Specialist lawyers
A selection from our network
Carsten Laschet
Carsten Laschet is a partner at Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner mbB.
For more than 10 years he has headed the Machinery Law Day as part of the Machinery Days in Cologne.
Areas of law
- Product liability
- Machine law
- Insurance law
- Contract law
Klaus Dannecker
Klaus Dannecker is the author of the "Product Liability" section at www.maschinenrichtlinie.de. He is a freelance lawyer specializing in liability and contract law.
As a lawyer, he can look back on more than 25 years of experience in the legal department of a leading international mechanical and plant engineering company, where he was the "center of competence" and was responsible, among other things, for the areas of product safety and product liability law as well as the topic of CE marking in contracts.
Rainer Burkardt
Rainer Burkardt is a lawyer and managing partner at Burkardt & Partner Rechtsanwälte Shanghai.
With over 24 years of experience in China, he advises domestic and foreign companies on all aspects of foreign trade law, trade and distribution law, drafting contracts, ESG and data protection. His clients mainly include medium-sized companies, but also consortia from industry, plant and mechanical engineering and from information technology. His practice also includes judicial and extrajudicial dispute resolution, including arbitration.
He regularly gives specialist lectures, including at the Machinery Days in Cologne.
Dr. Ulrich Becker
Dr. Ulrich Becker is a partner in the law firm CMS Hasche Sigle.
He regularly gives lectures at the Machinery Days in Cologne.
He provides comprehensive advice on civil and commercial law, in particular on operationally relevant issues in the area of purchasing and sales as well as in the area of product liability and product safety.
