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Background

• Studies of German and French law in the framework of the French-German Master’s Degree at the University of Cologne and the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (Maîtrise en droit mention droits français et allemand, Master of Laws LL. M. Cologne / Paris) Legal
• First state examination (2000)
• Researcher at the Institute for Insurance Law, University of Cologne (2000 - 2003)
• Lecturer at the University of Cologne for French law (2002 - 2003)
• Legal clerkship in the district of the Higher Regional Court Cologne (2003 - 2005)
• Second state examination (2005)
• Admission as Rechtsanwalt (German lawyer) (2005)
• Joined the firm EPP & KÜHL (2005)
• Professional mediation training (CfM, (mediation centre) Cologne) 2015/16

Activities

• Head of the department contract law and IP at the Cologne office
• Litigation and extrajudicial negotiations in the areas of French and German civil and commercial law
• Advice and representation in all areas of German and French intellectual property laws (trademark, design law, copyright, warning, etc.)
• Consulting in all areas of French and German unfair competition and antitrust law
• Advice and representation in all aspects of German and French contract law, including distribution agreements, delivery contracts, sales contracts, service contracts, General Terms and Conditions
• Legal advice in the area of commercial leases under French and German law
• Advice on all aspects of Private International Law (conflict of laws)
• Mediation in conflicts of all kinds between and within companies, as well as between private individuals, in a national or international context

Publications

• Note to Federal Court of Justice, judgement of 29.1.2002, VI ZR 230/01 (together with U. Hübner), Lindenmaier-Möhring, No. 9/2002, sheet 1787
• Was ist eigentlich... Versicherungsrecht? (“What is ... Insurance Law?”) in Erklär’ mir das Recht 05/2002, LEGAmedia LEXicon, 05/2002
• Gedanken zum Schutz von Software in arabischen Staaten (“Ideas about the protection of software in Arab States”, in Ebert/Hanstein (Eds.), Beiträge zum islamischen Recht II, 2003, S. 95 ff.