In addition to representing clients in all private law matters Mr Wiesner concentrates on the following:

Company law

  • Disputes involving companies and enterprises
  • Design of company agreements
  • Directors’ liability
  • Company or enterprise agreements
  • Corporate transformations, changes in company structures
  • Representation of shareholder interests
  • Company law transactions in international contexts
  • Company acquisition, transfer of shareholdings and the law regarding company transformation
  • Legal status of foundations
  • Investment law, prospectus liability

Commercial law

  • General terms and conditions (AGB)
  • Creditors’ rights in cases of insolvency, security interests
  • Law on commercial representation, contracts for commercial representatives, distribution agreements
  • Assertion of claims arising from the commercial agency relationship (compensation claim)
  • Brokerage law
  • Company acquisition
  • Execution of contracts
  • Negotiating and drafting contracts
  • UN convention CISG
  • Representation in arbitration proceedings

Industrial property rights and competition law

  • Trademark law and other distinctive marks, in particular registration of and opposition to trademarks and designs 
  • Licensing, licence agreements
  • Unfair competition, advertising law
  • Warnings under competition and copyright laws, representation in all such matters
  • Law on employee inventions

IT law

  • Design of webshops
  • Data protection law
  • Contracts to transfer or buy domains,  domain-sharing and permission-to-use contracts
  • Licence agreements 
  • Projects and providers agreements 
  • Software and hardware rental/maintenance contracts
  • Contracts for software creation 
  • Web design contracts

Traffic and transportation law

  • Claims for compensation and damages for pain & suffering
  • Reimbursement of hire car costs (accident replacement tariffs)
  • Representation in criminal charges and fines
  • Design of leasing contracts
  • Design of hire contracts
  • Design of purchase contracts
  • Representation and advice on claims for warranty defects in new and second-hand vehicles
  • Driving licences
  • Insurance law
  • Claims for transport damage
  • Forwarders
  • Law relating to national and cross-border transportation of goods by road
  • Freight agreements including chief duties and liability of carrier

Public procurement law

  • Representation of bidders’ interests during contract award procedures
  • Representation in subsequent action to examine public procurements
  • Support in drafting and executing public procurement procedures

Wilko Wiesner LL.B.
Lawyer and Notary
Certified Specialist for commercial and company law
born on 03.03.1982 in Leer
married, 3 children

Vita:

2001 – 2006 Read law at Bucerius Law School and Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)
2004 Gained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)
2006 Graduated with 1st state law qualification
2006 - 2008 Academic assistant in a well-known law firm in the field of public procurement/PPP
2008 - 2010 Further legal training (Referendariat) in the jurisdiction of Bielefeld regional court (Landgericht)
2016 Appointed Notary in Langenberg
2019 Admitted as Certified Specialist for commercial and company law
2023 Specialist lawyer course inheritance law

Languages: 
English (training in legal terminology), French

Legal fields:
Commercial and company law, competition, administration, IT and traffic laws 

Member of:
Deutscher Anwaltverein (DAV) e.V. (Association of German Lawyers)
Deutsch-Australisch-Pazifische Juristenvereinigung e.V. (German-Australia Pacific Association of Lawyers)
Deutsch-irische Juristenvereinigung e.V. (German-Irish Association of Lawyers)

Lectures in 
design of contracts, succession law, IT law, building and consumer laws