Bonn, 4 June 2025. Hans‑Werner Behrens, former Chairman of the 1st Federal Procurement Chamber, has been supporting the firm's public procurement law team as Of Counsel since 1 June 2025. Until his retirement at the end of 2024, Hans‑Werner Behrens worked at the Federal Cartel Office from 2000, where he acquired wide‑ranging expertise in public procurement law. Previous to this, he worked for several years at the Federal Ministry of Economics and, further back, in the automotive industry.
“We are delighted to have found a colleague in Hans‑Werner Behrens who offers an excellent addition to our team and our array of legal advisory services in Bonn,” remarked Dr Matthias Ganske, head of the Public Procurement Law Practice Group, on the new addition.
“After many years working with the public supervisory authorities, I am now looking forward to tackling new challenges in the field of public procurement law from a lawyer's perspective,” comments Hans‑Werner Behrens on his start at Redeker Sellner Dahs.
The Public Procurement Law Practice Group at Redeker Sellner Dahs is made up of 13 specialised lawyers. They practice throughout Germany, advising, assisting and supporting the public sector as well as private companies across a broad spectrum in the preparation and execution of national and international public procurement procedures (structuring of the procurement process, drafting of tender documents, contractual agreements and their negotiation, etc.), privatisations and public‑private as well as public‑public partnerships. They advise bidders on participating in procurement procedures, in particular the preparation of requests to participate, tenders and – wherever necessary – complaints. Finally, they act as counsel for clients and bidders in review proceedings before public procurement tribunals, superior regional courts and the European Court of Justice as well as in connection with damage claims. The Practice Group's lawyers have been among the leading names in the field of public procurement law for many years and are recommended on a regularly basis by inter alia Juve, Wirtschaftswoche and Legal 500.
