The entire publication with 20 country reports is now available online at ICLG.com and our report on German construction and architectural law here for free.

Our authors:

 Dr. Christian Kruska

Erlmest E. Burns, III, J.D.

The country-specific Q&A are intended to provide an overview of the building laws in Germany and related specifications, as well as enabling an international comparison.

Here you can find all country reports: The Legal 500: Construction Country Comparative Guide, the country report for Germany here.

Also available as download: Country Comparative Guide – Construction Germany 2021

United States

Construction Dive, January 11, 2021

“Law firms form alliance to take on international construction.” Read more.

Daily Journal (CA), January 5, 2021

“New construction law alliance to serve US, European clients“. Read more.

Law360, January 6, 2021

“Peckar & Abramson Forms International Constrction Alliance.” Read more.

France

Le Monde du Droit, 14 Janvier 2021

“Altana, Breyer Rechtsanwälte, Peckar & Abramson et PS Consulting créent Leading Construction Lawyers International Alliance.” Read more.

Construction Cayola, 14 Janvier 2021

“Naissance d’un géant du droit dans la construction“. Read more.

Germany

JUVE, 26. Januar 2021

“Baurecht: Breyer schmiedet internationale Allianz”. Read more.

The entire law firm Breyer Rechtsanwälte is pleased about the further awards and thanks you for your recommendations as well as the confidence in our work. Thank you very much!

CONSTRUCTION LAW (INCLUDING DISPUTE RESOLUTION) IN GERMANY

TIER 1 LAW FIRM

BREYER RECHTSANWÄLTE

The internationally well-connected boutique firm BREYER RECHTSANWÄLTE can point to an impressively international and multifaceted portfolio of clients, which, in addition to construction-related advice to primarily private construction companies and public clients on large-scale building and civil engineering projects, also includes adjudication proceedings and international arbitration proceedings. The team is frequently called upon in connection with federal construction projects such as embassies and also handles an impressively high number of cooperatively executed construction projects as well as cross-border construction projects under FIDIC guidelines. For example, Wolfgang Breyer, who is experienced in alternative methods of execution, advises together with Michael Burdinski and Mario Verdugo Morales on contractual and project-related aspects of the Bundestag extension on the basis of an integrated project execution contract. Burdinski is regarded as an expert in private construction law and is also frequently involved in wage and hour litigation on major construction projects. Angelika Frohwein focuses on private construction law as well as architectural law.

Partners (“Recommended Lawyers 2021”):

• Dr. Wolfgang Breyer
• Dr. Michael Burdinski
• Angelika Frohwein, LL.M. Eur.
• Mario Verdugo Morales
• Dr. Maximilian Regul
• Sebastian Thomas

Personal awards from THE LEGAL 500 DEUTSCHLAND 2021:

LEADING INDIVIDUAL

Dr. Wolfgang Breyer

NEXT GENERATION PARTNERS

Angelika Frohwein, LLM. Eur.

Breyer Rechtsanwälte, Peckar & Abramson, Altana, and PS Consulting, announce the creation of Leading Construction Lawyers: The International Alliance of Construction Law Professionals

STUTTGART, PARIS, NEW YORK – January 4, 2021 – Under the banner Leading Construction Lawyers (LCL), an international construction law alliance has been formed by the preeminent construction law practices at the French law firm Altana, the German law firm Breyer Rechtsanwälte, the American law firm Peckar & Abramson and the consulting and dispute resolution firm PS Consulting.

The newly formed LCL Alliance will serve the construction and infrastructure industry’s need for multinational excellence in construction legal services and as an international forum for related leadership in addressing industry concerns.

LCL Alliance members have a client-focused and industry engaged approach. The primary goal of the LCL Alliance is to support one another in delivering outstanding results and pragmatic solutions, strategies and advice; all in the interest of serving clients of member firms in connection with a wide range of projects around the world, from infrastructure, transportation, energy, oil & gas, to industrial and building projects.

The LCL Alliance’s mission is to support member firms in offering the highest level of construction related legal services to stakeholders at all project stages throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Gulf.

