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Moritz Menker

My areas of expertise

IT Law

Information technology law (“IT law”) concerns the large area of software, hardware and data processing, which is developing and changing faster than almost any other area. It is therefore easy to lose track of things. We offer you sound advice and support you in all legal matters relating to your IT, including contract review and drafting, licenses, hosting and, last but not least, cybersecurity, to ensure that your IT business practices are legally sound and protected against harmful interference.

Data protection

We offer comprehensive legal advice in the area of data protection to ensure that your practices comply with applicable data protection laws. Our services include drafting customized data protection policies, monitoring and auditing data processing activities and ensuring full compliance with all relevant data protection regulations.

Industrial Property Rights

Intellectual property law is used whenever you need to protect your intellectual property, such as patents, trademarks and copyrights, and protect it from damage caused by unfair competition. We support you with tailor-made legal structuring (e.g. trademark searches and registrations, structuring and obtaining licenses and rights of use) as well as with the enforcement of or defence against claims for compensation in the event of infringement.

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“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.” – Bill Gates

It became clear years ago that technology and companies are inextricably linked. My aim is therefore to provide legal advice with a view to technological progress. As part of this, I advise my clients in all areas of IT law and contract drafting. In doing so, I combine my specialist legal knowledge with my understanding of IT to offer my clients modern legal advice in the fast-paced world of IT law. It is important to me to work on an equal footing in order to ensure that both sides have a clear understanding of the issues and that no questions are left unanswered.

Moritz Menker in person

I grew up in northern Germany and now enjoy the beautiful surroundings of the Black Forest. In my free time, I enjoy programming and cooking.

Career

I completed my studies at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, specializing in commercial criminal law. I then completed my legal clerkship at the Regional Court of Karlsruhe, where I incorporated my enthusiasm for IT into my work by choosing to specialize in IT law.

I got to know the law firm Bartsch Rechtsanwälte during my legal clerkship and also gained further work experience as a research assistant. Due to the excellent cooperation within the law firm, I wanted to remain part of the team after my legal clerkship. I have been working at Bartsch Rechtsanwälte as a lawyer specializing in IT law since August 2025.

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Lisa-Maria Salzer

My areas of expertise

Labor and Employment Law

We advise companies and executives on all aspects of employment law. We support you in drafting contracts, developing personnel and remuneration models and help you to develop tailor-made concepts for your company. Our clients appreciate the fact that we develop pragmatic and tailor-made solutions as a daily point of contact for management and the HR department.

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Lisa-Maria Salzer in person

Employment law is more than just interpreting the law. It is a sensitive area that combines economic, personal and often emotional aspects. This makes it all the more important to advise and act with legal expertise, strategic foresight and a clear understanding of your situation.

As a lawyer, I support you in legally complex situations with the aim of developing viable and practicable solutions. The focus of my work is on your interests – and the requirement to enforce these effectively and with legal certainty.

I work with you to analyze the specific situation and provide you with transparent information about your legal options. In doing so, I not only take into account the current legal situation and case law, but also the specific implications of each option – legally, economically and personally.

Whether termination, contract drafting, restructuring or cooperation with the works council: I support you in making well-founded decisions and in being well-positioned both legally and strategically.

Career

I completed my law studies as part of the combined degree program “Corporate Lawyer (LL.B./Staatsexamen)” at the University of Mannheim with a focus on commercial law.

I completed my legal clerkship at Karlsruhe Regional Court, during which I was able to gain a wide range of insights into different areas of legal practice.

In particular, I deepened my knowledge of employment law – both from a legal perspective and on the corporate side, including during my time at a leading international company in the field of drive technology and automation.

From July 2025, I will be working at Bartsch Rechtsanwälte with a focus on employment law.

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Dr. Marc Pfirmann

My areas of expertise

Mergers & Acquisitions

Company law

Business succession

Shareholder disputes (corporate litigation)

Corporate Finance

More about me

I regularly advise national and international companies as well as financial investors on M&A transactions. In addition, I have particular experience in the area of corporate succession, in disputes between shareholders and am involved in promoting charitable causes as a member of the supervisory board of the Caritasverband e.V. Pforzheim.

