Michael Korn

Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer)

Certified Specialist for Construction and Architectural Law

Michael Korn has been working as a lawyer in our Cologne office since 2025. He is a certified specialist for construction and architectural law. He advises clients primarily in the areas of German and international construction and plant engineering, German and international infrastructure projects (especially energy infrastructure), environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, litigation and arbitration, and international dispute resolution.

Languages

  • German
  • English
  • French
  • Russian

Practices

Publications

  • Retrofit Projects as part of Decarbonisation Strategies and Industrial Transformation Part I – Contractual Handling of Existing Plant Installation and Ongoing Operations, RInPrax 2025, 357
  • Guest in the podcast “Tiefgründig” on sustainability and contract drafting in plant and infrastructure construction. Learn more here and here.
  • Cable contracts in a cross-border market environment – Overview of actual challenges and contractual specifics from the perspective of a TSO – Part II (english), RInPrax 2025, 152 (together with Timo Pütz and Jan Hendrik Rowold, Amprion)
  • Cable contracts in a cross-border market environment – Overview of actual challenges and contractual specifics from the perspective of a TSO – Part I, RInPrax 2025, 82 (together with Timo Pütz and Jan Hendrik Rowold, Amprion)
  • Europäische Regulatorik in der Bau- und Immobilienwirtschaft – Einfluss auf die Projektentwicklung und das Vertrags- und Nachtragsmanagement (European regulation in the construction and real estate industry – influence on project development and contract and supplement management), in: Haufe Sustainability (August 2024) und in: Kleine Kniffe, Magazin für nachhaltige Beschaffung (July 2024)
  • Speaker at the IBA`27 network partner model on the circular economy: Lecture series on the Green Deal and the interface and influence of European regulation on advice and contract design in construction and real estate law (2023)