised by Columbia Law School.
Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich/Germany (November 1985 - September 1990)
- Undergraduate legal studies on German and European law at leading German law school.