Claus Köhler is specialized in corporate law, M&A, joint ventures, antitrust law, restructuring and arbitration. His emphasis in these areas is also on transborder issues, with a particular focus on the USA, Poland and the UK. He also gained special expertise in trademark law and copyright law while working at a multinational firm based in the USA. Claus Köhler also advises on compliance, especially relating to company law and antitrust law, and on D&O liability.

He represents clients before the courts and arbitration panels in these areas. Claus Köhler is President of the Permanent Arbitration Panel of the German-Romanian Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Bucharest and is Vice President of the Permanent Arbitration Panel of the German-Polish Chamber of Industry and Commerce. He has been an arbitrator or party representative in numerous arbitration proceedings (ICC, UNCITRAL, DIS and ad hoc). Claus Köhler is a founding partner of MEISTERLAW (2010). Prior to this, he was a partner in international law firms in Munich for a total of 15 years. He founded and was managing partner of foreign branches in London and Warsaw. Claus Köhler worked four years in a multinational US-based firm, and was as a lawyer in Munich for two years prior to that.

He studied law at the University of Munich (Dr. jur., 1990), the University of Geneva and at Georgetown University (LL.M., 1989) and is a professor at Kozminski University in Warsaw (2001). Claus Köhler is admitted to the New York bar and to the United States Supreme Court. He is a certified specialist in trade and company law (Fachanwalt für Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht).

Harald Hess is specialized in M&A, company law, commercial law and labor law. He advises listed companies and family-run companies, partners and managers on acquiring companies, joint ventures and capital, conversion and operations structural changes, in particular in the context of transborder transactions and contracts. He advises clients on all types of operative agreements, fundamental business decisions and on compliance issues. Harald Hess has many years of experience in planning, preparing, executing and managing national and international business transactions and legal projects. This includes labor law and works constitutions in the context of business transfers and changes in business structures, assessing legal aspects of transactions in the areas of competition law, copyright and foreign trade regulations and post-merger integration.

Harald Hess is a founding partner of MEISTERLAW (2010). Prior to this he worked in Atlanta, Frankfurt and Munich, including six years at a large US law firm, where he specialized in international business transactions He studied law at the University of Bayreuth. Harald Hess has an LL.M. (Master of Laws) in business acquisitions and business structuring (M&A). He is a member of the M&A Alumni Deutschland e.V.

Jonathan Meisse advises on IT, data protection and antitrust law and on M&A. He represents clients in domestic and transborder matters, with a focus on transactions and actions for damages under cartel law. His practice involves advising, conflict resolution and litigation as well as enforcement of titles, mainly in his areas of focus. Jonathan Meisse also advises clients on complex IT projects, for example in designing and operating complex IT infrastructures and software, and often on any related data protection matters.

Jonathan Meisse is a partner at MEISTERLAW and was admitted to the German bar in 2015. He worked for an international law firm in Munich and in New York in M&A and insolvency law. He studied law at the University of Tübingen and the University of Munich with a focus on the areas mentioned above and company law and capital markets law. He worked for several years in IT and business consulting for a renowned mid-sized consulting firm. Jonathan Meisse observes developments in digital legal services as is interested in the digital transformation. Until his appointment to partnership he was Data Protection Officer at MEISTERLAW.

Kerstin Zscherpe is specialized in information technology (IT) and has advised domestic and international firms for over 17 years in all areas involving IT contracts, e-commerce and data protection. Her particular focus is on outsourcing and software-as-a-service agreements, as well as contract for IT projects and developing and licensing software. Another focus of her practice is data protection issues, in particular regarding international data transfers, data protection compliance inspections, issues on employee data protection and e-discovery. Kerstin Zscherpe is also specialized in all legal issues related to creating a website, website audits and other matters related to Internet law.

She is a co-author of a leading commentary on data protection in practice and a renowned speaker at data protection and IT law seminars (e.g. for the Association of Data Protection Officers in Germany e.V.: BvD). She is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), the German Society for Law and Computer Science (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik – DGRI) and the German-Canadian Lawyers Association e.V.

Kerstin Zscherpe has been of counsel for MEISTER LAW since its founding in 2010. Prior to this she worked in international law firms in London, Frankfurt/Main, Toronto and Munich. Kerstin Zscherpe studied law at the University of Munich (2. Staatsexamen, 1999), Université Paris II (Licenciée en Droit, 1994) and University of Münster (Dr. jur., 2002).

Franziska-Katharina Kaske is focused on intellectual property law, industrial law and IT law. In particular, she is active in the field of the new media, trademark, copyright and internet law in national and cross-border cases. She advises and supports clients in litigations and court proceedings.

Franziska-Katharina Kaske was admitted to the bar in 2017. She has been of counsel for MEISTER LAW since 2021. Prior to this she worked as an Associate with MEISTER LAW. She studied law at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich with focus on the above-mentioned legal fields as well as corporate and business law. During her legal traineeship with the Court of Appeals in Munich she worked with focus on the above-mentioned legal fields for MEISTER LAW. She was also employed by a law firm in Daytona Beach, FL, USA, specialized in corporate and business law.

Julia Häberl practices in the areas of corporate and antitrust law, dispute resolution, and national and international commercial law.

Julia Häberl was admitted to the bar in 2025. She received her legal education from Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, where she specialized in international civil and civil procedural law, and from the University of Bergen in Norway. During her clerkship at the Munich Higher Regional Court, she worked at a renowned boutique law firm specializing in conflict resolution and at a large international law firm specializing in commercial law.

Jessica Knöppler advises on corporate and antitrust law, employment law and domestic and international commercial law.

She studied law at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, specialising in “State and Public Administration”. She subsequently completed her legal traineeship within the Naum-burg Higher Regional Court district, including placements in the judiciary, public administration and a law firm specialising in public law.

During her clerkship, Jessica Knöppler worked as a legal trainee for a Stuttgart based large international business law firm. There, she assisted with complex public procurement matters, in particular procurement procedures in the field of local public transport.

Jessica Knöppler was admitted to the bar in 2025 and practises primarily in the above-mentioned areas of law.