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Prof Dr Thomas Dünchheim
Work Department
Global Regulatory
Position
Partner and Head of Global Regulatory Continental Europe
Career
Thomas Dünchheim is the “Go to – Lawyer” for legal questions relating to municipal enterprises, public bank institutions, state-related transactions and gambling law. He has more than twenty years experience in the area of public law, especially public commercial law, municipal law, environmental law and construction law.
Thomas is Head of Global Regulatory Continental Europe, Head of the Hogan Lovells International Gaming Initiative and the Environmental Law Group of our law firm. He was the Office Managing Partner of the firm’s Dusseldorf office from 2016 to 2019.
Thomas holds a diploma in public administration (Diplom-Verwaltungswirt) and studied law at the University of Cologne from 1994 to 1999. From 1999 to 2009, Thomas was mayor of the city of Monheim and headed the Legal Department, the Departments Human Resources and Administration, Urban Planning and for the promotion of Trade and Industry Departments. Since 2016 he is Professor for Constitutional and Public Commercial Law at the EBS University in Wiesbaden.
Languages
English, German
Education
Universität zu Köln (2002) – PhD; Federal State of North-Rhine Westphalia (1999) – 2. State Exam; Federal State of North-Rhine Westphalia (1995) – 1. State Exam; Universität zu Köln (1991-1995) – Law; Fachhochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung NRW (1991) – Diplom-Verwaltungswirt (German Diploma in Public Administation)
Lawyer Rankings
Germany > Public sector > Commercial administrative law
(Leading individuals)The Global Regulatory practice of Hogan Lovells International LLP around public commercial lawyer Thomas Dünchheim focuses on municipal law and transaction-related compliance advice and counts large German and international companies as well as various municipalities among its client base. As a former local politician, Dünchheim has extensive expertise in budget law and is regularly instructed by large cities and municipal utilities to examine local economic and corporate law aspects of transactions and public projects as well as to assist with privatisation and re-municipalisation projects; he further possesses in-depth expertise in gambling law, which comes particularly to the fore in his regulatory advice to international clients on marketing strategies. The team is also active in dispute resolution and represents companies from the transport and TMT sectors in administrative complaint proceedings, among other matters.
Germany > Public sector > State aid
In close cooperation with its antitrust and public procurement practices, Hogan Lovells International LLP‘s state aid team advises clients from the transport, industrial and financial services sectors on a wide range of financing and funding issues as well as on state aid aspects of state stabilisation measures. While compliance expert Thomas Dünchheim assists with state aid issues pertaining to various M&A transactions and privatisation initiatives and further advises clients on state aid review proceedings, competition lawyer and practice head Marc Schweda focuses on funding projects in the transport sector and further increasingly assists with state aid effects of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation.
Germany > Public sector > Planning and environment
The environmental and planning law team at Hogan Lovells International LLP particularly focuses on compliance issues and advises both large DAX companies and international clients. The practice regularly assists with environmental compliance related to M&A transactions and public funding applications, but also comprehensively advises clients on land-use planning and soil protection due diligence in the context of real estate transactions; the key contact for these matters is practice head Thomas Dünchheim. Alongside supply chain due diligence expert Christian Ritz, he also increasingly advises companies on their ESG initiatives. The team further handles product-related issues; here, clients predominantly rely on the skills of Florian Unseld and Patrick Ayad, who has particular industry expertise in the automotive sector.
Germany > Public sector > Public procurement
Hogan Lovells International LLP‘s procurement team primarily acts on the bidding side and represents large companies in bidding and review procedures that serve politically relevant projects such as EU-wide vaccine procurement or the expansion of the German energy and fast-charging infrastructure. Here, the group regularly advises across practice groups, including on regulatory procurement issues in connection with public-sector transactions or third-country subsidies. Thomas Dünchheim is a key contact for procurement advice at the interface to corporate law, while practice head Marc Schweda is an expert in procurement and competition law issues; the latter advises companies from the energy and healthcare sectors as well as the defense industry.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals Germany > Public sector > Commercial administrative law
- Commercial administrative law Germany > Public sector
- Planning and environment Germany > Public sector
- Public procurement Germany > Public sector
- State aid Germany > Public sector
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Compliance > Compliance
- Industry focus > Healthcare and life sciences
- Compliance > Internal investigations
- Intellectual property > Patent litigation: solicitors
- Dispute resolution > Product liability
- Real estate and construction > Project development
- Intellectual property > Trade marks
- Trade and distribution > Trade, distribution and logistics
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Antitrust
- Dispute resolution > Arbitration (including international arbitration)
- Public sector > Commercial administrative law
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
- Real estate and construction > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Corporate and M&A > Corporate
- Information technology > Data protection
- Industry focus > Energy
- Banking and finance > Financial services: regulatory
- Information technology > Information technology and digitalisation
- Information technology > IT transactions and outsourcing
- Banking and finance > Project finance
- Real estate and construction > Real estate
- Capital markets > Structured finance and securitisation
- Intellectual property > Unfair competition
- Private equity > Venture capital
- Transport > Advice to the transport sector
- Capital markets > Debt capital markets
- Capital markets > Equity capital markets
- Trade and distribution > Foreign trade law
- Corporate and M&A > M&A
- Intellectual property > Patent litigation: patent lawyers
- Public sector > Planning and environment
- Public sector > Public procurement
- Restructuring and insolvency > Restructuring
- Public sector > State aid
- Consumer goods and food law
- Banking and finance > Fintech
- Banking and finance > Real estate finance
- Tax
- Employment
- Banking and finance > Lending and borrowing
- Private equity > Transactions