Career

Since 2025: Lawyer and partner at Bartsch Rechtsanwälte and head of the Pforzheim office
2009 to 2024: Lawyer and partner at two medium-sized commercial law firms
2007 to 2009: Lawyer at an international commercial law firm
2006: Foreign associate at Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Los Angeles (USA)
Doctorate at the University of Mannheim
Legal studies at the University of Heidelberg; legal clerkship in Landau and Koblenz

Memberships

Member of the German-American Lawyers’ Association (DAJV) and its M&A working group
Member of the supervisory board of the Caritasverband e.V. Pforzheim

Publications

The contractual and non-contractual liability of the carrier for consequential damages (2008)

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Dr. Simon Bahlinger

My areas of expertise

Corporate law / M&A

Corporate law encompasses the legal relationships between companies organised as partnerships (GbR, oHG, KG, PartG) or corporations (GmbH, UG, AG, SE, Verein), their shareholders and their governing bodies. Corporate law regulates and sorts the individual interests of these parties, which are usually similar but still individual. If – as is often the case – the general legal regulations do not adequately reflect the interests of the parties involved, they can use individual agreements and regulations to create a set of rules among themselves that deviates from the general legal regulations and is tailored to their needs. Corporate law offers great freedom of design for this, which needs to be utilised. If a dispute nevertheless arises between the company, shareholders or governing bodies, a forward-looking structure proves its worth in the corporate dispute that then has to be resolved.

Inheritance law

Well-thought-out estate planning ensures that your wishes are respected and disputes avoided. When organising your succession or settling an estate, we take into account not only legal issues and economic interests, but also the interpersonal component.

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As a lawyer, I advise medium-sized companies and their shareholders in the areas of corporate and inheritance law. This includes the formation of companies, the drafting of articles of association, the support of capital measures and transformation processes, as well as the resolution of shareholder disputes. A particular focus is on corporate succession.

I support private individuals in the drafting of wills, the structuring of asset succession and in inheritance disputes.

Career

After studying law at the University of Heidelberg, I initially worked as a research assistant at a major international law firm in Frankfurt am Main. I then worked on my doctoral thesis, which was supported by a scholarship from the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw). In 2021, I was awarded a doctorate in law from the Institute for Foreign and International Private and Commercial Law at the University of Heidelberg. Before joining Bartsch Rechtsanwälte, I worked as a lawyer for another commercial law firm in Baden-Württemberg.

My main areas of practice are corporate and inheritance law. I also regularly publish in these fields in specialist books and leading journals, including the Munich Handbook of Corporate Law (Vol. 9: Family Businesses).

Lectures

Examination tutorial in international corporate law, University of Heidelberg (winter term 2021/2022; winter term 2022/2023)

Publications

Note on ECJ, judgment of 25 April 2024 – C-276/22 (Edil Work 2), NZG 2024, 956 et seq.
Privileging of partnerships under §§ 5, 6 GrEStG in terms of land transfer tax until the end of 2024, DB 2023, 2852 et seq.
The outsourcing of the pension promise of the shareholder-managing director, DB 2023, 2587 et seq.

Consequences of the new partnership law for advisory practice – Overview and recommendations for tax advisors before the entry into force of the MoPeG on 1 January 2024, NWB Steuer- und Wirtschaftsrecht 13/2023, p. 921 et seq.
Limits of the freedom of choice of law in corporate law, Carl Heymanns (AHW series), Cologne 2022 (also doctoral thesis, University of Heidelberg
The cross-border family business, in: Bochmann/Cziupka/Prütting (eds.), Munich Handbook of Corporate Law, Volume 9, Law of Family Businesses, Munich 2021 (together with Prof. Dr. Leonhard Hübner)
Quotas for Women in Corporate Law, Neue Zeitschrift für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht 2020, p. 1212 et seq. (together with Dr Maximilian Leydecker)
Report on the Discussion, in: Bergmann et al (eds), From Groups to Unitary Enterprises, Current Development Perspectives of German and European Group Law (ZGR Special Issue 22), 2020, p. 137 et seq.
Search and seizure in the sphere of the company lawyer in the course of internal investigations, BB 2018, p. 2953 et seq. (together with Dr Alexander Kiefner and Karl-Jörg Xylander)
Legal problems of personal liability of corporate bodies leading to an existential threat in the law of stock corporations, StudZR Wiss-On 2017, p. 1 et seq.

