Bethge.Reimann.Stari Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft mbB - Your path to legal security and economic success

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Since our firm was founded in 2004, we, with our current team of thirteen lawyers, have stood for practical experience and expertise in our core areas of business, energy, and administration. Two of our lawyers also practice as notaries.

Our maxim is to develop practical solutions for our demanding, predominantly medium-sized clients through high levels of expertise and specialization as well as relevant industry knowledge.

We offer our clients high-quality out-of-court advisory services as well as goal-oriented and strategic litigation representation.

WIBKE REIMANN
  • Wibke Reimann

    Life

    • Born in 1970 in Essen
    • Studied in Trier and Lyon
    • Legal traineeship in Neuruppin
    • From 1998 to 2003, lawyer in a business consulting firm in Berlin, specializing in energy, commercial contract, and labor law, since 2001 as a partner
    • Since January 2004, founding partner of the law firm BETHGE.REIMANN.STARI and head of our Energy and Procurement Law practice group

    Areas of law

    • Energy Law
    • Energy Antitrust Law
    • Litigation and Mediation
    • Employment Law

    Competencies

    • Energy contract drafting and review
    • Concession contract law
    • Enforcement and negotiation of network takeovers
    • Implementation of regulatory law
    • Representation before antitrust and regulatory authorities
    • Inter-municipal cooperation
    • Contracting and design advice on the implementation of heat concepts
    • Judicial and out-of-court dispute resolution

    Clients

    • Municipal energy supply companies (suppliers or network operators)
    • Municipalities
    • Industrial customers

    Memberships

    • Institute for Energy and Regulatory Law Berlin,
    • Institute for Energy and Competition Law in the Municipal Economy (EWeRK) at Humboldt University
    • Society for Energy Science and Energy Policy (GEE)
    • Forum for Procurement
    • Forum for Contracting

    Contact:

    Ms. Andrea Günther

    Tel.: 030 89 04 92 34

    Fax: 030 89 04 92 10

    Mail: guenther@brs-rechtsanwaelte.de

    Publications and lectures
DR. CHRISTIAN STARI
  • Dr. Christian Stari

    Life

    • Born in 1967 in Hildesheim
    • Studied in Hanover and Leicester
    • Legal traineeship in Hanover, Celle and London
    • 1998 Completion of a doctorate in comparative law in the field of emission control law
    • 1995 Admission to the bar
    • From 1995 to 1999, lawyer in a medium-sized law firm in Hanover, specializing in civil, commercial and corporate law
    • From 1999 to 2003, lawyer in a business consulting firm in Berlin, specializing in capital and partnership law
    • Since January 2004, founding partner of the law firm BETHGE.REIMANN.STARI
    • 2014 Specialist lawyer for commercial and corporate law

    Areas of law

    • Commercial and corporate law
    • Banking and capital market law
    • Commercial contract law

    Competencies

    • Ongoing corporate law advice for closed-end real estate funds
    • Residential and commercial tenancy law with particular expertise in social housing in Berlin
    • Ongoing advice for corporations and their executive bodies
    • Advice in the context of corporate restructuring and the involvement of strategic partners and/or financial investors (mergers and acquisitions)
    • Advice to municipalities and municipal companies in the corporate law structuring of their business activities, particularly in cooperation with third parties (including public-private partnerships, municipal citizen participation)
    • Representation in the procedural enforcement and defense of claims (including in the context of shareholder disputes, disputes regarding defective resolutions, disputes between management and the company)

    Clients

    • Closed-end real estate funds
    • Initiators, issuers, founding shareholders and officials
    • Small and medium-sized enterprises
    • Municipalities and municipal companies

    Contact:

    Mrs. Susanne Isensee

    Tel.: 030 89 04 92 11

    Fax: 030 89 04 92 10

    Mail: isensee@brs-rechtsanwaelte.de

STEFAN HAGEN
  • Stefan Hagen

    Life

    • born in Hanover
    • studied and completed legal traineeship in Hanover
    • from 1993 to 1994 contract manager at the Treuhandanstalt/Federal Agency for Special Tasks related to Unification
    • admitted to the bar in Berlin since 1994
    • founded the HAGEN law firm in Berlin in 1996
    • 2001 specialist lawyer for employment law
    • following the merger of the law firms on July 1, 2020, partner at the law firm BETHGE.REIMANN.STARI Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft mbB

