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Dr C Wolfgang Vogel
Lawyer, Secretary of State (ret.)
Business Sectors: Construction, Infrastructure
HFK Rechtsanwälte
Knesebeckstraße 1
10623 Berlin
T +49 30 3186 7525
F +49 30 3186 7529
E vogel@hfk.de
Profile
- Three decades experience in the Federal Ministry for Building, the Federal Chancellery, the Federal Ministry of Economics, and the Ministry of Economics of the State of Brandenburg
- Long-standing experience in the construction and real estate industries
- International experience: one year of professional experience in France and Belgium
- Completed the German Bar Association course to become a specialised lawyer for construction and architectural law
Key Expertise
- Providing legal advice to builders and project developers on construction and real estate projects
- Enforcing the claims on behalf of builders and project developers, as well as defending against unjustified claims from planners and construction companies
- Planning and implementing company settlements and large infrastructure projects
- Providing advice on economic development
- Carrying out major procurement procedures
- Converting industrial and military areas into residential and commercial areas
- Privatising and merging state-owned companies
Career
- Lawyer at HFK Rechtsanwälte Heiermann Franke Knipp und Partner mbB, since 2007
- Lawyer at Andrea Versteyl Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB, from 2004 to 2007
- Secretary of State for Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Economic Affairs Brandenburg, from 1999 to 2004
- Ministerialdirektor (Director) at the Federal Ministry for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development, Head of the Housing and Building Department, from 1995 to 1998
- Federal Chancellery, Department of Economic and Financial Policy, including housing and real estate policy, construction, spatial and urban planning, from 1987 to 1995
- Federal Ministry of Economics, legal department, energy department, including legal policy, energy law, national and international energy policy, from 1977 to 1987
- Aktienrecht und Aktienwirklichkeit – Organisation und Aufgabenteilung von Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat – Eine empirische Untersuchung deutscher Aktiengesellschaften (PhD thesis on German stock corporation law, especially on the organisation and responsibilities of the executive and supervisory boards)
- Various publications on energy politics and energy law, as well as housing and construction politics, from 1977 to 2005