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Julia Straburzynski

My specialties

IT Law

Information technology law (“IT law”) concerns the large area of software, hardware and data processing, which is developing and changing faster than almost any other area. It is therefore easy to lose track of things. We offer you sound advice and support you in all legal matters relating to your IT, including contract review and drafting, licenses, hosting and, last but not least, cybersecurity, to ensure that your IT business practices are legally sound and protected against harmful interference.

Data protection

We offer comprehensive legal advice in the area of data protection to ensure that your practices comply with applicable data protection laws. Our services include drafting customized data protection policies, monitoring and auditing data processing activities and ensuring full compliance with all relevant data protection regulations.

More about me

In a world where technological developments are advancing faster than legal regulations, it is crucial to have a reliable partner at your side.
My enthusiasm for IT enables me to understand and correctly classify my clients’ plans.
Thanks to my knowledge and experience in IT and data protection law from research and practice, I support our clients in overcoming legal hurdles and implementing their projects in a legally compliant manner.

Julia Straburzynski in person

I grew up in Bad Wildbad in the Black Forest.
In my free time, I enjoy weight training and photography.

Career

I studied law at the University of Freiburg, specializing in media and information law.
In Karlsruhe, I was a research assistant at the Institute for Information and Business Law (IIWR) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in data protection and IT security law with a special focus on smart mobility.

I completed my legal clerkship in Baden-Baden and Karlsruhe with stages at a medium-sized law firm in IT and data protection law.

I have been working as a lawyer at Bartsch Rechtsanwälte since June 2024 with a focus on IT law.

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Julia Lüders

My specialties

Construction law

The construction and real estate sector is an anchor of stability and a driver of growth for the German economy. At the same time, it fulfills an essential function for society as a whole: it creates a liveable living and working environment. Construction and real estate law is characterized by a particularly high number of legal standards, whereby the boundary between legal and technical regulations is fluid. In addition, digital and sustainable solutions are also playing an increasingly important role here and are politically prescribed. In this complex environment, we provide you with comprehensive, targeted and specialized advice so that you are prepared for the legal challenges that arise in construction projects.

Building Smart

Building is technically complex. At the same time, it should be sustainable. The set deadline and budget targets should be met. At the moment, construction projects too often end in disputes over supplements or defects and none of the targets set are achieved. At the same time, the world is becoming more digital. A rethink is therefore necessary. Smart building is the order of the day and we provide the necessary legal tools.

Real Estate

We deal with all important issues relating to real estate and advise our clients in particular on real estate transactions, project developments and asset management. Our team is proficient in the development and management of large-scale real estate projects – from planning to execution and sales through to realization.

Planning & Project Management

Technically demanding projects require professional planning and implementation. Creating the optimum legal framework for such projects and being able to successfully accompany such projects requires a high degree of understanding of the given technical and economic contexts. We claim to understand something of what moves you in relation to your projects. That is why we are at your side in the best possible way.

Public procurement law

As specialist lawyers for public procurement law, we provide our clients with comprehensive support in all legal matters relating to tenders above and below the EU thresholds. We support the public sector and other clients in the design and implementation of procurement procedures. As lawyers for public procurement law, we also support companies that apply for public contracts as bidders and, if necessary, ensure effective legal protection – not only in review proceedings.

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I carry out my professional work as a lawyer with great commitment, conscientiousness and attention to even the smallest detail.
The focus of my work is on construction and real estate law.
This is a varied and complex field that requires quick and practicable solutions and makes a close and open exchange with you as a client indispensable.

Julia Lüders in person

For me, sport is the balance to my everyday working life.
It’s another passion that I can immerse myself in, that challenges me and allows me to grow.
I also take part in our running events and ski trips with great enthusiasm, where we can demonstrate our good team spirit in a completely different way.

Career

I completed my law degree at the University of Mannheim.
My legal clerkship took me to Karlsruhe Regional Court, where I was able to gain valuable practical experience.
During this time, I worked at dm-drogerie markt GmbH + Co KG in the construction sector, where I was responsible for sustainability reporting.
I have been working for the law firm Bartsch Rechtsanwälte since October 2021.
I started there as a research assistant in the field of construction and real estate law.
I have been working in this field as a lawyer since 2024.

