Legal 500 Germany 2025:
FGvW again named top tier law firm

We are pleased to be recommended in the current ranking of The Legal 500 Germany 2025 in 15 legal practice areas: plant construction, employment law, construction law (including dispute resolution), waste management and waste law, corporate law, health, trade, distribution and logistics, real estate law, information technology & digitization, M&A (mid-sized deals), trademark law, medical law, insurance law (dispute resolution), environmental and planning law and competition law. We were ranked as a top law firm in the three areas of plant construction, waste management and disposal law, and medical law. Prof. Dr. Tobias Lenz in insurance law (dispute resolution) and Dr. David Kipping LL.M. in trademark and competition law are considered “leading partners”.

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We were particularly pleased to receive positive feedback from our clients, such as this:

“In-depth legal knowledge combined with good negotiation skills; very good accessibility and availability, even with short deadlines.“

”Very good, networked team.“

”A distinctly partnership-based approach, creativity and solution orientation, personal commitment to the client's goals.”

“Very customer-oriented, coupled with constructive solution proposals, without losing sight of practical feasibility.“

”With the help of the law firm, we were able to steer previous case law on a specific topic in a different direction with legal and factual persuasion.“

”Great team, perfect execution and collaboration, absolutely transparent billing.”

Recommended Practice Areas

The following lawyers are recommended in their respective practice areas (as no English translations of the editorial texts are available, links go to the relevant German entries):

Plant Construction:

Dr. Markus Beaumart
Justus Kraner
Dr. Hannes Reiher
Dr. Friederike Schäffler, Maître en droit
Dr. Uwe Steingröver
Dr. Jörn Zons

Employment law:

Dr. Stefan Daub
Dr. Christoph Fingerle
Sven Köhnen
Stephanie Mayer
Annette Rölz
Dr. Sabine Schröter

Construction law (including dispute resolution):

Dr. Markus Beaumart
Justus Kraner
Dr. Hannes Reiher
Dr. Friederike Schäffler, Maître en droit
Dr. Uwe Steingröver
Dr. Jörn Zons

Waste management and waste law:

Dr. Olaf Konzak
Dr. Michael Körner LL.M. (Cape Town)
Robert H.D. Reimer LL.M.

Corpoprate law:

Dr. Annette Bödeker LL.M. (Indiana)
Arnt Göppert LL.M. (McGill)
Dr. Alexander Hartmann
Dr. Christian Koehler LL.M.
Jonas Laudahn
Dr. Albert Schröder
Dr. Hendrik Thies

Health:

Dr. Morton Douglas
Dr. Meike Kapp-Schwoerer
Dr. Jan Henning Martens
Dr. Sabine Schröter
Dr. Hendrik Thies

Trade, distribution and logistics:

Dr. Stephan Dittl
Dr. Frank Jungfleisch
Dr. Meike Kapp-Schwoerer
Sven Köhnen
Jonas Laudahn
Dr. Jan Henning Martens
Dr. Hendrik Thies

Real estate law:

Dr. Markus Beaumart
Dr. Elmar Bickert
Dr. Tom Erdt
Dr. Jessica Hanke
Gregor Lamla
Dr. Friederike Schäffler, Maître en droit
Jörg Michael Siecke
Dr. Uwe Steingröver

Information technology & Digitization:

Dr. Frank Jungfleisch
Dr. Lukas Kalkbrenner LL.M.

M&A (mid-sized deals):

Tina Bieniek
Arnt Göppert LL.M. (McGill)
Dr. Alexander Hartmann
Dr. Meike Kapp-Schwoerer
Dr. Stefan Lammel
Jonas Laudahn
Dr. Jan Henning Martens
Dr. Albert Schröder
Dr. Christina Schröter LL.M. (Aberdeen)
Dr. Hendrik Thies

Trademark law:

Dr. Stephan Dittl
Dr. Morton Douglas
Norbert Hebeis
Eva Kessler
Dr. David Kipping LL.M.

Medical law:

Dr. Morton Douglas
Dr. Meike Kapp-Schwoerer
Dr. Jan Henning Martens
Dr. Sabine Schröter
Dr. Hendrik Thies

Insurance law (dispute resolution):

Carsten Laschet
Prof. Dr. Tobias Lenz
Claudia Maaßen LL.M.
Jerome Nimmesgern LL.M.
Mike Weitzel

Environmental and planning law:

Dr. Olaf Konzak
Dr. Michael Körner LL.M. (Cape Town)
Robert H.D. Reimer LL.M.

Competition law:

Dr. Stephan Dittl
Dr. Morton Douglas
Norbert Hebeis
Eva Kessler
Dr. David Kipping LL.M.

We would like to express our sincere thanks to everyone who contributed to this great result!

Sabine Schröter