BBH EXPERTS

• European State aid law
• Representation of clients before the European Court of Justice and European General Court
• European law
• Procurement law

Christoph von Donat advises clients on State aid law and other matters of European Union law. He also represents clients in legal disputes related to European Union law. His practice also encompasses the rules and regulations governing grants and funding as well as budgetary law and the collaboration of public bodies.

• Born in Luxembourg in 1963, raised in Brussels (Belgium)
• 1982-1989 studies of law in Freiburg, Aix-en-Provence (France, Maîtrise en Droit) and Bonn
• 1989-1992 legal traineeship in Berlin
• Since 1991 Treuhandanstalt, most recently as head of the administrative department in charge of relations with the federal government, the European Union and international relations
• 1998-2008 von Donat + Quardt - Rechtsanwälte, Berlin
• 2008-2024 Müller-Wrede Rechtsanwälte, Berlin
• Since 2024 lawyer and partner at BBH

• Publishes and lectures widely
• Speaker and advisor in Twinning and TAIEX projects in, for example, Romania, Cyprus, Czechia, Poland, Croatia, Turkey on restructuring and privatisation
• Lecturer at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
• Co-founder and director of Berliner Gesprächskreis zum Europäischen Beihilfenrecht e.V. (German association for European State aid law)