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Constanze Stallecker

My specialties

Building contract law

Construction contract law is an essential part of the construction industry. My aim is to ensure that your construction projects are legally compliant. From the careful drafting of contracts to effective conflict resolution, I stand up for your interests in order to minimize risks and ensure the success of your construction project.

Property development law

Inproperty development law, I offer individual and practice-oriented solutions. I concentrate on the legal support of property development projects, from the drafting of contracts to successful acceptance.

Real Estate

Real Estate deals with the purchase, sale, development and management of land and buildings. I provide you with legal advice on real estate purchases and sales and support you in project development to ensure the security and success of your real estate investments.

Letting

I advise landlords and tenants on the drafting of rental agreements/additions and represent their individual interests in contract negotiations.

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It is important to me to provide my clients with comprehensive advice. In addition to technical expertise, a precise grasp of the facts and the ability to act with foresight are essential components of my work. I enjoy working for my clients and achieving the best possible solution for them.

Constanze Stallecker in person

My passion is running: It allows me to organize my thoughts, enjoy nature, train my stamina and pursue new goals. I am particularly pleased that there are also some running enthusiasts among our colleagues at Bartsch Rechtsanwälte and that the firm even regularly organizes its own running event – the Bartsch Run.

Career

After studying economics at the University of Hohenheim, I studied law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. I completed my legal clerkship at Karlsruhe Regional Court. During my administrative internship at the Pforzheim legal department, I gained valuable insights into the activities of the building law department, among other things. I have been working for Bartsch Rechtsanwälte since 2024, focusing on construction and architectural law as well as tenancy and residential property law.

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Wolfgang Döring

My specialties

IT Law

Information technology law (“IT law”) concerns the large area of software, hardware and data processing, which is developing and changing faster than almost any other area. It is therefore easy to lose track here. We offer you sound advice and support you in all legal matters relating to your IT, including contract review and drafting, licenses, hosting and, last but not least, cybersecurity, to ensure that your IT business practices are legally sound and protected from malicious interference.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual property law is used whenever you need to protect your intellectual property, such as patents, trademarks and copyrights, and protect it from damage caused by unfair competition. We support you with tailor-made legal structuring (e.g. trademark searches and registrations, structuring and obtaining licenses and rights of use) as well as with the enforcement of or defence against claims for compensation in the event of infringement.

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Globalization does not stop at legal advice. Especially when advising companies, it is often essential to look beyond national law.

Internationality is no longer just a matter for large companies. In the IP sector in particular, international activities often begin in small entrepreneurial structures.

With my advice, I also provide clients with the legal certainty in an international context that others can often only offer in a national context.

Wolfgang Döring in person

I have lived in beautiful Upper Bavaria for more than 20 years, with a few short interruptions. I spend my time with my family in the mountains, at the stove, on the way to or – even better – in Italy.

Career

Wolfgang Döring studied law in Freiburg and Aberdeen/GB. He then completed his legal clerkship in Mannheim and Heidelberg.

Wolfgang Döring was admitted to the bar in 2001. From 2001-2003 he worked as a lawyer at Bartsch und Partner and from 2004-2009 at Linklaters in London and Munich in the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Practice Group. Wolfgang Döring subsequently held management positions at various leading global technology companies (Atos, SAP, Microsoft). For many years, his focus has been on setting up and managing the legal departments of fast-growing technology providers. For example, he spent four years as General Counsel of Celonis SE, a software company based in Munich and New York, which is one of the most valuable European scale-ups.

Wolfgang Döring is particularly involved in national and international projects in the areas of start-up and scale-up consulting, IT and business process outsourcing, global data protection projects, software licensing and distribution, mergers & acquisitions and has been working for Bartsch Rechtsanwälte as a lawyer (Of Counsel) since October 2013.

Memberships

German Society for Law and Informatics (DGRI)

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Joachim Dorschel

My specialties

IT Law

Information technology law (“IT law”) concerns the large area of software, hardware and data processing, which is developing and changing faster than almost any other area. It is therefore easy to lose track here. We offer you sound advice and support you in all legal matters relating to your IT, including contract review and drafting, licenses, hosting and, last but not least, cybersecurity, to ensure that your IT business practices are legally sound and protected from malicious interference.

