BBH EXPERTS

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

Gabriele Quardt specialises in EU State aid law and supports the European Commission as well as federal and state ministries, project developers, municipal entities and companies. She not only provides expert opinions on State aid law matters but also advises in the context of notification procedures and represents clients before the EU courts. Furthermore, Gabriele Quardt regularly holds events and (in-house) trainings on EU State aid law. 

• Born in Hamburg, three children
• 1987-1993 studies of law in Hamburg and Göttingen
• 1994-1997 various positions at Treuhandanstalt and its successor organisations BvS and BMGB in the context of privatising companies in the new federal states with a focus on EU State aid and procurement law
• 1995-1997 legal traineeship at the Court of Appeal in Berlin with a placement at the European Commission, Directorate-General for Competition
• Since 1997 lawyer
• 1998-2008 von Donat + Quardt - Rechtsanwälte, Berlin
• 2008-2024 Müller-Wrede Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB
• Since 2024 lawyer and partner of counsel at BBH
• Ranking by Handelsblatt and the US publisher Best Lawyers: recognition as one of “Germany’s top lawyers” 2024 in the area of European law
• The Legal 500 Germany (2024): listed as “leading individual” in the area of State aid
• JUVE, Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien (2023 to 2024): listed in the area of EU State aid law

• JUVE Rechtsmarkt (2024): listed in the area of EU State aid law

   

• Co-founder of Berliner Gesprächskreis zum Europäischen Beihilfenrecht e.V. (German association for European State aid law) and director until 2017
• Shareholder and managing director of Gesellschaft für Beihilfenrecht und Strukturfonds GeBS mbH (German limited liability company for State aid law and structural funds)
• Systemic mediator and coach
• Publishes and lectures widely at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Friedrich Schiller University Jena as well as the University of Cologne
• Author of the State aid blog Beihilfenblog (www.beihilfen-blog.eu)