BBH EXPERTS

• Procurement law
• Energy law
• Economic administrative law, including the rules and regulations governing public transport
• European law
• Constitutional law

Dr. Sascha Michaels currently focuses on advising local authorities and public companies (particularly municipal energy utility and transport companies) on procurement and State aid law. His practice ranges from assessing and reviewing individual legal aspects to providing comprehensive advice on the design of tender procedures. Dr. Sascha Michaels also represents clients in court and before public procurement tribunals.

• Born in Bad Salzungen (Thuringia) in 1972
• 1991-1996 studies of law at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• 1996-1999 research assistant at the chair of public law, international and European law (Prof. Dr. Werner Meng) at Halle University
• 1999-2001 legal traineeship at the Court of Appeal, Berlin
• Since 2001 lawyer at BBH Berlin
• 2002 doctorate in law (Dr. iur.) at Halle University on a topic of European law
• Since 2010 partner counsel at BBH
• Since 2017 specialist lawyer for procurement law
   
• Ranking by Handelsblatt and the US publisher Best Lawyers: recognition as one of “Germany’s top lawyers” in the area of energy law 2022, 2023 and 2024
• Member of the German Bar Association, Association of German Jurists, the Working Group “Procurement Law” of the German Bar Association and forum vergabe e.V.
• Lectures widely on his areas of expertise; numerous publications particularly on procurement law as well as various other fields of public and European law