Graf von Westphalen advises entrepreneurs, commercial agents and associations from all sectors on all matters of national and international law applicable to commercial agents and distribution law. We particularly help entrepreneurs with the structuring of distribution systems, contract design and judicial disputes. We advise commercial agents on contract design and judicial proceedings.

Our key area of expertise covers contract design, conduct of negotiations and judicial disputes, including disputes involving claims to compensation in accordance with § 89b of the German Commercial Code (HGB). We cover all relevant areas, including insurance agent, European and labor law (pseudo self-employment) as well as competition and sales cartel law.

Numerous members of our team are active members of associations of sales agents and entrepreneurs. Based on their special area of expertise, some of them serve as legal counsel to these associations.

Over the past few decades, we have won numerous landmark decisions on commercial agent law in all sales areas, including capital investment, insurance, merchandise and mineral-oil sales. Accordingly, the "JUVE Handbuch für Wirtschaftskanzleien 2009/2010," Germany's most respected guide to commercial and corporate law firms, lists us as one of the leading firms in the area of distribution law.