Taylor Wessing has received a 5-star rating in five legal areas in this year's JUVE Handbook and has improved its ratings in the areas of environmental and planning law, labor law, advice to companies, and transport sector: financing. At the JUVE Awards 2024, which traditionally take place the day before the publication of the handbooks, Taylor Wessing Austria also won the coveted title of Law Firm of the Year Austria.

Five times five stars

In this year's JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms, the JUVE publishing house awards Taylor Wessing 5-star ratings in five categories and names the particularly recommended lawyers:

• Venture Capital
• o Dr Norman Röchert, LL.M., Dr Jens Wolf, Dr Elisabeth Schalk

• Data protection (data law)
• o Mareike Gehrmann

• Trademarks and design law
  
• o Thomas Raab, Dr. Wiebke Baars, LL.M., Olaf Gillert, LL.M., Marcus Hartmann, Andreas Bauer, Dr. Dirk Wieddekind, Dr. Thorsten Troge, Dr. Christian Tenkhoff, Sebastian Fischoeder, LL.M. and Katharina Reuer, M. Jur.
  

• Patent litigation/attorneys-at-law
• o Christoph de Coster, LL.M., Dr Gisbert Hohagen, Dr Dietrich Kamlah, Roland Küppers, LL.M., Dr Christian Lederer, Dr Anja Lunze, LL.M., Dr Jan Phillip Rektorschek

• Healthcare: hospitals, medical care centres and pharmacies
  
• o Dr Manja Epping, Dr Wolfgang Rehmann, Dr Henning Moelle, LL.M., Dr Oliver Klöck, Dr Daniel Tietjen
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Improvements and first-time mention

Taylor Wessing has improved in three areas in this year's JUVE Ranking.

• Environmental and Planning Law: 4 stars (previously 3 stars)
• o Prof. Dr. Norbert Kämper, Dr. Walter Potthast, Dr. Torsten van Jeger, Dr. Roland Schmidt-Bleker, Dr. Julia Wulff
  

• Employment law: advising companies: 4 stars (previously 3 stars)
• o Dr Kilian Friemel, Dr Oliver Bertram, Janine Krupa-Soltane, LL.M, Dr Christian Maron, Marc Gimmy

• Transport sector: financing: 3 stars (first-time mention)
• o Dr Michael Brüggemann, Michael-Florian Ranft

Taylor Wessing is Law Firm of the Year in Austria

Taylor Wessing is delighted to receive the ‘Law Firm of the Year Austria’ award, one of the most coveted awards in the legal industry in the German-speaking world. At a gala event in Frankfurt on 24 October 2024, awards were presented in a total of 18 categories, 17 of them for law firms in Germany. In the category ‘Law Firm of the Year Austria’, Taylor Wessing emerged as the winner from five nominated law firms. Further information on the award can be found in the accompanying press release.  

The JUVE Awards and the Ranking

The annual JUVE Awards recognize law firms or teams that have distinguished themselves as particularly dynamic on the basis of their work and market position over the past twelve months – both young, promising units and long-established players. In addition to professional excellence, the editorial team pays particular attention to recommendations that relate to the strategic direction, service orientation, and future potential of the players. The JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms is published every year shortly after the awards. The handbook contains extensive information and analyses of around 750 commercial law firms in Germany. Further information can be found at: https://www.juve.de/juve-rankings/deutschland/