Robert advises on national and cross-border M&A transactions as well as joint ventures. His clients include numerous international technology companies and he also advises a large number of family businesses on governance and succession issues. Robert is Dutch and Honorary Consul for the Netherlands in Hamburg as well as chairman of the supervisory board of OHB SE, a leading German space technology company.
Robert is a member of the Management Board of Taylor Wessing Germany.
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Career
| Since 1997 | Partner, Taylor Wessing |
| 1994 – 1997 | Associate, Taylor Wessing |
| 1992 – 1994 | Associate, Freshfields (formerly Bruckhaus Westrick Stegemann) |
Education
| 1993 | Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law, New York |
| 1992 | Admitted as a lawyer, Hamburg |
| 1992 | LL.M., New York University |
| 1991 | Second state examination, Berlin |
| 1988 | First state examination, Hamburg |
Memberships & Associations
| M&A Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association (ABA) Deutsch-Niederländische Rechtsanwaltsvereinigung |
Additional languages
| English |
| French |
| Dutch |
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