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423970

Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Responsible Business

Marvin Noussayaba Ambi Aideyan Associate

Munich

His practice focuses on providing ongoing advice to national and international clients in connection with corporate governance and stock corporation law, liability, and structural measures as well as complex (cross-border) transactions.

In addition, Marvin Aideyan assists his clients with sustainability reporting and ESG issues, including European CSRD.

Prior to joining Orrick, he worked as a research assistant and trainee lawyer for a leading German law firm and a leading global chemical company.

412133

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • General Data Protection Regulation
  • Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Technology Transactions
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)

Dr. Daniel Ashkar Counsel

Munich

Having concentrated on data privacy law since 2012, Daniel provides comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity advisory support to clients and has extensive experience in the areas of international data transfers (including on EU Standard Contractual Clauses and Binding Corporate Rules) as well as topics relating to the “Schrems II” judgment.

Daniel further drafts data privacy contracts (such as data processing agreements and joint controller agreements) as well as data privacy policies/notices and consent forms. On transactional matters, he supports clients with outsourcings and due diligences in the course of M&A transactions. Daniel also advises on data subject rights requests, data breaches and notification requirements related thereto, e-discovery requests, website tracking, marketing measures, privacy impact assessments as well as data privacy topics in the employment and reinsurance context.

He further advises on IT/IP and technology-related matters, including on contracts and matters relating to unfair and deceptive trade practices. Daniel also possesses years of experience regarding legal disputes and litigation matters and has represented clients in proceedings before different courts in Germany.

Prior to joining Orrick, Daniel was an in-house counsel for a German car maker and for one of the largest reinsurance corporations in the world. His in-house experiences at these large German multinationals allow him to understand the needs and requirements of globally operating clients.

Daniel started his career at another global law firm where he worked for several years with a focus on data privacy and litigation matters. He also wrote his doctoral thesis on data privacy law.

Jonas Bücker

Practice:

  • Employment Law & Litigation
  • Cross Border Employment Law Issues

Jonas Banse Associate

Düsseldorf

Prior to joining Orrick, Jonas had already been involved in employment law matters for several years in the course of his study-related work. During his legal clerkship, he worked, inter alia, in the policy department for collective employment law of a German multinational law firm.

385894

Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Carsten Bernauer Partner

Düsseldorf; Munich

A special focus is on the comprehensive support of start-up technology companies and their investors. In this context, he accompanies his clients through all stages of growth with the aim of providing fast and efficient support in the implementation of their growth plans and investment strategies.

His clients benefit from his extensive experience in structuring, managing and coordinating complex transactions, including all other advisors involved in the transaction. In international transactions, he has access to Orrick's comprehensive technology, private equity and venture capital platform.

Carsten Bernauer also advises on national and international corporate transactions, in particular in the field of technology, as well as on corporate restructurings.

After many years working for an American and an English commercial law firm, Carsten Bernauer joined Orrick's Düsseldorf office in 2019.

349908

Practice:

  • Private Equity
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Dr. Christoph Brenner Partner

Munich

Christoph regularly acts for private equity sponsors, corporate and strategic buyers, owners and management teams.

He is frequently recommended by Legal500, JUVE and Best Lawyers Germany for M&A and Private Equity transactions and JUVE describes him as “very experienced, fast, solution-oriented”.

Christoph leads the German Orrick offices together with Stefan Schultes-Schnitzlein.

435845

Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Energy
  • Energy Storage
  • Oil & Gas
  • Renewable Energy
  • Hydrogen
  • Solar Energy
  • Wind Energy
  • Offshore Wind

Dr. Werner Brickwedde Partner

Düsseldorf

While Werner’s corporate and M&A experience spans a broad range of industries, he has built a strong focus on and deep knowledge of the Energy & Infrastructure sector. His experience extends to acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, complex shareholder arrangements and project agreements of a variety of alternative energy and sustainability projects, including offshore wind, storage and mobility.

Werner also has extensive experience in project development, including advising on Operations & Maintenance and energy-related projects, particularly upstream and midstream. His in-depth understanding of how these projects fit together and how risk is allocated enables him to provide commercial, forward-looking advice on complex, cross-border transactions.

Werner is recommended in Germany for energy transactions (JUVE 2022/2023, Legal 500 2023), M&A (JUVE 2022/2023, Legal 500 2024, Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers 2023/24. WirtschaftsWoche 2023) and corporate law (WirtschaftsWoche 2021).

435940

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Energy
  • Energy Storage
  • Hydrogen
  • Renewable Energy
  • Wind Energy
  • Offshore Wind
  • Solar Energy

Alexander Dartsch Counsel

Düsseldorf

Alexander has many years of experience in advising national and international energy suppliers, global corporations and institutional investors across the entire value chain in the energy sector.