Company law

Company law covers the legal relationships between companies managed as partnerships (GbR, oHG, KG, PartG) or corporations (GmbH, UG, AG, SE, Verein), their shareholders and their executive bodies. Company law regulates and organizes the mostly similar but individual interests of these parties. If – as is often the case – the general statutory regulations do not adequately reflect the interests of the parties involved, they can use individual agreements and regulations to create a set of rules that deviates from the general statutory regulations and is tailored to their needs. Company law offers a great deal of freedom for this, which needs to be utilized. If disputes nevertheless arise between the company, shareholders or executive bodies, a forward-looking approach will prove its worth in the event of a company dispute.

More about me

Law is constantly on the move. The task of a lawyer is to advise on the pulse of the times.

Especially in IT law, copyright law and intellectual property law, there is often a lot going on. For technology-oriented companies, legal changes can have a considerable strategic and financial impact.

In order to be able to offer optimal legal advice, I keep an eye on developments and point out necessary adjustments for the future in good time.

Career

I studied law at the Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen. I then worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Civil Law, Commercial and Business Law, Multimedia and Telecommunications Law of Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler at the University of Göttingen and as a publications officer at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
During my legal clerkship in Cologne, I worked in the IP/IT practice department of an international law firm in Düsseldorf and London.
I was admitted to the bar in 2008. From 2008 to 2011 I worked at the law firm Bartsch und Partner and am a founding partner of the law firm Bartsch Rechtsanwälte.
I have regularly published articles and judgment notes on legal issues in the field of IT, telecommunications and data protection law.

Teaching activity

Lecturer at the Stuttgart Media University (IT law), Stuttgart

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Dr. Gerhard Wagner

My specialties

Labor and Employment Law

We advise companies and executives on all aspects of employment law. We support you in drafting contracts, developing personnel and remuneration models and help you to develop tailor-made concepts for your company. Our clients appreciate the fact that we develop pragmatic and tailor-made solutions as a daily point of contact for management and the HR department.

Restructuring, outsourcing, reorganization and turnaround situations

A competent and solution-oriented partner is needed to manage the increasing complexity for entrepreneurs and companies, but also for employees. I see myself as such. With more than twenty-five years of practical experience in various positions of responsibility in industrial companies, as well as my work as a lawyer, I am familiar with the concerns and needs of entrepreneurs and companies, but also of employees. My approach has always been to find pragmatic, successful solutions in the interests of the company, based on in-depth knowledge of the relevant area of law.

Compliance

Companies, their executive bodies and employees have to know and observe a large number of sometimes complex rules. If violations occur, there is not only the threat of criminal and civil law consequences, but often also reputational damage and business losses. The scope of the rules, their complexity and the level of sanctions have been steadily increasing for years. At the same time, companies are losing money because they are not taking advantage of business opportunities due to excessive caution. With our many years of experience, we help you to identify and objectively assess risks without ignoring or over-dramatizing them.

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The context in which many companies and entrepreneurs, as well as employees, operate today is becoming increasingly complex due to advancing digitalization, internationalization and globalization.
This has a tangible and direct impact on all those involved, not least due to the plethora of legal regulations within which companies, employers and employees now have to navigate and find their way around.

Regulations that are applied in the course of restructuring, outsourcing, reorganization and turnaround situations, but also works constitution law and collective bargaining law are just a few examples.

A competent and solution-oriented partner is needed to manage the increasing complexity for entrepreneurs and companies, but also for employees. I see myself as such. With more than twenty-five years of practical experience in various positions of responsibility in industrial companies, as well as my work as a lawyer, I am familiar with the concerns and needs of entrepreneurs and companies, but also of employees. My approach has always been to find pragmatic, successful solutions in the interests of the company, based on in-depth knowledge of the relevant area of law.

Career

I studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg. I completed my doctorate on the subject of “German and Austrian Works Constitution Law – A Comparison from a Legal History Perspective” at the Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein, Triesen, under Professor Dr. Bernd Waas (Goethe University Frankfurt/Main).

I completed my legal clerkship in Darmstadt. I was admitted to the bar in 1995 and have been a specialist lawyer for employment law since 1999. In addition to my work as a lawyer, I held various management positions, first at a company of the Deutsche Bahn Group, then at a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG, then at Brückner Maschinenbau GmbH and finally for almost twelve years at HOERBIGER Holding AG, for the HOERBIGER Group. In the last five years there, I was Chief Human Resources Officer and a member of the Group Executive Board.