GERMANY TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS Contributed by: Daniel Möritz, Jan Bonhage, Hendrik Bockenheimer, Carl-Philipp Eberlein, Markus Ernst, Matthias Rothkopf, Christoph Wilken and Alexander Rang, Hengeler Mueller
Markus Ernst is a partner in Hengeler Mueller’s tax group, where his clients include German and foreign companies, financial institutions and private equity firms. Markus advises on tax issues in connection with
Christoph Wilken is a partner in Hengeler Mueller’s competition group. He advises on German and EU competition law and merger control cases – representing clients before the EC and the German Federal Cartel
transactions, reorganisations, financing transactions, tax audits and contentious proceedings. Another focus of his work is on assisting financial institutions in tax-driven internal investigations and with the analysis of tax-motivated structures, in addition to representing them in their dealings with tax and criminal authorities.
Office, as well as before the EU and German courts. Christoph’s practice covers abuse of dominance and cartel investigations, merger control proceedings, compliance trainings/audits, aspects of day-to-day business, and follow-on damage claims litigation.
Alexander Rang is a partner in Hengeler Mueller’s capital markets group. He has a broad equity capital market and debt capital market
Matthias Rothkopf is a partner at Hengeler Mueller, where he advises on German and EU IP law and competition law – notably, patent law and other technology-related aspects of IP law, technology licensing, and
practice, advising issuers and banks on IPOs, capital raises, block trades and private placements, as well as on equity-linked instruments and hybrid bonds. Alexander also advises financial institutions on capital market transactions driven by specific regulatory considerations.
R&D agreements. Matthias represents clients before the Unified Patent Court, all German courts, and German and EU competition authorities. He regularly advises investors on IP- and licensing-related aspects of M&A transactions, including complex IP carve-outs and IP dual-use issues, as well as the evaluation of threats from IP litigation and new types of IP use.
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