Lars specialises in public commercial law, advising federal, state and local authorities on sovereign and fiscal matters, including complex procurement and restructuring projects. He also represents private sector clients in legal matters involving regulated markets, particularly in the energy, ICT, life sciences and healthcare sectors.

Lars's experience

  • Advising a public utility company on procurement and civil law aspects of a public procurement procedure for the construction of a fibre-optic telecommunications network, including the use of public funding.

  • Advised a municipal commercial enterprise on strategic and public procurement law advice on the expansion of its business activities into new economic sectors.

  • Advised a private energy services provider with comprehensive advice on procurement, civil and municipal law aspects relating to the lease of municipal roof areas in Lower Saxony for the installation and operation of photovoltaic systems.

  • Advising a company in the healthcare sector in connection with arbitration proceedings with a private contractual partner regarding disputed rights and obligations under a back to back agreement concerning the supply and reprocessing of medical equipment as well as the provision of additional service offerings.

  • Advised European energy coordination centre on procurement law in relation to European cooperation projects together with advice on the strategic realignment of the procurement system.

  • Advised one of the largest municipal IT service providers in Germany with strategic and legal support for EU-wide tender on resource management software.

  • Advised a healthcare service company specialising in medical technology supply and instrument management on participating in public tenders for the maintenance of medical instruments for public hospitals, as well as on service contracts with its customers.

  • Provided comprehensive advice on public procurement and state aid law to a state-owned company on the admissibility of the tender-free transfer of roof areas of public buildings in Lower Saxony for the installation and operation of PV systems by the client.

  • Provided comprehensive public procurement law assessment of all business areas and activities of a state-owned cooperative as well as assessing a re-use model for EfA services developed by the cooperative.

  • Advising the Ministry of Schools and Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia on public procurement law, in particular on the design and implementation of a Europe-wide negotiated procedure for the award of advertising agency services for the appreciation and recruitment of teachers in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Credentials

  • 2024
    Pinsent Masons - Partner
  • 2016
    Certified lawyer for procurement law
  • 2003
    Admission to the bar Germany
  • 2002
    University of Cologne and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Law (Doctorate)
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