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Taylor Wessing
BENRATHER STRAßE 15
40213 DÜSSELDORF
Germany

Work Department

Healthcare Regulatory, Healthcare Compliance

Position

Partner 

Oliver Klöck advises on regulatory healthcare law and his clients include major service providers and investors in the healthcare sector – hospitals, operators of medical care centres, laboratory companies, private equity houses, nursing home operators but also statutory health insurance companies. His practice focuses on the licensing and financing of new facilities as well as large-volume transactions, cooperations, outsourcing and PPP projects. Oliver advises his clients in particular on hospital law, the law governing authorised physicians, the law governing medical professions and the law governing statutory health insurance. He also advises on cooperations and innovative business models in the fields of e-health and telemedicine

Oliver is a member of several committees in the healthcare industry. Among them are memberships in the advisory boards of the Digital Lab of the Capital Congress Medicine and Health (Hauptstadtkongress), the Hospital Public Procurement Congress (Beschaffungskongress der Krankenhäuser) and the Integrata Foundation for Humane Use of Information Technology (Integrata-Stiftung für humane Nutzung der Informationstechnologie). Außerdem hat er einen Lehrauftrag für Gesundheitsrecht an der Hochschule Aalen. Further, he is lecturer for Healthcare Law at the University of Applied Sciences Aalen.

Career

  • 2006 Partner, Taylor Wessing
  • 2002 – 2006 Associate, Taylor Wessing
  • 2000 – 2002 Legal clerkship, Cologne
  • 1989 – 1999 Editor, newspaper Kölnische Rundschau

Languages

German, English, Spanish

Memberships

  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kassenarztrecht
  • Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Medizinrecht im Deutschen Anwaltverein
  • Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Verwaltungsrecht im Deutschen Anwaltverein
  • Forum Gesundheitswirtschaft Düsseldorf

Education

  • 2002 Admitted as a lawyer, Düsseldorf
  • 2002 Second state examination, Düsseldorf
  • 1997 Doctoral degree, dissertation on legal issues relating to waste incineration, University of Cologne
  • 1990 First state examination, Cologne
  • 1985 – 1990 Degree in law, University of Cologne

Lawyer Rankings

Germany > Public sector > Planning and environment

Taylor Wessing advises industrial companies and public sector clients on land-use planning and environmental compliance and is also regularly involved in administrative proceedings. The team is particularly well versed in emissions control, waste and contaminated sites law, which it applies in industrial construction and expansion projects, among other matters; clients also regularly draw on its expertise in product-related environmental law. While Norbert Kämper primarily acts in approval and plan approval proceedings for commercial and infrastructure projects, Oliver Klöck, who took over the practice management from Kämper in 2023, is adept in regulatory health law. André Lippert (compliance) joined CMS in May 2023.

Germany > Insurance > Advice to insurers

Taylor Wessing focuses on insurance supervision and insurance broker law. The German team is led by Gunbritt Kammerer-Galahn, who also coordinates the firm’s international financial services & insurance practice and is known for her expertise in ESG matters, insurance M&A, run-offs, reinsurance contracts as well as D&O, liability, accident and residual debt (life) insurance. Claus Peter Knufinke specialises in industrial insurance claims in connection with the settlement of property damages and Oliver Klöck is well versed in statutory health insurance law, while Karolina Lange-Kulmann focuses on regulatory matters. Franz Janssen (property and default damages as well as aviation liability) retired in September 2022.