    Areas of law

    • Arbeitsrecht
    • Immobilienrecht
    • Wirtschaftsmediation

    Competencies

    Individual employment law:

    • Conclusion and amendment of employment and vocational training contracts,
    • Termination of employment and vocational training relationships,
    • Protection against dismissal, dismissal protection proceedings,
    • Severance payments,
    • Warnings,
    • Relocations and transfers,
    • Court and out-of-court severance and settlement negotiations,
    • Design of employment contracts,
    • Working time arrangements,
    • Personnel restructuring,
    • Design and amendment of employment references

     

    Collective labor law:

    • Works Constitution Law
    • Staff Representation Law
    • Industrial Dispute and Co-determination Law

     

    Corporate employment law:

    • Drafting of employment contracts for managing directors and board members
    • Conclusion and termination of employment contracts for managing directors and board members
    • Amendment of employment contracts for managing directors and board members
    • Contract negotiations for the conclusion, amendment and termination of employment contracts for managing directors and board members
    • Liability of managing directors and board members

    Real estate law:

    • Residential and commercial tenancy law
    • Drafting and reviewing residential and commercial tenancy agreements
    • Advice on the implementation and termination of residential and commercial tenancy agreements
    • Condominium law (WEG)
    • Leasehold law
    • Purchase agreement review/drafting
    • Property law
    • Neighborhood law
    • Due diligence in the acquisition/sale of real estate
    • Development and implementation of settlement/restructuring concepts for stalled property developer contracts/purchase agreements for condominiums (WEG) in the event of impending/insolvency of the developer, including banking law aspects

     

    Clients

    • Medium and small businesses
    • Technology companies
    • Real estate companies
    • Private individuals
    • Employees
    • Foundations
    • Associations

    Memberships

    • German Bar Association (DAV)

    Contact:

    Ms. Vivien Schöneich

    Tel.: 030 89 04 92 36

    Fax: 030 89 04 92 10

    Mail: schoeneich@brs-rechtsanwaelte.de

GLENN DAMMANN
  • Glenn Dammann

    Life

    • Born in 1969 in Berlin
    • Studied law in Berlin, Potsdam, and Speyer
    • From 1998 to 2004, lawyer with Dr. Möller, Dr. Post, and Dr. Fenger, Münster and Cottbus
    • Since 2004, member and since 2011 partner at Bethge.Reimann.Stari

    Areas of law

    • Verwaltungsprozessrecht
    • Arbeitsrecht

    Competencies

    • Litigation
    • Public construction and planning law
    • Urban development contracts/development measures
    • Intermunicipal cooperation
    • Works constitution and co-determination law
    • Restructuring and reorganization

    Clients

    • Public corporations
    • Municipal energy supply companies
    • Investment companies

    Memberships

    • Working Group on Administrative Law in the BAV
    • Federal Association of Public Law

    Contact:

    Frau Uta Bendrich

    Tel.: 030 89 04 92 15

    Fax: 030 89 04 92 10

    Mail: bendrich@brs-rechtsanwaelte.de

ANDREAS NOACK
  • Andreas Noack

    Life

    • born in 1973 in Münster
    • studied in Münster
    • 1999 to 2001 legal traineeship in Berlin and Wellington, New Zealand
    • 2001 admitted to the bar
    • from 2001 to 2003 lawyer in a business consulting firm in Berlin with a focus on capital and partnership law
    • since January 2004 lawyer at the law firm BETHGE.REIMANN.STARI
    • since January 2007 partner at the law firm BETHGE.REIMANN.STARI

    Areas of law

    • Commercial and corporate law
    • Insolvency law / restructuring advice
    • Commercial contract law
    • Litigation

