Dr Menderes Güneş

Lawyer/Partner

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Dr Menderes Güneş

Lawyer/Partner

Areas of specialisation: 
National and international product liability and product safety law, contract law, insurance law and litigation, especially for companies in the automotive and medical products industries as well as in mechanical and plant engineering.

Professional experience:
Admission to practice law in 2006. Lawyer and partner since 2014 with Güneş & Hamdan Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB. Previously an associate lawyer and then partner in a medium-sized German law office specialising in liability law. 

Lecturer for national and European safety law at the University of Applied Sciences in Saarbrücken, Germany.

Education: 
Studied law at Saarland University in Saarbrücken and at Queen Mary Westfield College in London.

Languages:
German, English, Turkish and French

Prof. Dr. Marwan Hamdan

Lawyer/Partner

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Prof Dr Marwan Hamdan

Lawyer/Partner

Areas of specialisation: 
Judicial and extrajudicial counsel to medium-sized businesses in the areas of national and international (particularly French) commercial and contract law, company law, liability and insurance of business executives, and inheritance law as well as matters of succession.  

Professional experience:
Lawyer in Saarbrücken and Saarlouis, Germany, since 2004, as well as a university professor for civil law, commercial law, banking and insurance law since 2009. Prior to this, several years as an assistant to various university chairs.

Education: 
Studied German law at Saarland University, French law at the Centre d´Etudes Juridiques Franco-Allemand (Saarbrücken/Nancy 2) and European law at the University of Limburg in Maastricht; legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of the Saarland with a period working in a commercial law firm in Paris. 

Languages:
German, French and English

Julia Kalinowski, LL. M.

Associate lawyer

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Julia Kalinowski, LL. M.

Associate lawyer

Areas of specialisation:
National and international product liability and product safety law as well as contract law for companies in the automotive industry and in the mechanical and plant engineering industry.

Professional experience:
Admission to practice law in 2018 and an associate lawyer with Güneş & Hamdan Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB since 2018. 

Education:
Studied law at the University of Trier and the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court in Coblenz with stations in major international law firms in Frankfurt am Main. 

Languages:
German, English

Matthias Heinzelmann

Associate lawyer

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Matthias Heinzelmann

Associate lawyer

Areas of specialisation:
National and international product liability and product safety law as well as contract law for companies in the automotive and medical device industry

Professional experience:
Research associate since 2019. Admission to practice law and an associate lawyer with Güneş & Hamdan Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB since September 2021.

Education:
Two years study of mechanical engineering at the Technical University Kaiserslautern. Studied law at the University of Saarland with major subject in German and International Contract and Business Law. Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court in Saarbrücken.

Languages:
German, English

Simone Diwo

Certified legal specialist

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Simone Diwo

Certified legal specialist

Professional experience:
With Güneş & Hamdan Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB since 2014. Prior to that, many years of experience as head of a law firm specialising in commercial law. Also owner of a collection agency.