At the heart of LCL Alliance’s mission is collaboration among the most preeminent construction law firms and practitioners around the globe.

LCL Alliance firms and their respective lawyers are dedicated to the construction and infrastructure sector, and possess among the richest understanding and experience in Construction and Infrastructure Law.

The LCL Alliance is built on a foundation of common values and approach embraced by its founders: the pragmatic marriage of exceptional experience and capability, together with academic engagement and industry service. The LCL Alliance will support member firms as they strive to achieve superior results and offer the most practical and innovative solutions to the challenges facing clients and the international infrastructure community.

As they began working with each other, LCL Alliance founding members came to recognize that they embraced complementary cultures, customs and legal practices, as well as similar business, legal and collaborative approaches. The rare commonality found among member firms spanned borders and crossed both common law and civil code jurisdictions. Establishing a more formal alliance naturally followed.

Collectively, the LCL Alliance has more than 130 professionals and technical consultants present in various jurisdictions in Europe and the United States, with many of these individuals being highly recognized in construction and infrastructure law. Although multi-national and offering a unique alliance and working relationship between member firms, each member firm and their respective lawyers remain independent.

To learn more about LCL Alliance, visit www.lclalliance.com.

This year’s JUVE publisher once again emphasises Dr. Breyer’s essential role and his “great and long-standing commitment in connection with IPD multi-party agreements. The firm advises 2 of the largest German projects to be realised according to this innovative model. This has also convinced new clients, so that Rewe and Bayer now want to realise some of their new building projects according to these standards. In addition, the firm managed to place this issue with the federal government. It has now been mandated for the extension of the Bundestag, which is also to be implemented according to a model with partnering elements.” (translated)

The law firm Breyer Rechtsanwälte says thank you for your recommendations and the trustful and good cooperation.

The entire publication with 21 country reports is now available online at ICLG.com and our report on German law here FREE OF CHARGE.

Our authors:

 Dr. Christian Kruska

Erlmest E. Burns, III, J.D.

The law firm is pleased about the new award and about your satisfaction and trust in the cooperation

This year’s winners are:

The law firm Breyer Rechtsanwälte as “Leading Firm 2020” in the field of “Real Estate- and Construction Law – Construction Law (including dispute resolution)”

Dr. Wolfgang Breyer again in the category “Leading Individual 2020”

Angelika Frohwein, LL.M. EUR. in the category “Next Generation Lawyer 2020”

Dr. Christian Kruska in the category “Rising Star 2020”

You can find the complete evaluation of Breyer Rechtsanwälte here.

The law firm Breyer Rechtanwälte would like to thank you very much for the good cooperation and the confidence you have placed in us. Our aim is to continue to provide you with solution-oriented advice on all issues relating to real estate with a high level of professional competence.

The publisher JUVE highlights in particular the pioneering role of managing partner Dr. Breyer in the field of alternative contract models. In addition to ECE’s pilot project in Hamburg, Spring Valley Park, which wants to realize Europe’s largest innovation quarter in Frankfurt on the basis of an IPD multi-party contract, is now also relying on the know-how of Dr. Breyer.

The highly regarded construction lawyer from Stuttgart, Frank Stege, is moving with his team of real estate lawyers to Breyer Rechtsanwälte. The 12-strong Breyer construction law team in Stuttgart will be strengthened by Frank Stege and Mathias Hörnisch (both specialist lawyers for construction and architectural law), Dr. Martin Ludwig and Frieder Kluß (both specialist lawyers for lease and residential property law) and Stefan Oschmann (specialist lawyer for administrative law with a focus on public construction law). Breyer now has a total of 30 practitioners at its national and international locations.

We are pleased to welcome our new colleagues, thereby expanding our already strong foothold in the Stuttgart market as well as throughout Germany. Frank Stege and Mathias Hörnisch are two experienced experts, especially in the property development business, to which Breyer will devote more attention in the future. The commercial real estate law department, led by Dr. Kruska, will be particularly strengthened in the area of lease and residential property by the new additions Dr. Martin Ludwig and Frieder Kluß. Partner Verdugo Morales has been a consistently prominent figure in this field for many years. Stefan Oschmann, who will take over the area of public construction law at Breyer, will round complete the expansion of the Stuttgart team.

