Posser Spieth Wolfers & Partners

Partners: Dr. Wolf Friedrich Spieth, Dr. Herbert Posser, Dr. Benedikt Wolfers, Dr. Burkard Wollenschläger, Niclas Hellermann, LL.M., Katja Schramm, LL.M., Sebastian Lutz-Bachmann, L.L.M.

Number of partners: 7

Number of lawyers: 28

Languages:English, German

Firm Overview:

"Where others stop, pswp is just getting started."

POSSER SPIETH WOLFERS & PARTNERS (pswp) is at the forefront in the fields of environmental and climate law and regulation. pswp was founded by a team of highly experienced lawyers with the aim of providing high-quality, national and international advice and problem-solving in the entire range of commercially relevant regulation and environmental law. The team emerged from the leading environmental and regulatory practice of one of the major international law firms. The firm has more than 20 years exceptional experience and knowledge of regulatory and environmental-law projects that have broken new ground in the legal and economic development of Germany and Europe. pswp has extensive experience of highly complex cases with economic and political significance.

The firm is entrusted with groundbreaking project, from negotiating the coal phase-out and its implementation, shaping the transformation of the German industries (chemicals, steel, refineries, etc.) to defending against climate lawsuits alongside the industry, to the future issues of the automotive industry and autonomous driving.

pswp has been at the forefront of pivotal energy law projects and has helped to shape Germany’s energy transition from nuclear exit through to coal exit to offshore wind energy. The firm knows all the issues, its teams bring together outstanding experience and competence in the field of energy, climate regulation, ESG and climate litigation.

The regulatory challenges in the automotive sector are international and carry high liability risks. pswp knows the technical foundations as well as all the hurdles and phases where regulatory advice is needed.

The firm has also got vast expertise in obtaining licenses to operate for major industrial projects and gives advice on the entire range of environmental law relating to industrial production, including transactions and dealing with NGOs and the public.

The firm helps clients with the making, securing and defending of their infrastructure project – from regional planning, line management and urban land use planning to complex approval procedures and planning law. pswp also provides innovative ideas for efficient regulations for the safeguarding of major infrastructure projects, for the inclusion of stakeholders and the public and for the defence of projects before courts. And with decades of expertise in mining law, mineral extraction and water management, pswp has shaped the legal landscape for companies and the state.

For decades, the team has given advice on transactions whose success hinges on the successful handling of regulatory and environmental law matters; pswp knows the issues and critical situations.

pswp advises on transactions and structural questions for public banks and insurance companies as well as on the regulation of financial markets, European banking supervision and bank liquidation.

Both the state and the European Union change the landscape for companies by regulations and treaties. The firm is more than familiar with these instruments and the opportunities and risks they bring.

pspw is well aware of political parameters for the implementation of projects that are often controversial. The partners have firm contacts that go back decades and a major reputation in the political sphere. They are able to lobby on their clients behalf, and they are used to distilling complex legal issues to the key points and coordinating with clients or their advisors legally and efficiently.