Career

Born in Recklinghausen in 1982. 2001 to 2007 studied law in Trier, Göttingen and Salamanca (Spain). First state examination in 2007, second state examination in 2013. 2007 to 2011 research assistant at the Chair of Public Law and European Law under Prof. Dr. Christian Calliess at Georg‑​August‑​University Göttingen and the Freie Universität Berlin.

2014 Joined the law firm.

Practice

European and German environmental, product and energy law; regional planning law; public commercial law; European law, state aid law.

Since 2020/2021 annually awarded as “Up‑​and‑​Coming in Environmental and Planning Law” or “Up‑​and‑​Coming in Public Commercial Law” (Juve Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2020/21, 2021/2022 and 2022/2023); recommended by Legal 500 in commercial administrative law.

Member of the Administrative Law Committee of the German Bar Association. Member of the editorial advisory board of the Zeitschrift für Product Compliance (ZfPC).

Advising and representing project sponsors and regulatory authorities in numerous infrastructure projects (including plan approval and lawsuit proceedings for the EUGAL and OPAL gas pipelines; lawsuit proceedings before the BVerwG on the plan approval decisions for the A 143 (western bypass Halle), BVerwG 9 A 24.19, for the coastal highway A 20, 1. BA, BVerwG 9 A 1.21 et al, for the A 14, VKE 2.2, BVerwG 9 A 7.21; project manager in supplementary proceedings for the A 39, 7th BA);

Litigation representation before the European Courts (inter alia, representation of the German Federal Government in infringement proceedings on NO₂ limit value exceedances before the ECJ (C‑635/18; C‑664/18); representation of CEN, DIN and other national standardization organizations in fundamental proceedings on document access to harmonized standards (T‑185/19; C‑588/21 P))

Advising on issues of European and German product and waste law (in particular type approval law); 2018 secondment to an international automotive manufacturer.

Publications

Publications on European, environmental and energy law. Co‑​author in: Fellenberg/​Guckelberger, Klimaschutzrecht, 2022; Jarass/​Petersen, Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetz, 2. Aufl. 2022; Säcker/​Karpenstein/​Ludwigs, Münchener Kommentar zum Wettbewerbsrecht, vol. 5: BeihilfenR, 2022; Schink/​Fellenberg, GK WHG, 2021; Grabitz/​Hilf/​Nettesheim, “Recht der Europäischen Union”; Redeker/​Uechtritz, Anwaltshandbuch Verwaltungsverfahren, 4th ed. 2019; Jarass/​Petersen, Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetz, 2014; Eckart/​Winkelmüller, BeckOK Infektionsschutzrecht.

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Languages

German, English, Spanish, French