His work primarily involves advising on offshore wind, onshore wind, photovoltaic, and battery storage projects. He supports clients through all phases of a project, from establishing joint ventures for collaborative project development to acquiring project pipelines and investing in existing projects.

During a secondment, Alexander served a leading institutional investor specializing in infrastructure investments. He is recognized by Legal 500 Germany for his expertise in energy transactions (2023).

Alexander also advises on the drafting and negotiation of long-term power supply agreements (PPAs) for the procurement of electricity from renewable energy sources and on the associated regulatory and supervisory issues.

He has also advised on a large number of fundamental issues in the energy industry and represented clients in official and court proceedings. These include matters such as remuneration for power plant operators for redispatch measures, maintaining operational readiness of system-relevant coal-fired power plants, and the regulation of hydrogen networks.

376128

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Technology Companies Group
  • Capital Markets

Adrian Dengler Counsel

Munich

Adrian represents clients in domestic and cross-border transactions, in particular local and international companies, private equity/venture funds and growth companies.

In addition Adrian acts as a business angel for several venture capital start-up companies.

418023

Practice:

  • Antitrust & Competition
  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution

Leon Diederichs Associate

Düsseldorf

He focuses in particular on disputes in antitrust law. His work includes representing a client from the petrochemical industry in the enforcement of antitrust claims for damages against companies involved in cartels.

Already as a trainee lawyer at Orrick, he contributed to the successful action for annulment of an investment control prohibition decision before the Berlin Administrative Court.

Before becoming a lawyer, Leon Diederichs completed a stage at the German Federal Cartel Office and worked for several international law firms including Orrick.


740

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Funds
  • Restructuring
  • Private Equity

Dr. Oliver Duys, LL.M. (UNSW Sydney) Partner

Düsseldorf

With his extensive experience, he advises on complex cross-border transactions, including real estate portfolio deals, the formation of joint ventures, the establishment of funds and restructurings. He advises both national and international private equity firms, companies and fund managers and offers solutions for management participation programs and liability issues. 

Oliver Duys' expertise extends in particular to advising companies from the Middle East and India, whom he supports in a variety of international M&A projects.

Oliver Duys has been repeatedly recommended by Legal 500 and Juve and is listed as one of the best lawyers in Germany in the field of M&A by Handelsblatt. His clients value him for his confident negotiation skills and his strength in dealing with complex negotiations.

220100

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
  • Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Siegfried Elsing, Prof. Dr. LL.M. (Yale) Partner

Düsseldorf

He has acted as counsel, presiding arbitrator, sole arbitrator, or chairman in more than 300 arbitration proceedings, including ad hoc proceedings and arbitrations under the rules of the leading arbitration institutions.

As counsel, he represents private investors, international corporations, sovereign states, and state-owned enterprises in a range of significant, complex, and often cross-border disputes.

In addition to counsel work and acting as an arbitrator, Siegfried also acts as an expert witness before German courts as well as courts in the United States and the United Kingdom and before regulatory institutions.

His experience includes disputes in the areas of M&A, energy, investment protection, engineering and construction, financing, joint ventures, and intellectual property.

He is admitted to practice as an attorney-at-law in both Germany and New York.

Chambers Global 2024 describes Siegfried as a "star individual" who is "often appointed as arbitrator in complex international arbitrations" and is also "a leading practitioner in the field of investment arbitration" with "extensive experience as an arbitrator in investment law cases".

Siegfried was a member of the Advisory Board of the American Arbitration Association (2009 to 2020) and a member of the Panel of Conciliators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) (2011 to 2017). He was a member of the Board of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS) (2012 to 2022) and has been a member of the DIS Council (since 2022). He was also Chairman of the Mediation Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA) (2007-2008).

He is co-editor of the German Arbitration Journal (Zeitschrift für Schiedsverfahren (SchiedsVZ)). He regularly lectures and publishes on international arbitration and comparative law. Siegfried is also honorary professor at the Faculty of Law at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, where he has been teaching international commercial arbitration and international civil procedure law for 25 years. Since 2013, he represents the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg as Honorary Consul in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Siegfried Elsing co-founded the German law firm Hölters & Elsing in 1989 and has overseen the merger with Orrick in 2008.

Carsten Engelings Senior Associate

Düsseldorf

Carsten advises on all sorts of German tax and accounting issues arising for industry clients, financial institutions and private equity funds. Mainly focusing on corporate and real estate transactions and restructurings. He also advises and represents clients with respect to tax field audits and in tax litigation against the fiscal administration and before German fiscal and civil courts. Prior to joining Orrick Carsten completed his legal traineeship in both national and international law firms.