“Germany’s Best Lawyers 2026/2027” – FGvW recommended by Handelsblatt and “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: 40 of our firm's lawyers are among the "Best Lawyers" in Germany and 7 are recommended as "Ones to watch".

The recommendations are distributed among the following 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, Insolvency Law and Trusts and Succession Planning.

The following lawyers from our firm are among the Best Lawyers 2026/2027 in their areas of expertise:

Dr Markus Beaumart (Real Estate Law)
Dr Elmar Bickert (Construction Law)
Dr Pierre-André Brandt (Real Estate Law)
Dr Frank Büchler (Restructuring and Insolvency Law)
Dr Stephan Dittl (Competition/Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property Law, Sports Law)
Alik Dörn (Public Law)
Dr Morton Douglas (Competition/Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property Law)
Dr Tom Erdt (Real Estate Law)
Arnt Göppert (Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
Dr Jessica Hanke (Real Estate Law)
Dr Alexander Hartmann (Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
Norbert Hebeis (Advertising Law, Intellectual Property Law, Litigation)
Dr Frank Jungfleisch (Information Technology Law)
Dr Lukas Kalkbrenner (Intellectual Property Law)
Dr Detlef Koch (Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
Sven Köhnen (Competition/Antitrust Law)
Dr Michael Körner (Public Law)
Dr Olaf Konzak (Public Law, Regulatory Practice, Environmental Law)
Gregor Lamla (Real Estate Law)
Dr Stefan Lammel (Corporate Law)
Carsten Laschet (Corporate Law, Product Liability Litigation, Insurance Law)
Prof Dr Tobias Lenz (Corporate Law, Product Liability Litigation, Insurance Law)
Sebastian von Lossow (Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Private Equity)
Claudia Maaßen (Litigation, Product Liability Litigation)
Dr Jan Henning Martens (Corporate Law)
Dr Gerrit Ponath (Trusts and Succession Planning)
Dr Hannes Reiher (Construction Law)
Dr Mario Riechmann (Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
Annette Rölz (Labor and Employment Law)
Dr Wolfgang Schmid (Intellectual Property Law)
Hildegard Schöllmann (Food and Beverage Practice)
Dr Albert Schröder (Corporate Law)
Dr Sabine Schröter (Labor and Employment Law)
Dr Ingeborg Schwarz (Intellectual Property Law)
Jörg Michael Siecke (Real Estate Law)
Dr Uwe Steingröver (Construction Law, Real Estate Law)
Volker Szpak (Real Estate Law)
Dr Hendrik Thies (Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
Mike Weitzel (Insurance Law, Corporate Law)
Dr Jörn Zons (Construction Law, Arbitration and Mediation) 

Recommended as "Ones to watch":

Dr Johanna Hennighausen (Corporate Law, Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions 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)
Moritz von Kulessa (Construction Law).

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!