    Competencies

    • Ongoing corporate law advice for closed-end real estate funds
    • Ongoing advice for corporations and their executive bodies
    • Residential and commercial tenancy law with particular expertise in social housing in Berlin
    • Ongoing advice for partnerships and corporations and their executive bodies, particularly in insolvency law matters; development of restructuring concepts and insolvency avoidance strategies
    • Insolvency law advice in the context of contract drafting; in particular, implementation of insolvency-proof securities
    • Debtor and creditor advice in the context of insolvency proceedings; support in filing for insolvency; defense against insolvency avoidance claims by the insolvency administrator
    • Drafting of long-term supply contracts, particularly in the waste disposal sector
    • Particular expertise in litigation

     

    Clients

    • Closed-end funds
    • Waste management companies
    • Small and medium-sized enterprises
    • Municipalities and municipal companies
    • Landlords and tenants of commercial and residential premises

    Contact:

    Frau Viola Förster

    Tel.: 030 89 04 92 20

    Fax: 030 89 04 92 10

    Mail: foerster@brs-rechtsanwaelte.de

MALTE BEUSTER
  • Malte Beuster

    Life

    • Born in 1978 in Berlin
    • Studied law at the Free University of Berlin
    • During his legal traineeship, additional legal training from the German Bar Association and the Fernuniversität Hagen
    • 2007 Graduated with distinction in business administration from the University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management, thesis on marketing
    • Member of the law firm BETHGE.REIMANN.STARI since 2007 and partner since 2013
    • Partner of the law firm BETHGE.REIMANN.STARI since January 2014
    • Passed the notarial professional examination in 2019
    • Notary since 2020

    Areas of law

    • Real Estate Law
    • Commercial and Corporate Law
    • Inheritance and Family Law
    • Banking and Capital Markets Law

    Competencies

    Real estate transactions, in particular

    • Acquisition and sale of real estate
    • Real estate project developments
    • Property development contracts
    • Financing
    • Leaseholds

    Corporate law, in particular

    • Foundation of companies and drafting of articles of association
    • Design and structuring of holding structures (particularly in accordance with the Transformation Act)
    • Transfer of company and business shares
    • Liquidation of companies

    Design of corporate and private asset succession, in particular

    • Transfer agreements (particularly for spouses and children)
    • Establishment of family companies
    • Contractual arrangements for company succession
    • Marriage contracts

    Preparation of testamentary dispositions (wills and inheritance contracts)


    Advance directives (general powers of attorney, living wills)


    Advice and support for corporate and real estate financing


    Clients

    • Large and medium-sized companies (especially from the real estate industry)
    • Property developers
    • Project companies
    • Entrepreneurs
    • Banks

    Memberships

    • German Bar Association (DAV)
    • Working Group on Banking and Capital Markets Law within the DAV

    Contact:

    For the notary sector:

    Mrs. Nicolina Grösche

    Tel.: 030 89 04 92 35

    Fax: 030 89 04 92 10

    Mail: groesche@brs-notar.de


    Mrs. Wiebke Bielok

    Tel.: 030 89 04 92 46

    Fax: 030 89 04 92 10

    Mail: bielok@brs-notar.de


    Mrs. Susanne Engler

    Tel.: 030 89 04 92 14

    Fax: 030 89 04 92 10

    Mail: engler@brs-notar.de


    For the legal sector:

    Frau Uta Bendrich

    Tel.: 030 89 04 92 15

    Fax: 030 89 04 92 10

    Mail: bendrich@brs-rechtsanwaelte.de

    Uses
DANIEL WENDLAND
  • Daniel Wendland

    Life

    • Born in 1965 in Berlin - studied and completed legal training in Berlin
    • 1995 – 2023 Attorney at law in a business consulting firm,
    • Since 1999 Partner, specializing in real estate law
    • Since 2011 Notary Public
    • 2011-2023 Member of the Board of a worldwide network of law firms
    • Since January 2024 Partner of the law firm BETHGE.REIMANN.STARI

    Areas of law

    • Real Estate Law
    • Commercial and Corporate Law
    • Inheritance Law

    Competencies

    Real estate law, especially

    • Land purchase agreements
    • Other land rights
    • Project development
    • Property development agreements
    • Commercial tenancy law

     

