The Best Lawyers in Germany™ 2025 recognizes 53 Jones Day lawyers across 28 practice areas

The 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in Germany™, in cooperation with Handelsblatt, one of Germany's leading business publications, recognizes 53 Jones Day lawyers across 28 different areas of practice from Jones Day's Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, and Munich offices. Seven lawyers were named to the list for the first time, and nine 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. 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
• Dr. Markus Kappenhagen - Employee Benefits Law; Labor and Employment Law; Litigation
• Claudia Leyendecker - Banking and Finance Law
• Thomas C. Mahlich - Arbitration and Mediation; Litigation
• Mathias Raabe - Investment Funds
• Ralf Recknagel - Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• Ansgar C. Rempp - Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Private Equity Law
• Dr. Markus Weber - Private Equity Law
• Kevin M. Wilcock - Competition/Antitrust Law
• Dr. Johannes Zöttl - Competition/Antitrust Law

 Frankfurt

• Dr. Jürgen Beninca - Competition/Antitrust Law
• Dr. Olaf Benning - Restructuring and Insolvency Law
• Dr. Philipp Berrsche - Real Estate Law (New and One to Watch)
• Dr. Michael R. Fischer - Banking and Finance Law
• Dr. Carsten T. Gromotke - Competition/Antitrust Law
• Thomas A. Hoff - Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Private Equity Law (One to Watch)
• 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
• Nils C. Kupka - Arbitration and Mediation; International Arbitration; Litigation (One to Watch)
• Markus Ledwina - Private Equity Law; Restructuring and Insolvency Law
• Dr. Karsten Müller-Eising - Capital Markets Law; Corporate Law; Debt and Equity; Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• Dr. Holger Neumann - Telecommunications Law
• Johannes Perlitt - Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice; Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• Oliver Staatz - Tax Law (One to Watch)
• Dr. Dieter Strubenhoff - Arbitration and Mediation (New)
• Bijan Tavakoli - Regulatory Practice (New and 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. Nick Wittek - Banking and Finance Law (New)

Munich

• Alexander Ballmann - Restructuring and Insolvency Law
• Dr. Michael Bartosch - Mergers and Acquisitions Law (New)
• Maximilan Baur - Labor and Employment Law (One to Watch)
• Dr. Christian B. Fulda - Biotechnology Law and Life Sciences Practice; Pharmaceuticals Law
• Anna Geissler - Restructuring and Insolvency Law (New)
• Marc F. Groebl - Intellectual Property Law
• Gerd Jaekel - Intellectual Property Law; Litigation
• 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 (New and One to Watch)
• Dr. Christian Paul - Intellectual Property Law; Litigation
• Ivo Posluschny - Private Equity Law
• Stefan Schneider - Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Private Equity Law
• Maximilian Schott - Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Private Equity Law (One to Watch)
• Friederike Steininger - Labor and Employment Law
• Adriane U. Sturm - Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• Christian Trenkel - Real Estate Law
• Dr. Undine von Diemar - Data Security and Privacy Law; Information Technology Law