Excellent Career Opportunities: GvW Appoints Eight New Partners

The growth from within the firm’s own ranks continues: GvW Graf von Westphalen has elected eight new partners with effect from 1 January 2025. This means that the firm has admitted 30 lawyers to the partnership within the last three years.

At this year's meeting of the lawyers in Frankfurt, Marius Bodenstedt, Tanja Galander, Dr Michael Herold, Saskia Soravia and Dr Peter Trösser were elected as equity partners.

Marius Bodenstedt has been working as a lawyer at GvW in Hamburg since he started his career. As a specialist lawyer in labour law, he advises companies as well as public corporations on all matters of individual and collective labour law. His additional areas of expertise include employee data protection law and company pension schemes.

Tanja Galander is a member of the Foreign Trade & Customs practice group at the Berlin office and specialises in sanctions law (in particular, Russia and Belarus sanctions). In addition, she advises companies on exiting Russia, selling Russian investments and investing in Eastern Europe. She is also co-editor of the Journal of Foreign Trade, Sanctions and Foreign Investment Law (ZASA – Zeitschrift für das Recht der Außenwirtschaft, Sanktionen und Auslandsinvestitionen).

Dr Michael Herold has been working for GvW at the Frankfurt and Stuttgart offices since starting his career as a lawyer in 2017. The lawyer and the TÜV-certified data protection officer advises companies and organisations on IT and data protection law. His main focus is on advising on IT security law (cybersecurity); among other things, he prepares his clients for the new obligations of the second Network and Information Security (NIS2) Directive.

Saskia Soravia is a specialist lawyer for administrative law in Hamburg. Her main area of expertise is in specilised planning law. She advises authorities and project developers on extensive infrastructure projects in the road, rail, water and energy sectors. Adittionally, she works in feed and agricultural law.

Dr Peter Trösser joined GvW as an Associated Partner in October 2023. The Frankfurt-based partner is the new deputy head of the firm's Healthcare & Life Sciences focus area and primarily advises clients from the healthcare sector on regulatory matters, M&A transactions and corporate housekeeping.

Lena Biendl, Sophia Volk and Dr Gabriel Wittmann were elected as new Associated Partners.

Lena Biendl works as a lawyer at the Munich office,  specialising in restructuring and insolvency. In addition to insolvency law litigation, she specialises in advising on the design and implementation of out-of-court reorganisations and insolvency proceedings.

Sophia Volk has been part of GvW's Berlin team since 2019. As a member of the Corporate/M&A practice group and the Hospitality – Hotels & Resorts focus area, she primarily advises her clients on corporate law at the interface with real estate law.

Dr. Gabriel Wittmann, also known as #doktorIP, primarily advises his international and national clients from the Munich office on all contentious and non-contentious issues related to patent law, trade secret and know-how protection, as well as design and trademark law.