    Corporate law, especially

    • Foundation and transformation of companies
    • Drafting of partnership agreements
    • Company purchase agreements

     

    Inheritance law succession regulations


    Clients

    • Real estate investors from all over the world
    • Medium-sized companies
    • Property developers
    • Project companies

    Memberships

    • DAV (German Bar Association)
    • Working Group on Tenancy Law and Real Estate in the DAV
    • German-Greek Lawyers Association

    Contact:

    For the notary sector:

    Mrs. Katharina Meising-Freimark

    Tel.: 030 89 04 92 45

    Fax: 030 89 04 92 10

    Mail: winter@brs-notar.de


    For the legal sector:

    Frau Uta Bendrich

    Tel.: 030 89 04 92 15

    Fax: 030 89 04 92 10

    Mail: bendrich@brs-rechtsanwaelte.de

    Uses
DR. BIRGIT ORTLIEB
  • Dr. Birgit Ortlieb

    Life

    • born 1964 Langenberg/Westphalia
    • Studied in Göttingen
    • Legal clerkship in Celle, Bamberg, Würzburg, Passau and Sydney/Australia
    • From 1992 to 1993 research assistant at the chair for civil law, labor and commercial law of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hromadka at the University of Passau - collaboration on a labor law handbook for managers and teaching law for paralegals and notary assistants at the Weiterbildungsakademie gemeinnützige GmbH in Dresden
    • From 1993 to 1995 consultant for the Association of Berlin-Brandenburg Housing Companies eV - BBU - Berlin - responsible in particular for the law of the new federal states (property law); heat supply contracts; Regularly conducted teaching units on collective bargaining law and civil law for trainees in the housing industry.
    • From 1995 to 1999, consultant at DEGES Deutsche Einheit Fernstraßenplanungs- und -bau GmbH - responsible for legal matters and all fundamental issues of public procurement law, as well as all public procurement and contract law issues related to the construction of the Baltic Sea motorway (A 20).
    • From 1999 to 2002, lawyer at a law firm specializing in energy law in Berlin.
    • From 2002 to 2013, VIK Association of the Industrial Energy and Power Industry (VIK); most recently as Managing Director of the association - responsible for maintaining and developing the association's political contacts with the Bundestag, Bundesrat, federal ministries, state representations, associations, universities, and all other institutions dealing with energy issues.
    • Since January 2004, founding partner of the law firm BETHGE.REIMANN.STARI and member of our Energy and Public Procurement Law practice group.

    Areas of law

    • Vergaberecht
    • Energierecht

    Competencies

    • Design and support of public procurement procedures in the areas of construction, services, and supplies
    • Special compensation schemes under the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG)
    • Special abuse proceedings under the Energy Industry Act (EnWG)
    • Representation before antitrust and regulatory authorities
    • Energy management concepts
    • Individual network charges

    Clients

    • Industrial customers
    • Municipal energy supply companies (suppliers or network operators)
    • Municipalities

    Memberships

    • Founding member of the EWeRK Institute for Energy and Competition Law in the Municipal Economy eV at the Humboldt University of Berlin
    • Member of the Forum Vergabe eV
    • Supporting member of the UN Refugee Agency

    Contact:

    Ms. Andrea Günther

    Tel.: 030 89 04 92 34

    Fax: 030 89 04 92 10

    Mail: guenther@brs-rechtsanwaelte.de

    Publications
ANDREAS BÖHLKE
  • Andreas Böhlke

    Life

    • Born in 1990 in Berlin
    • Studied in Potsdam and Berlin
    • 2016 to 2018: Academic assistant in a law firm specializing in corporate law, inheritance law, and tax law
    • Referendariat in Cottbus
    • 2019: Admitted to the bar
    • 2019 to 2021: Attorney at a law firm specializing in medical law
    • Since 2021 Attorney at BETHGE.REIMANN.STARI

    Areas of law

    • Commercial and corporate law
    • Commercial contract law

    Competencies

    • Ongoing corporate law advice for closed-end real estate funds
    • Representation in the context of procedural enforcement and defense of claims (including shareholder disputes, disputes regarding defective resolutions, disputes between management and the company)
    • Ongoing advice to corporations and their bodies

