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Studied in Göttingen, Lausanne and Los Angeles; clerkship at OLG (Regional Court of Appeals) Hamburg; Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of California, Los Angeles; admitted to the German bar since 1984.
Until 1994 in-house lawyer and Head of the Group Legal Department of a Munich film company; thereafter partner of a pan-regional law firm at its Munich office specialising in media and entertainment law; partner/lawyer in the own law firm since 2006.
Main areas of practice:
- Copyright and Publishing Law
- Media Law (Broadcasting Law)
- Press Law and Freedom of Speech
- Trademark and Competition Law
Providing in and out of court advice to the media, cultural and creative industries, such as in particular film and television productions as well as production financing, licensing of rights, television broadcasters, telemedia services, internet providers and publishing houses.
Publications and lectures; co-author of "Hamburger Kommentar Gesamtes Medienrecht"(http://www.nomos-shop.de/13464); arbitrator of the European Filmexport Association (EFEA) at the International Court of Arbitration (Paris); recommended by the JUVE Handbook of German Commercial Law Firms for the area of "Media" and ranked as a top commercial lawyer in Best Lawyers (US professional journal/trade journal) for the area of media law; member of GRUR (Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht), Institut für Urheber- und Medienrecht.
Foreign languages: English, French
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