Kerstin advises extensively on complex engineering, construction and real estate projects, as well as on compliance issues. This includes contract drafting and contract management concerning all project-related agreements including the architects’, engineering and project management contracts as well as real-time advice during all project phases. Her activities also focus on advising on facility and building management. She represents clients in negotiations as well as before courts and arbitral tribunals. Additionally, she works in the area of out-of-court dispute resolution and mediation.
What others say
Leading lawyer for construction law 2023
WirtschaftsWoche Top-Kanzleien
One of the most frequently recommended lawyers for construction law
Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers® 'Germany's Best Lawyers 2023'
Lawyer with the most recommendations from in-house lawyers for real estate and construction law
Kanzleimonitor 2014/2015 (law firm directory of the German federal association of in-house lawyers)
Recent work
- Advising renowned companies on plant engineering law e.g. on the new construction of a plant for the processing and marketing of agricultural products and on the extension of a plant for the manufacturing of products for the pharmaceutical, health and plastics sectors as well as packaging, as well as on the construction of wind farms
- Advising an international pharmaceutical company on the planning and construction of a complex industrial plant for the production of vaccines; value c.€145m
- Managing complex arbitration process in the plant engineering sector
- Compliance audits and advice on improving internal rules for the prevention of corruption by reputable companies
- Project leader in a significant construction and renovation project for a major bank; contract drafting and negotiation (e.g. project management, architects’, engineers’ and technical planners’ contracts, contracts for specialist professionals and executing companies), strategic legal advice, e.g. with regard to the award and during the establishment phase; value c.€130m
- Co-project leader JurProM® on a high-rise new build project (planning, architects, project managers and comprehensive project advice, claim and anti-claim management during the establishment phase); value c.€700m
- Advising a renowned civil engineering company (in particular on contracts with public principals and innovative contractual models)
- Advising and representing a major UK real estate investor on the implementation of wide-ranging defect claims
- Out-of-court dispute resolution
Curriculum vitae
- Studied at the Administrative Science University Wiesbaden/Frankfurt, 1989 to 1992
- Studied law at the University of Frankfurt/Main, 1992 to 1995
- Research assistant at the University of Frankfurt in civil and environmental, 1995 to 1998
- Legal clerkship, 1995 to 1998
- PhD on environmental and competition law, 1998 to 1999
- Lawyer (Rechtsanwältin) at a major international law firm 1998 to 2000, at Kapellmann since 2000
Further qualifications and memberships
- Speaker at various seminars on real estate, construction, works and purchase contract law as well as on plant engineering law
