Best Lawyers®: Top commercial lawyers in Germany 2025/2026
The renowned American publisher Best Lawyers® annually announces a list of the top commercial lawyers all over the world in 40 commercial law and tax practice areas. The research team interviews distinguished experts and colleagues for their recommendations on which lawyers outside their own firms to whom they would refer work, if they could not take on the client themselves. Lawyers are not permitted to pay any fee to participate in or be recognized by Best Lawyers. These results form the basis for a publication in the German newspaper Handelsblatt.
As “Lawyer of the Year 2025/2026” in their region, Frankfurt partner Dr. Georg Greitemann was honored for his outstanding venture capital advice, and, once again, his colleague Amos Veith in Berlin for his excellent expertise in the area of investment funds, Uwe Bärenz for his first-class expertise in the area of private funds and Dr. Andreas Richter for his outstanding competence in the area of tax law.
In addition, eleven “Ones to Watch” lawyers were included this year. This award is in recognition of attorneys who have stood out early in their careers for outstanding professional performance. These include counsels Dr. Marcus Niermann (Berlin) and Dr. Marcel Duplois (Frankfurt) for their outstanding advice in tax law and trust and succession planning, as well as Munich-based counsel Daniel Zhu for his above-average competence in the areas of corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and private equity. In addition, senior associate Angelina Seelbach was nominated for her impressing expertise in private equity and mergers and acquisition, senior associate Lukas Fellhölter for his outstanding advice in the areas of corporate law and private equity and senior associate Dr. Claudia Bracken for her expertise in private equity.
In Frankfurt, associated partner Dr. André Blischke, senior associates Caroline Ruschen and Dr. Laurenz Lipp impressed for their advice on tax law as well as senior associate Franzisca Stuckenberg for her expertise in regulatory matters.
In total, 46 POELLATH attorneys and tax advisors are listed in the current Germany edition for their expertise, many of them repeatedly and mostly in more than one practice area.
The following attorneys have been selected as the best attorneys in their areas of expertise:
- Uwe Bärenz for investment funds, private equity and private funds
- Philipp von Braunschweig for corporate law, M&A, private equity and venture capital
- Dr. Matthias Bruse for arbitration and mediation, corporate law, M&A, private equity, trusts and succession planning
- Ronald Buge for investment funds, private funds and tax law
- Dr. Peter Bujotzek for investment funds and tax law
- Dr. Matthias Durst for real estate
- Dr. Hardy Fischer for tax law
- Dr. Nico Fischer for tax law
- Dr. Katharina Gollan for non-profit and charities law
- Dr. Georg Greitemann for corporate law and venture capital
- Dr. Marcel Guenoub for real estate
- Dr. Maximilian Haag for trusts and succession planning and tax law
- Otto Haberstock for M&A, private equity and venture capital
- Gerald Herrmann for tax law
- Dr. Benedikt Hohaus for M&A, private equity and tax
- Jens Hörmann for M&A and Private Equity
- Dr. Michael Inhester for M&A, private equity and venture capital
- Tobias Jäger for M&A
- Dr. Tim Kaufhold for corporate law and M&A
- Dr. Moritz Klein for M&A
- Dr. Barbara Koch-Schulte for employee benefits law, M&A, private equity and tax
- Dr. Stefan Lebek for construction law and real estate
- Dr. Martin Liebernickel for tax law and trusts and succession planning
- Dr. Jens Linde for project financing and development practice; and banking and finance law
- Tarek Mardini for private equity, private funds, venture capital law, and investment funds
- Dr. Eva Nase for private equity and corporate
- Dr. Kay-Uwe Neumann for corporate law
- Peter F. Peschke for tax law
- Dr. Andreas Richter for tax law; and trusts and succession planning
- Dr. Philip Schwarz van Berk for investment funds, private funds, private equity law, regulatory law
- Dr. Jens Steinmüller for investment funds, private funds and tax law
- Dr. Frank Thiäner for M&A, private equity, corporate law
- Christian Tönies for corporate law, M&A, private equity and venture capital
- Dr. Stephan Viskorf for corporate law, tax law and trusts and succession planning
- Amos Veith for private equity, private funds and investment funds
- Daniel Wiedmann for competition / antitrust law
- Timo Winkelmann for real estate
