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Noerr appoints six new partners starting from 2017 - Seite 2

negotiation skills at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.

Michael Hawkins (35), solicitor in Alicante. Michael is an expert in
European trade mark and design law who assists international companies from
a wide range of sectors in protecting and defending their intellectual
property. He acts for companies such as King, a developer of video games,in
all its trade mark and design law matters worldwide, for example. Apart
from this, he advises the US-based veterinary medicine group Zoetis on
strategic matters and in proceedings before the European Union Intellectual
Property Office (EUIPO). The World Trademark Review regards him as being
among "The World's Leading Trademark Professionals".

Alexander Israel (38), lawyer in Brussels. Alexander is a specialist in
antitrust law, litigation before the EU courts and regulatory issues and
mainly advises companies from the aerospace, automobile, financial
services, consumer goods and technology sectors. He represents various
vehicle manufacturers in antitrust proceedings before the EU Commission and
coordinates their global defence strategies. In addition, he has advised
Lufthansa on matters including the acquisition of Brussels Airlines, bmi
and Austrian Airlines and during the STAR Alliance investigations. He
succeeded in obtaining a reduction of EUR205 million in the fine imposed on
a cartel in the sanitation sector and defended an investment bank on the
subject of credit default swaps before the EU Commission and the DoJ.
Chambers Global, Chambers Europe 2016 and Juve rate him as one of the
leading advisors in Brussels.

Dr. Patrick Mückl (38), lawyer in Düsseldorf. Patrick is an employment law
expert who provides national and international companies with broad-based
employment advice. His practice focuses on (strategic) spin-off,
restructuring and reorganisation plans. In this context he recently advised
several well-known food manufacturers on the restructuring of their German
facilities, a leading manufacturer of special steel on complex
restructuring measures and a manufacturer of specialist software on a
cross-border reorganisation. In addition, Patrick provides employment law
advice on major corporate transactions, advising Vonovia on the sale of
13,800 residential units to LEG and the billion-euro takeover of the Südewo
Group and trivago on its IPO in New York, for example. Patrick is the
author of many publications in the field of employment law.

Dr. Nikolai Warneke (39), lawyer in Frankfurt am Main. Nikolai is an expert