Breyer’s clients include many of the largest German construction companies, project developers and well-known international investors. In addition, Breyer enjoys the trust of the public sector and many medium-sized construction companies. The firm is a leader in the field of introducing and designing innovative partnering contract models based on multi-party contracts in Germany. Dr. Breyer, who gave his name to the firm, has been active worldwide for many years. At the beginning of September, Dr. Breyer successfully entered into a strategic collaboration with the law firm Hanson Bridgett based in San Francisco, California. Hanson Bridgett is the market leader in the field of IPD (Integrated Project Delivery) in the USA and Canada, the introduction of which is being driven forward by Dr. Breyer in Germany and Europe.

Hanson Bridgett is a California based law firm with more than 150 attorneys in offices in San Francisco, Sacramento, the North Bay, the East Bay and Los Angeles. In addition to having a national reputation in the USA, Hanson Bridgett has a significant international footprint as well and will perfectly complement our international vision at Breyer Rechtsanwälte.

Like Breyer Rechtsanwälte in Germany and Europe, which has spearheaded the introduction of IPD to Germany and Europe by handling the first two major pioneer projects, Hanson Bridgett is an industry leader in the implementation of IPD in the USA and Canada, having executed far more projects than any other firm. As of 2018, the Hanson Bridgett IPD team had structured more than 135 pure IPD projects, as well as many more projects using IPD principles.

Our firm strives daily to not only provide the best legal services available in the construction industry, but to constantly improve the quality and variety of those services. Our collaboration with Hanson Bridgett is another example of our commitment to improve the quality and breadth of service that we provide.

For additional information about Hanson Bridgett, please visit: https://www.hansonbridgett.com/.

The law firm is pleased about the new award and about your satisfaction and trust in the cooperation

Some of the highlights included: an overview of international construction projects in Asia, remedies after taking-over, delay analysis from three points of view (consultant, contractor, and lawyer), and the role of the expert witness. As chairman of the ICLA, Dr. Wolfgang Breyer chaired the event and spoke on several topics over the two days of the conference.

For more information on the ICLA or future conferences please visit: http://www.icl-assoc.com/.

This event will be a rare opportunity to compare and contrast the approaches of a diverse range of legal jurisdictions and families (including Russian, Chinese, French, German, English) to a wide range of topics in construction law, with a special focus on Asia. For more information about the Tokyo Conference and online registration, please click here or go to conferencetokyo.icl-assoc.com.

This groundbreaking conference included a combination of hands-on training in Lean Management Fundamentals and Lean Government Framework creation, as well as presentations, case studies, experiential learning simulations, and discussions by internationally renowned Lean industry leaders. The Conference participants aimed to promote the value proposition of applying Lean thinking and Lean production to the public sector and to government institutions.

Dr. Wolfgang Breyer presented on the second day of the Conference. Moderated by Alan Mossman (Secretary, LIPS Steering Committee; Director, The Change Business Ltd.), the topic Dr. Breyer’s panel was “Legal issues in procuring for lean services; issues and principles open and transparent procurement. How can you get the results you want when contracting for services?” His particular contribution included an in-depth examination and analysis of the issues surrounding lean services and open procurement in both Germany and Europe generally.

The full conference agenda can be found here: LIPS 2018-Agenda.

Read the full article here: JUVE Ausgabe 2018/12 – Bauen_mit_Vertrauen. (only german)

This exciting conference featured a comparative look at the approaches of a multitude of jurisdictions (including Russian, Chinese, French, German, English) to a wide variety of topics, including The Employer’s Role and Obligations to the Contractor, General Contractor Contracts, Improving Value through Collaboration (following on from the joint ICLA and King’s College Conference in February 2018), Contract Interpretation and more. Dr. Wolfgang Breyer chaired the event and was the keynote speaker on several topics over the course of this interesting and successful conference.

