Finance Monthly Global Awards 2018 Edition

PATENTS LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR Individual Profile Andreas Noack is a German and European Patent and Trademark Attorney. He started his career as R&D engineer in the tobacco industry before he entered the intellectual property field, with a focus on patents. He qualified as European Patent Attorney in 2005, and as German Patent Attorney in 2011. After several inhouse positions he started his solo Patent and Trademark firm in 2016. Mr. Noack’s client base covers individuals, startups, and SMEs, as well as multinational corporations, active in various technical fields like medical devices, sanitary products, software, outdoor equipment, automotive, batteries, encryption, mobile communication, heat exchangers and laser machinery. He assists his clients in defining and employing strategies for patent and trademark filings in Europe and abroad, and handles prosecution and opposition work before the German and European offices. He also helps his clients with licensing, monetization, and dispute resolution. Mr. Noack is member of the German Chamber of Patent Attorneys (Patentanwaltskammer), epi, FICPI, and VPP. He’s also head of the Hamburg section of the German Inventor’s Association (D.E.V). Firm Profile The firm has been founded by Andreas Noack in 2016 and is located near Hamburg, Germany. The services include: • Patent, Trademark and Design drafting and prosecution • Oppositions • Licensing, Monetization, Dispute resolution • Strategy counselling • Non-Disclosure Agreements Contact Details Andreas Noack German and European Patent & Trademark Attorney Tel.: +49 176 81196548 Email: mail@noack-patent.com www.noack-patent.com Finance Monthly Global Awards 2017 www.finance-monthly.com 24 GERMANY PERSONAL INJURIES LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR Firm Profile Kanzlei Voigt Rechtsanwalts GmbH is a law firm specialized on all areas of traffic law and insurance law. With 28 subsidiaries and more than 80 attorneys throughout Germany, the firm has a decentralized area-wide structure with a central management. This allows professional advice on site combined with networked knowledge. But some cases require special attention and concentrated expertise due to their complexity. Severe personal injury cases are handled in the headquarters in Dortmund. The firm’s expertise is also much appreciated abroad – as representative or communicating lawyers as well as authors of experts’ reports. Bernd Matthias Höke Bernd M. Höke is an Attorney at Law with 25 years of working experience in the field of claims management. Six years ago he switched sides from the insurances’ perspective to representing accident victims – and became Director of Kanzlei Voigt. Bernd is also First Chairman of Pan European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers’ (PEOPIL) regional group Central Europe since 2013 and Member of the Board of IETL, Institute of European Traffic Law. Areas of Expertise • Traffic Law • Personal Injury • Catastrophic Injury • Medical Negligence • Insurance Law Name Kanzlei Voigt Rechtsanwalts GmbH Ruhrallee 9 44139 Dortmund Tel.: +49 231 6000 82-20 E-Mail: zentrale@kanzlei-voigt.de Web: www.kanzlei-voigt.de