Profile
Following years of working as a legal adviser for a record company and being employed as an attorney in law firms specialized in entertainment law, I established my own law firm in Berlin in 2005.
My clients include national and international businesses such as record companies, music publishers, recording studios, sellers of trademarked goods, booking agencies, advertising agencies and modeling agencies, as well as musicians, composers, producers, managers, actors, directors, photographers, authors, fine artists, journalists, cartoonists, graphic designers, web designers, software developers, models, athletes and comedians.
Below is a list of the highlights in my professional career:
- Law school in Berlin and Hamburg from 1988 to 1994
- Following the first exam in 1994, doctorate at the chair of Prof. Dr. Gerrit Winter and freelancer for several law firms in Hamburg specialized in entertainment law. Parallel to this, practical training at the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandsgericht) Hamburg with stays in Hamburg and Tokyo.
- Following the second exam in 1998 in Hamburg, attorney and graduate of complementary studies in commercial law at the University of Hamburg.
- Legal adviser at ZYX Music GmbH & Co. KG from August 1999 to August 2001.
- Studies at the University of California, USA during the summer of 2001.
- Attorney for the law firm Kornmeier Kollegen from September 2001 to April 2005. Parallel to this, lecturer at the Erich Pommer Institute (seminars on trademark law in December 2003 and the founding of a label in December 2004).
- 2006: Admission to the Court of Appeal (Kammergericht) and all German higher regional courts.
Publications
- Dissertation »Verbraucherschutz durch das Bundesaufsichtsamt f�r Versicherungswesen«,
Peter Lang Verlag, 1998 - »Die Bedeutung des P-Vermerks«
- »Die Klage gegen unberechtigtes Sampling«
- »Die Verteidigung im Plagiatsprozess«
