Dr Sebastian Mellwig
Specialist lawyer for construction law and architects’ law
Practice groups
Sector groups
- Residential construction
- Offshore Wind
Expertise
- Construction contracts
- Legal management for large-scale projects JurProM®
- Plant engineering law
- Real estate law
- Commercial lease law
Sebastian advises on construction and architects’ law as well as real estate law including asset management. From his earlier actitivites as Head of the Legal Department of a project development and property development company, he is particularly familiar with the requirements of the practice. His key practice areas include the provision of comprehensive project advice on construction development projects and project developments, support for real estate transactions as well as contract drafting and negotiation in works contracts, lease and real estate purchase law.
Recent work
- Legal project management JurProM® of the construction project Sophienterrassen in Hamburg
Curriculum vitae
- Studied law at the Universities of Trier, Lyon and Cologne, 1994 to 2000
- Professional foreign language training in Anglo-US law, 1994 to 1996
- Research assistant in the legal department of an online certifier, 2000 to 2001
- PhD on consumer law at the University of Cologne, 2000 to 2005
- Legal clerkship at the Regional Court of Münster with secondments to Speyer and Sarajevo, 2001 to 2003
- In-house lawyer / Head of the Legal Department of a project development and property development company in Hamburg, 2004 to 2011
- Lawyer at Kapellmann since 2011
Further qualifications and memberships
- Seminars on the effective protection of construction claims