Hesse_Leonie

Leonie Hesse

Hesse_Leonie

Leonie Hesse

Counsel

Berlin + 49 30 20 22 63 55

Leonie Hesse is a counsel in the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice as well as the firm’s Public Policy and Legislative Affairs Group. She advises both international and German clients on a wide range of matters, in particular European and German regulatory law, European human and fundamental rights, and public policy.

Ms. Hesse’s expertise includes railway regulation and infrastructure financing as well as digital platform regulation and data protection law. In addition, she counsels clients in European human and fundamental rights and in art restitution cases.

Ms. Hesse joined the firm in 2019. While pursuing her legal education, she worked for the Chair for Public Law, European Law and Public International Law at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg.

Experience

  • Advising and representing a global technology company in various data protection and consumer protection disputes in Germany and other European countries, including representation in litigation proceedings before the EU Courts.
  • Advising and representing Deutsche Bahn AG in a dispute with public entities on the financing of cost increases of the Stuttgart 21 infrastructure project.
  • Strategic advice of a cultural institution on fundamental questions of art restitution law in connection with the restitution claims for the Guelph Treasure.
  • Advising a digital platform provider on questions in relation to European regulatory law., e.g. the Digital Services Act and Services Directive.
  • Advising an EU institution on European administrative law, bank resolution and data protection law, including representation in litigation proceedings before the EU Courts.

Recognition

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Credentials

  • Education

    • Second State Exam, Berlin Court of Appeals, 2018

    • First State Exam, Free University of Berlin, 2016

  • Admissions

    • Berlin

  • Languages

    • German

    • English

    • French

    • Spanish

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