You can have a look for some impressions of the conferenz in a short video here.

The conference focused on a variety of topics relating to the global practice of construction law, highlighting the legal, business, and economic challenges and opportunities in construction today, with notable speakers from around the world. In particular, Dr. Wolfgang Breyer was a featured panelist in discussions on the varying approaches to international contract interpretation and on international comparative law and how choice of law can affect the disposition of a case.

Further information about the program of the 8th International Society of Construction Law Conference in Chicago can be found here.

For further Information about the conference click here: ICLA Conference Flyer — Moscow 2018.

Titel:    Construction and architectural law

Date:    30.01.2018

Place:   Inhouse-Seminar in Stuttgart

Lec.:     Dr. Breyer, Dr. Burdinski

Titel:    The new construction contract law – civil engineering

Date:    05.02.2018

Place:   Inhouse-Seminar in Stuttgart

Lec.:     Frau Frohwein, LL.M., Dr. Burdinski

Titel:    Construction and architectural law

Date:    08.02.2018

Place:   Inhouse-Seminar in Stuttgart

Lec.:     Dr. Burdinski

Titel:    The new construction contract law 2018

Date:    20.02.2018

Place:   Inhouse-Seminar in Weilheim

Lec.:     Dr. Burdinski

Titel:    Claim management in connection with public construction contracts

Date:    11.04.2018

Place:   Inhouse-Seminar in Leinfelden-Echterdingen

Lec.:     Dr. Burdinski

Southeast University Nanjing, China, 13.-14. March 2018

Dr. Breyer: Lecture on FIDIC at Southeast University Nanjing with a focus on construction law; Training on risks and avoidance measures of international construction law

Fifth Annual Conference of IACL, The International Double Bay, Australia, 12.-15. April 2018

Dr. Breyer: Participation as a Fellow of the International Academy of Construction Law

SCL Conference, Chicago, USA, 27.-29. September 2018

Dr. Breyer: Lecture on contract interpretation from the perspective of European civil law

ICLA Conference, Moscow State University, Russia, expected 15.-17. Oktober 2018

Dr. Breyer: Chairman, lecture (tbd)

Further information about the events and programs will follow shortly.

The new Handbook of “The Legal 500 Germany 2018” will be published in November 2018.

The ICLA Conference facilitated learning and discussion between international construction lawyers from all over the world. The conference also gave non-Chinese legal practitioners and other construction professionals the opportunity to increase their understanding of the specific legal and engineering issues involved in the One Belt One Road project.

For more information on the ICLA and the One Belt One Road Conference, please visit http://www.icl-assoc.com/, which will be updated with an in-depth review soon.

Southeast University Law School, Nanjing, China

Training: One Belt One Road – Analyse of risk and avoidance of risk under international construction projects

Date: 13. – 14. march 2018

Venue: Nanjing, China

Speaker: Dr. Breyer, Dr. Yu

Lecture: Application of FIDIC Contract in Civil Law countries

Dates: 14. march 2018

Venue: Southeast University Law School, Nanjing, China

Speaker: Dr. Breyer

We bring together leading practitioners and thinkers from the UK and from around the world to assess the latest developments and to present case studies explaining how their models work, how they fit with legal requirements and what they can deliver.

THURSDAY 1st MARCH 2018 from 9.00 am.
The Great Hall, King’s Building, Strand Campus

Our speakers include:

Procuring for Value and the UK Construction Sector Deal
Ann Bentley, Lead on Supply Chain and Business Models, Construction Leadership Council

BIM and UK Housing after the Grenfell Tower disaster
Terry Stocks, Digital Built Britain, BIM Level 2 Group Delivery Director

Improving Value Through Strategic Procurement: the FAC-1 Framework Alliance Contract
Antony Silk, Optivo Housing Association and Neil Thody, Cameron Consulting

Contractor Leadership and Whole-Life Collaboration: Supply Chain Alliance case study
Nigel Owers, Kier Services Highways and Jason Russell, Surrey County Council

Assessing the NEC4 options: the NEC Alliance Contract and NEC cost reimbursement
Assad Maqbool, Trowers & Hamlins and Ronan Champion, Champion Pearce

