Management

International tax planning, structuring of investment companies, collective funds structures, private placements through the International Business Centre Madeira (MIBC), European law, constitutional law with regards to tax and finance aspects

Law, Universities of Munich and Regensburg, Dr. jur. 1989

1987 - 1997
Member of the tax department of Hoechst AG, Frankfurt / Main (now Sanofi/Aventis)

1997 - 2002
Partner of the European law firm SJ Berwin, Frankfurt / Main

since 2002
Managing director of PAROPA - Rosenthal Law Firm, Frankfurt / Main

since 1999
President of GAPLA

Co-author of the Debatin/Wassermeyer Commentary on Double Taxation Agreements, Countries: Australia, Ireland, Uruguay

German (native speaker)
English (fluent)
Spanish (basic knowledge)
Portuguese (basic knowledge)

Formation of companies, especially for German, Swiss and Austrian companies, representation, agency and distribution agreements, terms and conditions of trade, employment law including employment agreements and representing employers and employees in disputes, intellectual property including trade mark registrations, passing off, statutory and other intellectual property infringements, leasing of commercial property, international succession law including drafting wills under German and Australian substantive and procedural laws

Michael joined the law firm Schweizer Kobras in 1994 and became a partner in 1998. He was the first "Recognised Foreign Lawyer" in New South Wales being admitted in both Germany and Australia.
Until 1992, Michael practised for a number of years in Munich in general civil and commercial law. In 1997 he completed a Master of Laws with distinctions in business law, international taxation and European Union Law.
In October 2006, Michael was also registered as a Migration Agent. He has over 20 years experience in a wide variety of legal work covering corporate and business law as well as inheritance law under German and Australian jurisdictions. He has also appeared in Australian courts as an expert in German inheritance and family law.

German (native speaker)
English (fluent)

International Corporate Tax Planning, Aircraft Finance, Securities Transactions, Mergers and Acquisitions, International Commercial Arbitration, International Commercial Transactions, Trade Financing and Banking, Investment Disputes, Energy Charter Treaty Arbitration

Law, Innsbruck University, Dr. jur. 1972; postgraduate work in London and Paris

Admitted to Innsbruck bar 1976, Vienna bar 1986 Senior Partner, Law Offices Dr. F. Schwank, Vienna (since 1986) Rechtsanwalt, Greiter & Schwank, Innsbruck (1976–1985) Trainee, Woodham Smith Greenwood & Holland, London (1975) Trainee, Legal Secretariat of ICC Court of Arbitration, Paris (1975)

Author of books and articles on international commercial arbitration, Austrian arbitration law, construction, oil and gas industry, international commodity trading, banking and finance, Eastern Europe, corporate governance, tax

German (native speaker)
English (fluent)
French (basic knowledge)
Italian (basic knowledge)
Spanish (basic knowledge)

Intellectual property including industrial property rights, patents, trademarks, designs, licensing, employee invention and assignment law, R & D Agreements, rights management and mediation

Law, University of Bonn and University of Cologne

Member of the trademark and licensing department of Merck KGaA, Germany for 7 years.
Currently Head of the Industrial Property of VOITH GMBH, Germany.
Admitted as a Rechtsanwalt in Germany in 1991.
Co-founder of PatEffect Schutzrechtsmanagement GbR, which advises on IP management and organisation, patent management and licensing.

German (native speaker)
English (fluent)
French (basic knowledge)

External relations of the European Union, in particular in respect of the Pacific region; contract law and the development of a European Contract Law; transnational governance and the private sector.

Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Newcastle, Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of New South Wales, Master of Laws at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, Germany, Master of Laws at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Anne is a lecturer in the ANU College of Law at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Anne was admitted to practice as a solicitor in 1990. She was a legal practitioner for two years before becoming an academic. She has extensive experience teaching the law of contract, commercial law, international business law and the law of the European Union at numerous institutions in Australia. Anne is an adjunct lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Sydney University and at the Australian Graduate School of Management at the University of New South Wales

English (native speaker)
German (fluent)
French (intermediate)