In each edition of our international newsletter, we introduce you to one of our lawyers. Today, it is the turn of David Kipping from our Cologne office.

David Kipping is a lawyer and partner in our Cologne office since October 2015. He was born in Cologne in 1977 and grew up in the Cologne area. Due to his passion for languages and in particular the French language, its people and the country, his first serious career aspiration in school was to become a journalist and foreign correspondent. When the time for his Abitur exam came closer, he was intent on studying French and history to become a teacher.

That changed when his mother showed him a newspaper article in which a new German-French law study program at the University of Cologne and the Parisian Sorbonne University was enthusiastically described. The law? That sounded respectable and interesting. And the prospect of studying at the famous Sorbonne University sounded almost like Harvard or Yale.

During his studies in Cologne and Paris, David Kipping started a part-time employment at a law firm which was specialized in intellectual property law. This practice area had fascinated him from the very beginning, because the cases are taken right from real life. To be able to be part of the creation of advertising campaigns, product designs or entire trademarks, and to then encounter these in everyday life, on the supermarket shelf or in TV ads is something that really makes his work as a lawyer true-to-life and satisfying for David.

As a seasoned lawyer, David especially enjoys working with clients from different industries, different countries, with diametrically opposed business cultures and business personalities. The possibility to cooperate with so many different businesses, to provide them with responsible advice and to contribute to their economic success is what makes the legal profession so unique for David.
In his leisure time, David is passionate about ice hockey. Although he hung up the skates as an amateur player a few years ago, he continues to be a fan of the fastest team sport of the world, and keeps playing inline hockey with his kids.