Handelsblatt "Germany's Best Lawyers 2025"

Yesterday, the new edition of the ‘Germany's Best Lawyers 2025’ rating was published by Handelsblatt in cooperation with the US publisher Best Lawyers:

The title ‘Lawyer of the Year for Transport Law’ goes to Dr Niels Witt.

In the ‘Ones to watch’ section, Dr. Frithjof Roschlaub was listed in the ‘Corporate Law’ category and Lara Guyot, Dr. Thomas Hohendorf, Hannah Mugler and Dr. Christoph Wiegand in the ‘Intellectual Property Law’ category. Hannah Mugler was also named in the ‘Data Protection Law’ category and, together with Helena Kasper, in the ‘IT Law’ category. Dr. Karin Deichmann and Maria Rothämel are listed in the category ‘Public Commercial Law’ and Anna-Sophia Leitner in the category ‘Conflict Resolution’.

56 lawyers from the firm are also recommended in 22 areas of law:

• Dr. Dorothee Altenburg (Art Law, Media and Entertainment, Intellectual Property Law)
• Jan M. Antholz (Restructuring and Insolvency Law)
• Nikolaus Bertermann (Data Protection Law, IT law)
• Eva Bonacker (Corporate Law)
• Jens Borchardt (IT Law)
• Dr. Markus Brock (Intellectual Property Law)
• Bettina-Axenia Bugus-Fahrenhorst (Employment Law)
• Dr Oliver M. Bühr (IT Law, Intellectual Property Law, Technology Law)
• Markus von Fuchs (Intellectual Property Law)
• Dr Philipp C. Hartmann (Insurance Law, Transport Law)
• Dr Christoph Haesner (Media and Copyright Law)
• Dr. Thomas Hausbeck (Tax Law)
• Dr. Johann Heyde (Advertising Law, IT law)
• Dr. Magnus Hirsch (Intellectual Property Law)
• Dr. Oliver Hornung (Data Protection Law, IT Law, Technology Law)
• Dr. Klaus Jankowski (Construction Law)
• Dr. Bernd Joch (Employment Law)
• Dr. Wulf Kamlah (IT Law)
• René Kieselmann (Public Commercial Law, Public-Private partnerships)
• Norbert Klingner (Media and Copyright Law, Restructuring and Insolvency Law)
• Margret Knitter (Art Law, Industrial Property Rights)
• Dr. Olaf Kreißl (Real Estate Law)
• Franziska Ladiges (Data Protection Law, IT Law)
• Christine Lingenfelser (Real Estate Law)
• Moritz Mehner (Data Protection Law, IT Law)
• Dr. Daniel Meßmer (Data Protection Law, IT Law)
• Dr. Stephan Morsch (Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions)
• Stephan Neubauer (Restructuring and Insolvency Law)
• Dr. Rembert Niebel (Intellectual Property Law, Conflict Resolution)
• Dr. Matthias Nordmann (IT Law)
• Dr. Matthias Orthwein (Data Protection Law, IT Law)
• Dr. Mathias Pajunk (Public Private Partnership)
• Dr. Stefan Peintinger (Intellectual Property Law, Data Protection Law, IT Law)
• Dr. Andreas Peschel-Mehner (Data Protection law, Media and Entertainment, IT Law, Media and Copyright Law)
• Dr. Kolja Petrovicki (Mergers and Acquisitions)
• Dr. Christoph Philipp (Family Law, Tax Law)
• Sandra Sophia Redeker (Intellectual Property Law)
• Jan-Dierk Schaal (Data Protection Law, IT Law)
• Dr Johannes Schäufele (Data Protection Law)
• Stefan C. Schicker (IT Law, Intellectual Property Law)
• Corinna Schneiderbauer (IT Law)
• Götz Schneider-Rothhaar (Media and Entertainment, Media and Copyright Law)
• Tanja Schroeder (Mergers and Acquisitions)
• Prof. Dr. Mathias Schwarz (Media and Entertainment, Media and Copyright Law)
• Martin Schweinoch (IT Law)
• Stefan Skulesch (Tax Law)
• Alexander Steinbrecher (Conflict Resolution)
• Dr. Oliver Stöckel (Advertising Law, Health Law, Intellectual Property Law, Conflict Resolution)
• Frank van Alen (Corporate Law)
• Michael Wahl (Employment Law)
• Georg Wallraf (Media and Copyright Law)
• Dr. Sebastian Graf von Wallwitz (Mergers and Acquisitions)
• Konstantin Wegner (Media and Copyright Law)
• Johanna Weiß (Media and Copyright Law)
• Julian Westpfahl (IT Law)
• Dr. Niels Witt (Transport Law)

The list of recommendations is compiled annually by the US specialist publisher Best Lawyers; in Germany, it is published in an exclusive cooperation with the Handelsblatt newspaper. The ‘Best Lawyers’ nominations are based on a peer-to-peer survey in which commercial lawyers are asked which competitors they recommend.