Hermann Lindhorst (DE)

Dr. Hermann Lindhorst is a partner of SCHLARMANNvonGEYSO, a law firm from Hamburg, ‚Germany. He is a IP lawyer („Board certified specialist in IP-law“) and represents inter alia music groups and managers in all copyright-related aspects. Dr. Lindhorst studied law at the University of Kiel with stations in Rome, London and Berlin and received a scholarship at the „Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum-, Wettbewerbs- und Steuerrecht“ in Munich to write his doctoral thesis, which was supervised by Professor Haimo Schack. After being admitted to the bar in 2004, he started working for one of Germany’s most renowned law firm where he worked until 2008 before joining SCHLARMANNvonGEYSO. He acts in numerous copyright cases, also before Germany’s Constitutional Court and the European Court of Justice, and is co-author of the prestigious commentary „Möhring-Nicolini, Urheberrechtsgesetz“. He regularly lectures at universities and conferences. He is Member of the International Bar Association (IBA). Dr. Lindhorst is also a highly regarded franchise- and sports lawyer. Dr. Hermann Lindhorst, who can be contacted under [email protected], speaks German, English and Italian.