Wolfgang Spoerr

Wolfgang assists corporate clients operating in technology sectors, as well as those responding to particular challenges. He is one of our administrative law and regulatory specialists and is familiar with government regulation of doing business in Germany—as highly complex as it is. He represents clients in disputes before state authorities, courts and arbitration tribunals, in particular in contentious matters concerning constitutional, administrative and social law. He advises companies and industry groups on legal questions surrounding legislation and represents companies in criminal and administrative proceedings. One particular focus of his is litigating matters centring on points of Union law before national courts and the European Court of Justice.

Together with U.S. counsel, he has guided leading European companies through proceedings before the U.S. Department of Justice and the competent German prosecutors, as well as through mutual legal assistance (MLA) proceedings.

Wolfgang is specialised in particular in law governing the digital economy and data economy, as well as in regulated contracts and their negotiation, and in the resolution of disputes occurring in this field, especially when it comes to media, communications and the internet. He has recently represented in court:

• the largest German cable network operator and a major internet company in a dispute with broadcasting and telecommunications companies about feed-in and IP peering conditions;

• Bosch in the proceedings relating to emissions;

• major European banks in criminal proceedings, as well as in fiscal and civil court proceedings, in connection with cum/ex transactions;

• a large global industrial company regarding its handling of foreign trade law and sanctions violations;

• parliamentary groups in the German Bundestag in proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court on the constitutionality of the rent cap law passed by the Berlin state government, as well as Björn Steiger Stiftung in proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court on the constitutionality of ambulance service laws

For major German hospital operators and leading providers of outpatient care, Wolfgang regularly deals with questions of medical law. He has particular expertise and many years of experience in data protection and product compliance law.