    Clients

    • Closed-end real estate funds
    • Initiators, issuers, founding shareholders and officers
    • Small and medium-sized enterprises

    Contact:

    Mrs. Anni Jasmin Krickow

    Tel.:030 89 04 92 16

    Fax: 030 89 04 92 10

    Mail: krickow@brs-rechtsanwaelte.de

CHRISTINA GUTBERLET
  • Christina Gutberlet

    Life

    • Born in 1991 in Frankfurt am Main
    • Studied in Würzburg, Salzburg, and Berlin (1st State Examination in Law)
    • Lawyer in a law firm specializing in consumer rights
    • Referendariat in Berlin (2nd State Examination in Law)
    • Admitted to the Berlin Bar in 2023

    Areas of law

    • Energierechtliche Vertragsgestaltung
    • Konzessionsvertragsrecht
    • Prozessführung

    Competencies

    • Questions on concession contract law
    • Energy law contract drafting and review (electricity, gas, heat)
    • Questions on energy law and general civil law cases
    • Judicial and out-of-court dispute resolution

    Contact:

    Ms. Andrea Günther

    Tel.: 030 89 04 92 34

    Fax: 030 89 04 92 10

    Mail: guenther@brs-rechtsanwaelte.de

ALLAN BÖHNER
  • Annika Franz

    Life

    • Born in 1993 in Berlin
    • Studied in Jena (1st State Examination in Law)
    • Referendariat in Leipzig (2nd State Examination in Law)
    • 2024: Admitted to the Bar
    • 2024: Attorney at a commercial law firm
    • Since 2025: Attorney at BETHGE.REIMANN.STARI

    Areas of law

    • Immobilienrecht

    Competencies

    • Residential and commercial tenancy law
    • Drafting and review of residential and commercial tenancy agreements
    • Advice on the implementation and termination of residential and commercial tenancy agreements
    • Condominium law (WEG)
    • Leasehold law
    • Property law
    • Neighborhood law
    • Real estate agency law

    Contact:

    Mrs. Anni Jasmin Krickow

    Tel.:030 89 04 92 16

    Fax: 030 89 04 92 10

    Mail: krickow@brs-rechtsanwaelte.de

  • Leonard Altemöller

    Life

    • Born in 1993 in Mettingen (Westphalia)
    • Studied in Hamburg (1st State Examination in Law)
    • Worked as a research assistant in a multidisciplinary law firm in Hamburg
    • Legal clerkship in Lüneburg (2nd State Examination in Law)
    • Admitted to the Berlin Bar in 2025

    Areas of law

    • Energy law contract design

    Competencies

    • Energy law contract drafting and review (electricity, gas, heat)
    • Concession contract law
    • Questions on energy law and general civil law cases
    • Judicial and extrajudicial dispute resolution

    Contact:

    Ms. Andrea Günther

    Tel.: 030 89 04 92 34

    Fax: 030 89 04 92 10

    Mail: guenther@brs-rechtsanwaelte.de

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  • DIETER BETHGE Notary Public (ret.) | Attorney (ret.)

    Dear Sir or Madam, Mr. Dieter Bethge has resigned from his position as a notary and is no longer practicing as an attorney. Furthermore, he left our firm effective December 31, 2023. Mr. Bethge has handed over his notarial files to the Chamber of Notaries. We no longer have any of Mr. Bethge's notarial files, not even copies. If you have any questions regarding activities handled by Mr. Bethge as a notary – especially deeds – please contact the Berlin Chamber of Notaries directly (https://www.notarkammer-berlin.de).


    Contact:

    For the notary sector:

    Mrs. Nicolina Grösche

    Tel.: 030 89 04 92 35

    Fax: 030 89 04 92 10

    Mail:groesche@brs-notar.de


    For legal matters, please contact Mr. Andreas Noack, Attorney at Law:

    Frau Viola Förster

    Tel.: 030 89 04 92 20

    Fax:030 89 04 92 10

    Mail:foerster@brs-rechtsanwaelte.de