The Best Lawyers in Germany™ 2026 recognizes 55 Jones Day lawyers across 29 practice areas
The 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in Germany™, in cooperation with Handelsblatt, one of Germany's leading business publications, recognized 55 Jones Day lawyers across 29 different areas of practice from Jones Day's Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, and Munich offices. Four lawyers were named to the list for the first time, and 12 lawyers were named "One to Watch."
The lawyers named and their practices are below:
Düsseldorf
- Dr. Julius Arden - Labor and Employment Law; Litigation (One to Watch)
- Dr. Philipp Berrsche - Real Estate Law (One to Watch)
- Dr. Ulrich Brauer - Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Dr. Paul Melot de Beauregard - Employee Benefits Law; Labor and Employment Law
- Dr. Jakob Guhn - Art Law; Intellectual Property Law; Litigation
- Ralf Recknagel - Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Christian Schmitt - Criminal Defense (One to Watch)
- Kevin M. Wilcock - Competition/Antitrust Law
- Dr. Johannes Zöttl - Competition/Antitrust Law
Frankfurt
- Martin Bär - Banking and Finance Law (One to Watch); Data Security and Privacy Law (One to Watch); International Arbitration (One to Watch); Litigation (One to Watch)
- Dr. Jürgen Beninca - Competition/Antitrust Law
- Dr. Olaf Benning - Restructuring and Insolvency Law
- Dr. Michael R. Fischer - Banking and Finance Law
- Dr. Carsten T. Gromotke - Competition/Antitrust Law
- Michiel A. Huizinga - Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Private Equity Law
- Dr. Nicole Kadel - Real Estate Law
- Amy Kläsener - Arbitration and Mediation; International Arbitration; Litigation
- Christian A. Krebs - Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Ulf Kreppel - Asset Finance Law; Banking and Finance Law
- Markus Ledwina - Private Equity Law; Restructuring and Insolvency Law
- Claudia Leyendecker - Banking and Finance Law
- Dr. Karsten Müller-Eising - Capital Markets Law; Corporate Law; Debt and Equity; Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Dr. Holger Neumann - Public Law; Telecommunications Law
- Frederic A. Oest - Banking and Finance Law (One to Watch)
- Johannes Perlitt - Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice; Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Mathias Raabe - Investment Funds
- Sebastian Schwab – Litigation (One to Watch); International Arbitration (One to Watch)
- Oliver Staatz - Tax Law (One to Watch)
- Dr. Dieter Strubenhoff - Arbitration and Mediation
- Bijan Tavakoli - Regulatory Practice (One to Watch)
- My Linh X. Vu-Grégoire - Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Dr. Dorotheé M. Weber-Bruls - Intellectual Property Law; Patent Attorney
- Dr. Johannes P. Willheim - Arbitration and Mediation; International Arbitration; Litigation
- Dr. Nicolas Wittek - Banking and Finance Law
Munich
- Alexander Ballmann - Restructuring and Insolvency Law
- Dr. Michael Bartosch - Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Maximilan Baur - Labor and Employment Law (One to Watch)
- Christine Borries - Restructuring and Insolvency Law
- Dr. Christian B. Fulda - Biotechnology Law and Life Sciences Practice; Pharmaceuticals Law
- Marc F-X. Groebl - Intellectual Property Law
- Gerd Jaekel - Intellectual Property Law; Litigation
- Max Kober – Intellectual Property Law (One to Watch)
- Dr. Martin Kock - Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Private Equity Law
- Maximilian P. Krause - Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Dr. Martin Lotz - Data Security and Privacy Law (One to Watch)
- Dr. Christian Paul - Intellectual Property Law; Litigation
- Ivo Posluschny - Private Equity Law
- Ansgar C. Rempp – Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Private Equity Law
- Stefan Schneider - Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Private Equity Law
- Maximilian Schott - Mergers and Acquisitions Law (One to Watch); Private Equity Law (One to Watch)
- Martin Schulz –Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Private Equity Law
- Friederike Steininger - Labor and Employment Law; Litigation
- Adriane U. Sturm - Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Christian Trenkel - Real Estate Law
- Dr. Undine von Diemar - Data Security and Privacy Law; Information Technology Law
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