Consultation hours: By appointment

Career path and academic majors

• Studied law in Frankfurt am Main and Leicester
• Legal traineeship with Major in criminal law in Darmstadt
• Research assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Dr. Jürgen Ensthaler at the Technical Universities of Kaiserslautern and Berlin
• PhD thesis at the Free University of Berlin on the antitrust prohibition of abuse of market power with regard to essential facilities in the form of intellectual property and tangible property
• Speaker at the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority in Bonn and Frankfurt
• Lecturer at the Academy of the Foreign Service in Berlin
• Lecturing activities on banking and capital markets law

Publications

Disclosure obligations in the trading of energy products on the EEX – Scope of the amended Section 15 WpHG
together with Jürgen Ensthaler, Kai Strübbe
Betriebsberater 2006, 733 ff.

An interdisciplinary view on international energy concepts – Setting up an independent system operator due to regulating competition on German energy market
together with Jürgen Ensthaler, Kai Strugbe
European Law Reporter 2006, 353 ff.

Certification and Accreditation of Technical Products:
A Guide for Companies
(with Jürgen Ensthaler, Kai Strübbe)
Heidelberg 2007

The Microsoft Case – Disclosed Interfaces and Unresolved Questions.
In: Open Source Yearbook 2008, B. Lutterbeck, M. Bärwolff and RA Gehring (eds.), Berlin 2008

Relationship between antitrust law and intellectual property law using the example of the essential facility case law of the ECJ and the General Court
together with Jürgen Ensthaler
GRUR 2009, p. 1 ff.

The Liability of Platform Operators for “Own Content” – What Influence Does a Management System Have on Dealing with Liability Risks?
(with Patrick Wege)
In: User-Generated Content as a Subject of Private Law, Proceedings of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law Conference for Assistant Researchers in October 2009, H. Große Ruse-Khan, N. Klass and S. von Lewinski (eds.), Heidelberg 2010

Market dominance through impairment of competition or vice versa? The connection between a dominant market position and the prevention of competition in the downstream market in the decision of the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) of March 3, 2009 (KZR 82/07) – Travel Agency Card,
together with Jürgen Ensthaler,
WRP 2010, p. 1109 ff.

The application of Article 102 TFEU to intellectual property and tangible property –
The conditions for the obligation to contract under Article 102 TFEU and the essential facility doctrine with particular consideration of the differences between intellectual property and tangible property.
Frankfurt 2011;
also: Berlin, Free University, Dissertation, 2011

Termination of the contract due to the contractor's failure to provide a construction security deposit - Brief commentary on BGH, judgment of 16.04.2025, VII ZR 236/23, ZIP 2025, 2224

No notice period for terminations due to personal use or redevelopment by the purchaser when selling rented residential property to a partnership - Brief commentary on BGH, judgment of 6 August 2025, VIII ZR 161/24, ZIP 2026, 93

Restrictions on termination of tenancy in the case of apartment conversion also apply when rented residential space is contributed by the sole owner to a GbR (general partnership) consisting of himself, his wife and their children - Brief commentary on BGH, judgment of 21 January 2026, VIII ZR 247/24, ZIP 2026, 1439