Dr. Christian Steigüber
Of Counsel
Dr. Christian Steigüber started his professional career in Düsseldorf (Germany) being a lawyer working for a large international law firm primarily focused on intellectual property and copyright law. In the course of time, drafting and reviewing of contracts as well as conducting of contract negotiations took up an ever-increasing part of his work.
After working for an international consumer goods manufacturer in the markets of home and personal care products, Dr. Steigüber took the role as Head of Legal Department. Thereby he and his team were responsible for the legal affairs of the group of companies. In a next step he has taken the same role adding the responsibility for the field of compliance for a sales company of a worldwide leading memory product manufacturer for EMEA region. Currently, Dr. Steigüber is responsible for a leading food producer’s Legal and Compliance Department.
As an external lawyer as well as within his role of an in-house counsel for a group of companies Dr. Steigüber provided legal advice on transactions. Thus, his professional experiences enable him to provide extensive commercial law advice, including M&A.
Dr. Steigüber has studied law at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf and received his PhD (Dr. iur.) in 2010 for his doctoral thesis in the field of unfair competition law and patent law. During his legal clerkship at the District Court Düsseldorf he was working for one of the largest German diversified industrial corporation in Shanghai, China.
| Areas of Specialization |
Commercial Law and Distribution Law
Intellectual Property
(Patent Law, Trademark Law, Copyright Law and Unfair Competition Law)
Compliance (in particular. Data Protection Law)
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| Languages |
German
English |
| Publications |
- Automatischer Verfall der einstweiligen Verfügung in Deutschland nach Ihrem Erlass?, in Wettbewerb in Recht und Praxis (WRP) 2013, 873-880,(gemeinsam mit Daniel Kenji Kaneko)
- Busche/Stoll/Wiebe, TRIPs - Internationales und europäisches Recht des geistigen Eigentums, Kommentar, 2. Auflage, Kommentierung der Art. 41-61 (Teil III Durchsetzung der Rechte des geistigen Eigentums), Carl Heymanns Verlag, 2013 (gemeinsam mit Dr. Sascha Vander, LL.M.)
- Der „neue“ Anspruch auf Urteilsbekanntmachung im Immaterialgüterrecht?, in: Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR) 2011, S. 295-300
- Die Regeloffenlegung im Patentrecht – Ein zweckfremder Anachronismus?, Baden-Baden, Nomos Verlag, Univ.-Diss. Düsseldorf 2010
- Die digitale Kopie im Urheberrecht, in: Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht (ZUM) 2010, S. 228-234 (gemeinsam mit David E.F. Slopek, LL.M.)
- Leitfaden zu Forschungs- und Entwicklungsverträgen zwischen Hochschulen und der Industrie – 4. Auflage, 2008 (gemeinsam mit Jan Busche, Markus Peter, Philipp Runge und Nils Wille)
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| Curriculum Vitae |
- 1984 born in Mannheim.
- 2003 to 2008 legal studies at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, special subject commercial law/intellectual property.
- 2008 to 2010 research assistant to the chair for civil law and intellectual property (Prof. Dr. Jan Busche) at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf.
- 2010 PhD (Dr. iur.).
- 2010 to 2012 legal clerkship at the District Court Düsseldorf with stages inter alia at the 12. Civil Chamber (Unfair Competition Law and Copyright Law) at the District Court Düsseldorf, the law firm CMS Hasche Sigle and BOSCH (China) Investment Ltd. in Shanghai.
- 2012 admission to the German Bar (Düsseldorf).
- 2012 to 2015 lawyer in a large international law firm and secondment in the legal department of a DAX-listed group.
- 2015 to 2019 Head of the Legal Department of an international consumer goods manufacturer in the markets of home and personal care products.
- Since 2019 Head of the Legal Department of a sales company of a worldwide leading memory product manufacturer for EMEA region.
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