Dirk Walter Hamann

• Representation of Swedish state-owned utility group Vattenfall, Stockholm, on its market entry into Germany, acquiring the Hamburg based utility HEW, the majority in the Berlin-based Bewag, indirectly via HEW the East-Germany-based VEAG/Laubag and, eventually, transforming the German group parts in a series of restructuring steps into what is now known as Vattenfall Europe headquartered in Berlin.
• Representation of emerging company BGA Dictum GmbH in the creation of new distribution agreements.

• Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany in the defense sector, which involved drafting, negotiating and concluding the national security agreement in large-scale transactions with various renowned companies. Provided advice to Germany in the large aircraft manufacturing sector (in particular in relation to a European large aircraft manufacturer and in the WTO-trade law context supporting Germany in relation to the EU commission and vis-à-vis the USA positioning).
• Advising on important, often billion-Euro volume transactions and projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors on behalf of renowned strategic industrial clients and international financial investors.
• Providing corporate counseling to individual enterprises, the Mittelstand (medium-sized companies often family-owned and often global market leaders in their field of expertise), emerging companies and public bodies or municipalities.
• Representation of Biesterfeld AG on a number of acquisitions, including in a company in Poland, and counseling advice in relation to each of these transactions.
• Representation of KG Deutsche Gasrusswerke GmbH & Co. in relation to the modernization of an existing joint venture agreement.
• Advising a US investment bank on the German banking law regulatory aspects regarding its market entry in Germany/continental Europe.

• Advising associations which service public welfare interests on a pro bono basis, including the Desertec Foundation (on the joint venture formed with a number of renowned large groups of companies which became known for its vision to provide renewable, solar powered energy generation from the deserts in North Africa), and the German Association Club of Rome.
• Advising United Sustainability GmbH in relation to the creation of impact investment funds for renewable energy, clean water, ecosystem restoration and other sustainable infrastructure projects.
• Working with United Sustainability GmbH in relation to modifying accounting standards so that companies will benefit from operating more sustainably.

• Representation of clients in corporate litigation, including international and domestic arbitration and court proceedings in the telecommunications, manufacturing and health care industries.
• Advising on an international (ICSID) dispute against Republic of Kosovo.
• Advising non-European investors on the regulatory aspects of the German Foreign Trade Act.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• German Association Club of Rome, Management Board Member
• University of Digital Science in Berlin, Advisory Board Member
• ÖKO-TEST AG, Frankfurt, Chairman of Supervisory Board (held position until August 2020)