Danielle Herrmann's advisory work focuses on regulated markets, in particular the telecommunications sector. She has more than 15 years of experience advising large German and international companies on complex legal issues in telecommunications and media law, administrative and European law and data protection law. She also deals extensively with the Internet of Things, M2M communications and connectivity, such as for connected vehicles and so-called wearables.

Danielle Herrmann represents clients in administrative and court proceedings, in contract negotiations and in M&A projects and provides competent legal advice on stand-alone matters as well as large international projects. She also has broad experience in cross-border matters and cooperation with other law firms in Germany around the world.

Until Neuland legal was founded in early 2017, Danielle worked as an attorney at the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, and London from 2006, and as Counsel since 2013. Previously, she studied German literature, economics and law at the Goethe University Frankfurt, where she worked as research assistant and lecturer in public law and European law for several years. Stages of her legal traineeship (Referendariat) were at the Administrative Court in Frankfurt am Main and the German Embassy in Lomé, Togo, amongst others. Danielle Herrmann advises in German and English language. She regularly publishes on telecommunications law and digital economy topics.

Dr Stefan Heilmann’s practice focuses on regulatory issues especially in the media and telecommunications sectors. He also has extensive expertise in the fields of data protection and IT law and governance. Finally, an emphasis of his work is on the setup and implementation of high-profile compliance investigations and related data analytics tasks.

The basis for Stefan’s specialisation in information and communications law was already laid during his legal studies at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He broadened and strengthened his expertise during his years as a researcher at the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research in Hamburg. In parallel and during his legal traineeship in Hamburg, Kiel, Sydney, and Kuala Lumpur, Stefan acted as a speaker in numerous workshops and conferences worldwide. In addition to his doctoral thesis on „Anonymity for user-generated content?“, he regularly publishes on issues of data protection, telecommunications, and media law.

Starting in 2012, Stefan worked as an attorney for the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in the Corporate/M&A practice group in Hamburg and until his joining of Neuland legal in May 2017 in the IP/IT team in Frankfurt/Main. Stefan advises in German and English language.

Dr Christoffer Bortz is specialised in contract drafting and negotiation for digital business models and commercial contracts in general. He advises companies in all phases of implementing digital change. Due to his experience in advising IT, telecommunications, and internet companies as well as companies in the financial, general industry, and services sectors, his advice is not only based on legal expertise, but also on operational and technical know-how.

Furthermore, Christoffer advises his German and international clients in complex legal issues of IT and IP law as well as data protection and privacy law and contributes respective know-how to national and cross-border M&A transactions.

Prior to co-founding Neuland legal at the beginning of 2017, Christoffer worked for the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in Frankfurt am Main and New York since 2011, and as an attorney since 2013. Prior to that, Christoffer studied law at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz as well as economics at the distance university of Hagen. In 2012, he obtained his doctorate in law from the University of Mainz with a thesis on copyright licenses in national and international insolvency. Christoffer advises in German and English language.

Dr Marcel Wölfle advises German and international companies in all areas of media, IT, data protection, and telecommunications law.

Marcel studied law at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. He was awarded a Master of Laws in "Intellectual Property & the Digital Economy" at the University of Glasgow and received his doctorate from Goethe University Frankfurt with a dissertation on a (information) constitutional law topic. The International Association of Privacy Professionals (iapp) certified him as "Certified Information Privacy Professional / Europe".

While working on his doctoral thesis, Marcel worked in the field of data protection and telecommunications law at the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and, since 2017, at Neuland legal where he has been an attorney since 2021. He advises in German and English language.

Tim Müller's practice focuses on contract drafting and support for contract negotiations on digital business models. In addition, he regularly advises in the areas of IP and IT law in connection with M&A transactions.

Tim Müller joined Neuland legal in 2020 and has worked there as an attorney since 2022. Before that, he studied law at the Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen. Prior to his legal traineeship he gathered substantial insights into the drafting of contracts in the digital sector while working with a management consulting firm in Switzerland. Tim Müller advises in German and English language.