Finance Monthly Global Awards 2018 Edition

About Paul Lange Paul Lange, an attorney at law, is senior partner at Siebeke, Lange, Wilbert, a leading law firm in the field of national and international trademark and sign protection, based in Dusseldorf. Prof Lange considers a firm’s trademarks and other identifying signs to be a primary, integral element of its communication with clients worldwide. His marketing-led attitude is vital when advising and acting for large and medium-sized businesses on all trademark law issues. Prof Lange conducts litigation in Germany, throughout Europe and in other industrialized countries worldwide, thereby making use of an international network of carefully selected specialists. His clients include international corporations, large and medium-sized companies – both in Germany and abroad – as well as wealthy private individuals. He advises and acts for businesses in different commercial sectors, including major energy suppliers, telecommunications and retail corporations, companies in the clothing, foodstuffs and pharmaceutical industries, players in the automotive industry and teams of designers. In a current high-profile trial, he is representing the major German retail chain real,- SB Warenhaus GmbH against the German Football Association in a trademark dispute involving the brands of the national football team. He also is the first attorney who could win for his client in changing a section of the German Trademark Act and the corresponding jurisdiction of the Federal Supreme Court, ECJ C-148/17. Prof Lange is author of the major standard practical manual on German and European trademark and sign protection law, Marken- und Kennzeichenrecht, which is regularly cited by legal practitioners and judges. He is also editor and co-author – along with 22 eminent authors from 14 industrialized nations – of the international practical handbook on trademark and sign protection International Trademark and Sign Protection, which also covers the marketing and evaluation of trademarks and signs. Prof Lange was selected as Lawyer of the Year (intellectual property – Dusseldorf) by Best Lawyers International in 2012. He is a long-time member of the European Communities Trademark Association Law Committee and of the International Trademark Association, among others. He has been an attorney at law since 1984 and an honorary professor of intellectual property since 2000. Contact Cecilienallee 42 D-40474 Düsseldorf T: + 49 - 211 - 43 43 240 F: + 49 - 211 - 45 10 15 E: info@siebeke.com W: www.siebeke.com firm profile We are one of the leading Intellectual Property Law Firms in Germany, founded in 1951. We provide services on the basis of a marketing-oriented advisory approach in all fields of Intellectual Property Law, as Trademark, Copyright, Design, Patent, Competition and all related fields, including litigation. Based on decades of experience, we have consolidated international business relationships in more than 100 countries, that allows us to assist our clients world- wide enforcing their Intellectual Property Rights. Paul Lange, Senior Partner, is the author of a major standard practical manual on German and European law on trademark and sign protection. PAUL LANGE Senior Partner at Siebeke, Lange, Wilbert Prof Lange considers a firm’s trademarks and other identifying signs to be a primary, integral element of its communication with clients worldwide. “ “ Finance Monthly Global Awards 2018 www.finance-monthly.com 17 GERMANY TRADEMARKS LAWYER OF THE YEAR