Dr Roland M Stein

Practice Areas

International trade law and national security expert

Fachanwalt für Vergaberecht (specialist lawyer for public procurement law)

ESG

Head of BLOMSTEIN's Brazil Desk

Many years of experience in advising national and international clients on all matters relating to international trade law:

Foreign investment control proceedings,

Export control and sanctions procedures and investigations (in particular with regard to the export of software, technology and know-how as well as sensitive products),

Customs law, excise taxes (primarily energy, electricity, alcohol tax), and

WTO, EU law (particularly anti-dumping, safeguard measures)

Advice to bidders and contracting authorities on all aspects of public procurement law, including litigation, advisory matters, and public procurement compliance (exclusions, debarments, self-cleaning)

World Bank, EBRD, EIB, ADB debarment matters

World Bank admitted monitor

Sector experience: IT and technology, energy, general industry, infrastructure, defence and security

Career

BLOMSTEIN founding partner (2016)

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Berlin, London (2006-2016)

Professional Memberships

Admitted to the Bar in Germany (Rechtsanwalt)

One of the Directors of the CELIS Institute

Co-leader of the defence and security division of forum vergabe (Gesprächskreis Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsvergaben)

Co-chair of the IBA subcommittee on debarments and exclusions

Publications

Publishes in international and national law journals on international trade and public procurement law

Co-editor of “Recht der Investitionskontrolle” (commentary on investment control law)

Co-author of the Commentary on the German Foreign Trade and Payments Act (AWG) in Dorsch

Co-author of the contribution to the German investment protection law, Lexology Panoramic (formerly GTDT): Foreign Investment Review, since 2019

Co-author of the chapter on the European Union sanctions regime, Lexology Panoramic (formerly GTDT): Sanctions, since 2021

Co-editor of “Beck’scher Online-Kommentar Vergaberecht”, Co-editor of “Contracting und Recht”

Frequent speaker at conferences and seminars in the EU and US

Personal

Half German, half Brazilian, grew up in São Paulo

Universities of Heidelberg and Leeds

LL.M. Eur., PhD degree (Dr. iur.), University of Frankfurt