The german newspaper Handelsblatt and the renowned US publisher Best Lawyers have published the Best Lawyers in Germany 2025/26 ranking.
Germany's best lawyers
A total of 92 GÖRG lawyers were particularly recommended as ‘Germany's Best Lawyers’ in various areas of law.
Lawyer of the Year
This year, four of our lawyers were specially honoured and named ‘Lawyer of the Year’:
- Dr Holger Leichtle (Restructuring and Insolvency Law, Baden-Württemberg
- Jan Lindner-Figura (Real Estate Law, Berlin)
- Prof Dr Torsten Martini (Restructuring and Insolvency Law, Berlin)
- Dr Jan Peter Scharf (Public Private Partnership, Hamburg)
Ones To Watch
In addition, 22 GÖRG professionals were honoured as ‘Ones To Watch’ in individual areas of law:
- Dr Marie Ackermann, LL.M. (Energy Law, Environmental Law, Hamburg)
- Markus Beyer, LL.M. (Corporate Law, M&A, Frankfurt am Main)
- Dr Jakob Bünemann, M.Sc. (Restructuring and Insolvency Law, Hamburg)
- Ann-Kathrin Elsenbast (Public Law, Frankfurt am Main)
- Dr Richard Franz Gerlach (Banking and Finance Law, Cologne)
- Kristina Birgitta Groß (Public Law, Hamburg)
- Marcel Heinol (Corporate Law, Restructuring and Insolvency Law, Berlin)
- Dr Stephan Leipert, LL.M. (Real Estate Law, Frankfurt am Main)
- Niklas Mangels, LL.M. (Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice, Corporate Law, M&A, Frankfurt am Main)
- Dr Jan Peter Müller (Public Law, Frankfurt am Main)
- Dr Jan-Henric M. Punte, LL.M. (Corporate Law, M&A, Hamburg)
- Alexander Pustal (Public Law, Frankfurt am Main)
- Meganush Schiller (Data Protection, Labor and Employment Law, Cologne)
- Florian Seidl (Labor and Employment Law, Frankfurt am Main)
- Ceren Smajgert, LL.B. (Labor and Employment Law, Hamburg)
- Frithjof Terberger (Real Estate Law, Frankfurt am Main)
- Kristin Vogt-Schories, LL.M. (M&A, Frankfurt am Main)
- Katja Maria Weiß (Competition / Antitrust Law, Berlin)
- Dr Henning Wendt (Environmental Law, Public Law, Hamburg)
- Max Oscar Zeisler (Corporate Law, Munich)
- Dr Andrea Zimmermann (M&A, Cologne)
- Dr Valentin Zipfel (Data Protection and IT, Frankfurt am Main)
Every year, Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers identify the most renowned legal advisors in Germany as part of a survey and on the basis of a peer-to-peer process among professional colleagues and clients. The US publisher is regarded as the market leader in the US when it comes to evaluating lawyers. The rankings have a long tradition in the USA and Best Lawyers has been publishing the lists for over three decades, starting in 1983.
Link to Handelsblatt Ranking: Das sind Deutschlands beste Anwälte des Jahres 2025
