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Stefan Söchtig
Salary Partner, Lawyer
Business Sectors: Construction, Infrastructure
HFK Rechtsanwälte
Rathausmarkt 5
20095 Hamburg
T +49 40 2880 9532
F +49 40 2880 9540
E soechtig@hfk.de
Profile
- Long-standing management role in companies in the following business sectors: public infrastructure, real estate, IT, energy, mobility, and supervising districts in terms of supplying accommodation, trade, and industry
- Long-term experience as a lawyer and in-house lawyer, especially for clients involved in the business sectors mentioned above
- Providing extrajudicial advice with an entrepreneurial approach, geared towards avoiding disputes
- Supporting opportunities for the further development of business models, especially with companies’ newest innovations, including company formation, restructuring, and initiating important contracts, recruitment, partnerships, and co-operations
- Advising small and medium-sized enterprises as mentioned before and in terms of succession planning
- Well-experienced in project management and co-operating with the implementation
Key Expertise
District and area infrastructure projects with energy production and transport mobility
- In areas and districts for residential construction, trade, and industry
- Support from the planning phase, through to construction and operation
- Developing of decentralised self-generating electricity and heat for self-sufficiency
- Supporting innovative (electric) mobility projects in the district with local public transport, and car/bike sharing
- Clarifying regulatory issues, drafting contracts, awarding operations
- Integrated energy
- Drafting contracts for operation to achieve optimum profitability
- Structuring and managing projects
- Raising the funds for subsidies by co-creating the applications and supporting the implementation
Public Procurement Law
- Tendering for public companies and private companies (also those companies without legal commitment to European public procurement law) for engineering services such as HOAI (Official Scale of Fees for Architects and Engineers) contracts; operational services such as commercial and technical management for energy networks, mobility solution providers in residential, and commercial districts
Long-term consulting for medium-sized companies
- Working as an "external legal department" and sparring partner for management
- Developing new business areas, supporting the rollout and expansion of value chains
- Providing expert opinions and lecturing for the federal government, as well as federal state governments, local authorities, scientific institutes, and private companies, especially in the areas of energy, water, and transport
Career
- Lawyer at HFK Rechtsanwälte Heiermann Franke Knipp und Partner mbB, since 2016
- Managing director of Wilken GmbH, from 2011 to 2016
- Managing director of the project enterprise for T-City Friedrichshafen, from 2009 to 2016
- Managing director of Technische Werke Friedrichshafen GmbH/ Stadtwerke am See, from 2007 to 2012
- In-house lawyer and managing director of various municipal utilities, and their subsidiaries at Würzburger Versorgungs- und Verkehrs GmbH, from 1993 to 2007
- Group manager of the legal department at DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, from 1990 to 1993
Memberships
- Rechtsanwaltskammer Bamberg Bayern (Bar Association Bamberg Bavaria)
- Member of the Open District Hub for the development of mobility solutions for central logistics facilities
- Member of EECH (Renewable Energy Cluster Hamburg)
Lecturing Activities
- Numerous lectures on all the topics/publications mentioned above
- Lecturer for administration and energy transition at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration, Police and Justice of the State of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
- Söchtig, Klima- und Grundwasserschutz durch oberflächennahen Wärmespeicherung, Hamburg, 2018/ 2020 – The report deals in particular with questions of water law, mining law, international obligations of the Federal Republic of Germany on climate protection, building law, specialist planning law, regional planning law, and the priority of protection goals when weighing up administrative decisions. It is thus also support for the administration and companies.
- Söchtig u.a., Dreifache Vernetzung der E-Mobilität: ÖPNV – IKT – Energie – The report has been issued in 2016/2019 as part of the BodenseEmobil showcase project, funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, designing business models for public transport, energy companies, and a draft law for the Bundesrat, available for example atTU Braunschweig https://katalog.ub.tu-braunschweig.de/vufind/Search2Record/896642720
- Söchtig u.a. Hrsg. Der Weg zur erfolgreichen Energiewende, Stand und Herausforderungen eines Jahrhundertprojekts, Münchener Kreis, 2019
- Söchtig, Windenergieanlagen, Maslaton (Hrsg.), 2015, Bespr. BayVBl16/395 ff
- Söchtig, Mit IT-Lösungen in die Zukunft, in: Intelligente Verkehrssysteme und Telematikanwendungen in Kommunen, 2015, Sandrock Hrsg.
- Söchtig, „Dynamik von unten“ Ein Beitrag zur Energiewende in: Smart-City konkret, 2012 Hatzelhofer u.a. Hrsg
- Söchtig, Zusammenwachsen von Energie- Telekommunikations- und IT-Welt in: Elektrizitätsmesstechnik, 2012, Kathmann/Zayer Hrsg.)