"Germany's Best Lawyers 2025/2026" -
FGvW recommended by "Best Lawyers"

Once a year, the US publisher "Best Lawyers" asks business lawyers for their recommendations from other law firms. We are happy about the results again this year: 37 of our firm's lawyers are among the "Best Lawyers" in Germany.

The recommendations are distributed among these practice areas: Advertising Law, Arbitration and Mediation, Competition/Antitrust Law, Construction Law, Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice, Corporate Law, Environmental Law, Food and Beverage Practice, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property Law, IT Law, Labor and Employment Law, Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Private Equity Law, Product Liability Litigation, Public Law, Real Estate Law, Regulatory Practice, Restructuring and Insolvency Law.

The following lawyers from our firm are among the Best Lawyers 2025/2026 in their areas of expertise: 

Werner Bachmann (IT Law)
Markus Beaumart (Real Estate Law)
Elmar Bickert (Construction Law)
Annette Bödeker (Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
Christoph Börskens (Corporate Law)
Frank Büchler (Restructuring and Insolvency Law)
Stephan Dittl (Competition/Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property Law)
Alik Dörn (Public Law)
Morton Douglas (Competition/Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property Law)
Tom Erdt (Real Estate Law)
Arnt Göppert (Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
Jessica Hanke (Real Estate Law)
Alexander Hartmann (Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
Norbert Hebeis (Advertising Law, Intellectual Property Law)
David Kipping (Intellectual Property Law)
Sven Köhnen (Competition/Antitrust Law)
Olaf Konzak (Environmental Law, Public Law, Regulatory Practice)
Michael Körner (Public Law)
Gregor Lamla (Real Estate Law)
Carsten Laschet (Corporate Law, Insurance Law, Product Liability Litigation)
Tobias Lenz (Corporate Law, Insurance Law, Product Liability Litigation)
Claudia Maaßen (Litigation)
Jan Henning Martens (Corporate Law)
Gabi Müllejans (Intellectual Property Law)
Hannes Reiher (Construction Law)
Annette Rölz (Labor and Employment Law)
Wolfgang Schmid (Intellectual Property Law)
Hildegard Schöllmann (Food and Beverage Practice)
Albert Schröder (Corporate Law)
Sabine Schröter (Labor and Employment Law)
Ingeborg Schwarz (Intellectual Property Law)
Jörg Michael Siecke (Real Estate Law)
Uwe Steingröver (Construction Law, Real Estate Law)
Hendrik Thies (Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
Sebastian von Lossow (Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Private Equity Law)
Mike Weitzel (Insurance Law)
Jörn Zons (Arbitration and Mediation, Construction Law)

A special congratulation goes to Tobias Lenz who has been named "Lawyer of the year" for Product Liability Litigation.

Dr. Johanna Hennighausen (Corporate Law), Dr. Christian Koehler (Corporate Law), Jonas Laudahn (Corporate Law), Stephanie Mayer (Labor and Employment Law), Moritz Rothe (Corporate Law), Dr. Andreas Schubert (Labor and Employment Law) und Moritz von Kulessa (Construction Law / Real Estate Law) were named as "Ones to Watch".

Best Lawyers is one of the leading international recommendation portals for lawyers in business law. Only lawyers who have been recommended by other already listed professional colleagues in an elaborate procedure are included in the rankings. This ensures a high degree of reliability of the recommendation lists. In Germany, the rankings have been published exclusively by business publication Handelsblatt (German only) for many years.

Again, we are very happy about this success for FGvW and would like to thank everyone who contributed to it!

Contact:

Carsten Laschet
Sabine Schröter
Stefan Lammel