Alliance procurement, BIM and German civil law
Wolfgang Breyer, Chair of ICLA and Prof. Stefan Leupertz, ex- German Supreme Court Judge

BIM, the law and alliances in Italy
Prof. Sara Valaguzza, University of Milan and Prof. Angelo Ciribini, University of Brescia

Funders’ views and the potential for alliances in Eastern Europe
Evgeny Smirnov, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Adriana Spassova, Bulgarian Society of Construction Law

Integrated project delivery and BIM in the USA and alliances in Brazil
Howard Ashcraft, Hanson Bridgett USA and John Oyama, Aroeira Salles, Brazil

SRA CPD scheme & BSB CPD (ref: 1546): 7 HOURS
Registration is at 9.00am and the conference is followed by a drinks reception at 6.00pm.

To book, please fill in the form of the enclosed Alliance Conference Flyer.

For further information:

https://www.juve.de/handbuch/de/2018/ranking/24210#ranking-6276+1985

One of the reasons the award was conferred to us is that we are having a truly international construction law practice advising clients in all parts of the globe on front and back-end construction.
We would like to thank all our clients for their trust and support and contributing to our great success in winning such a sought after award in Germany.
The decision which law firm is nominated and which is awarded is based on extensive research by the editorial department of the annual JUVE handbook. In the field of Construction Law, JUVE awards law firms that develop their practice in an outstandingly dynamical way.

Everyone at Breyer Rechtsanwälte wholeheartedly congratulates both for their achievement.

It is the fifth time (2013-2017) that Dr. Breyer and the third time (2015-2017) that Dr. Burdinski have been named amongst GERMANY’S BEST LAWYERS 2017 in construction law.

He will be accompanied by three colleagues from his previous practice: Dr. iur Hannes Reiher, Stephanie Puma and Annika Kühne. As a result, the Frankfurt office will grow to seven lawyers.

Construction Law IN STUTTGART

17. August 2017 – Workshop – Liability in Construction Contracts (Dr. Breyer)
24. August 2017 – Workshop – Pricing and Claims (Dr. Breyer)
14. August 2017 – 4th. International BBB-Congress, Stuttgart (Dr. Breyer) (german).

Inhouse-Seminare and Workshops

Naturally, we also offer these and other seminars in-house. These can be either offered to your employees in a generalist form, or they can be tailor-made to address the needs of particular projects and directed at particular project teams in a workshop setting.

The goal of the seminars is to improve the knowledge of leaders and managers in the construction sector, in the areas of private construction law, architecture law and procurement law. The workshops also aim to profoundly increase participants’ knowledge of important issues in particularly important areas of construction law, for example, the law of construction contracts. Since leaders and managers in the construction business regularly encounter aspects of other branches of law, including the law of contracts for the sale of goods, the law of contracts for work and materials, social law, insolvency law and employment law, we also cover relevant parts of those legal areas. We offer you and your business bespoke solutions, whether at your offices or at our practices, at times that suit you, for example fortnightly from 5pm to 7pm. In preliminary discussions with you, we would agree on themes that we would cover and set particular focuses for discussion.

Further information can be found under the seminar-tab.

Seminare

for the location Stuttgart at the earliest opportunity.

You have excellent knowledge of the law, proven by an according graduation with honour (Prädikatsexamen). Furthermore you are highly motivated, you are working accurately, and have a convincing appearance. You understand scientifically and technically complex situations and know how to structure them. Our law firm offers highly interesting activities. We provide full-time employment in a professional working atmosphere with adequate salary. In our law firm, you will have the chance to assume responsibility for fascinating and remarkable high-quality clients in only a little while.

Are you interested? If so, we are looking forward to your written application which we would like you to send to Dr. Daniel Junk. You are also welcome to apply by e-mail karriere@breyer-rechtsanwaelte.de.

21-22 October 2017

It is with great pleasure that we announce the date of the bi-annual international construction law conference. Further details of the conference to follow.

Visit www.icl-assoc.com for more information.