BBH group strengthens its management team with appointment of new partners as of 01/01/2025

The BBH group continues its growth course expanding its management team as of 01/01/2025. In addition to the newly arrived partners Dr. Dirk Koch and Thomas Krebs as announced in December 2024, four outstanding BBH specialists joined the partnership in the latest round of appointments: Sophia von Hake, Dr. Maximilian Festl-Wietek, Dennis Tischmacher and Julien Wilmes-Horváth.

Recent political developments have demonstrated once again that the path to deliver climate neutrality is challenging and exceedingly complex for all parties involved. Thanks to the BBH group’s depth and breadth of expertise, its more than 7,000 clients can rely on sound advice to help them navigate these dynamic times. To remain excellently positioned to meet its clients‘ needs, the firm’s management team is being expanded at the beginning of the year.

BBH group’s new partners as of 01/01/2025:

Sophia von Hake has been working as a lawyer and tax advisor at BBH’s Munich office since 2018. The specialist lawyer for tax law assists companies in designing and optimising restructuring processes and provides tax advice to public sector entities with a focus on their associated companies, mergers and acquisitions.

Dr. Maximilian Festl-Wietek joined the BBH group’s Munich office in 2016. In his practice, the specialist lawyer for information technology law as well as copyright and media law focuses on IT and data protection law, competition and trademark law as well as copyright and media law.

Dr. Dirk Koch, lawyer and tax advisor, joins the BBH group from the law firm GSK Stockmann, where he most recently held the position of equity partner. The specialist lawyer for tax law advises clients on tax law in the context of corporate and real estate transactions, company conversions, business acquisitions, sales and successions as well as international tax law. Here you can find our press release on his joining the BBH group as a partner. 

Thomas Krebs, experienced specialist lawyer for labour/employment law and mediator, joins the BBH group as a partner at the Munich office from 01/01/2025. The firm thus strengthens its labour/employment law practice as companies undergoing transformation have an increasing need for advice on such matters. Here you can find our press release on his joining the BBH group as a partner. 

Dennis Tischmacher has been working as a lawyer at the BBH group‘s Berlin office since 2009. He advises clients on all issues in the field of concession law. In addition to concession procedures, concession fees and grid takeovers as a main focus of his work, he also assists companies in the context of cooperation, transformation and remunicipalisation projects in the electricity, gas, water, heat and hydrogen sectors.

Julien Wilmes-Horváth is a specialist lawyer for information technology law and has been working at the BBH group’s Cologne office since 2017. He assists clients with all types of fibre-optic roll-out projects and advises them on IT and telecoms issues, particularly within FTTH, IoT, green IT and smart city projects. Moreover, he specialises in AI law and general business law. 

With the appointment of these six outstanding individuals to the BBH partnership, the BBH group is demonstrating its deep commitment to supporting its clients in all their endeavours with top-notch expertise and innovative strength.

With more than 700 employees, 7,000 clients and 7 offices, the BBH group is a leading provider of advisory services to energy and infrastructure companies and their customers. Energy and supply companies, particularly public utilities, municipalities and local authorities, industrial companies and international groups are among its core clients. The BBH group assists these and many other companies and organisations with legal, business and strategic advice.

Contact:                                                                           
Prof. Dr. Ines Zenke                                                      
Rechtsanwältin/Lawyer, Partner                                         
Phone +49 (0)30 611 28 40 - 179                                     
ines.zenke@bbh-online.de                                       

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