Katharina Stefanie Franke
Areas of practice
Katharina Franke positions herself as a strategic partner, specialising in providing comprehensive advice and support to both contracting authorities and bidders in EU procurement procedures, national invitations to tender and structured bidding procedures.
She regularly represents the interests of contracting authorities in her role as an external procurement office and legal project manager in complex procedures. Katharina Franke contributes her expertise to the preparation of tender documents, but also reviews requests to participate and tenders with the utmost attention to detail. Her ability to efficiently organise and conduct bidder presentations and negotiation meetings underlines her competence as a reliable advisor.
Vita
Over the course of her academic and professional career, Katharina Franke has developed into an expert in the field of public procurement law. Her university education laid a sound foundation for this specialisation, as she focused on economic administration, environmental law and infrastructure planning, an area that also included the multifaceted field of privatisation and public procurement law.
During her legal training, in particular whilst working at the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Katharina Franke deepened her knowledge of public procurement law. This experience enabled her to translate legal theories into practice and gave her valuable insights into state regulation, procurement and financing mechanisms. In addition, she also improved her knowledge and skills by working for one of the leading international consulting and audit firms in Germany, where she gained significant insights into international business structures and legal practices. This part of her legal training helped her develop a deeper understanding of the interplay between national and international law.
Since being admitted to the German Bar in 2018, Katharina Franke has not only applied her knowledge of public procurement law in practice, but has also consistently expanded and refined it.
Clients
- Ongoing public procurement law advice on large-scale projects (in particular in the planning and construction sectors and in the field of information technology) for a large number of contracting authorities, including ministries, police authorities, government agencies, municipalities, university hospitals, universities and student welfare organisations, as well as for companies
- RAG Aktiengesellschaft – ongoing advice in connection with large-scale EU-wide sectoral procurement procedures, for example, shaft conversion measures (around EUR 120 million), tunnel project (around EUR 200 million), treatment plant for mine water management (around EUR 45 million)
- International chemicals company – advice on an investment project regarding electrolysis of water in the three-digit million euro range using public funding (IPCEI project)
- International glass manufacturer – advice on an investment project regarding decarbonisation in the three-digit million euro range using public funding (CEEAG project)
- Bidder representation – advice to an IT service provider on its participation in an EU-wide invitation to tender for the development of telemedicine in Bavaria, double-digit million euro range
- Town of Herne – advice on EU state aid and public procurement law aspects of large projects, among other things
Senior Associate
Dr Stefan Altenschmidt, LL.M. (Nottingham)
Partner
Dusseldorf
Bernhard Burkert, LL.M. (Stellenbosch)
Counsel
Berlin
Christiane Frye
Counsel
Essen
Martin Steuber, LL.M.
Partner
Dusseldorf
Stephan Finck
Partner
Leipzig
Ulrich Siegemund
Of Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Thomas Gohrke
Partner
Hanover, Leipzig
Frank Gutsche
Partner
Stuttgart
Steffen Häberer
Partner
Leipzig
Dr Richard Happ
Partner
Hamburg
Dr Henning Holz, LL.M.
Counsel
Hanover
Dr Barbara Schmidt
Partner
Leipzig
Karsten Köhler
Partner
Leipzig
Henner M. Puppel
Partner
Essen
Ulf-Dieter Pape
Partner
Hanover
Andreas Mally
Counsel
Leipzig
Achim Meier
Partner
Essen
Michael Kunkel, LL.M.
Partner
Cologne
Rolf Corsten
Of Counsel
Dusseldorf
Dr Sabrina Desens
Partner
Leipzig
Prof. Dr Tobias Leidinger
Partner
Dusseldorf
Dr Martin Fleckenstein
Partner
Berlin
Dr Franziska Klaß-Dingeldey, MLE
Senior Associate
Hanover
Daniel Naumann
Partner
Leipzig
Patrick Gocht
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Dr Gerd-Ulrich Kapteina
Partner
Essen
Prof. Christian Zanner
Partner
Berlin
Katharina Klenk-Wernitzki, Dipl. Reg.-Wiss
Partner
Berlin, Cologne
Dr Frederic Tewes
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Jenny Tsynn
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Prof. Dr Herbert Willems
Partner
Essen
Elena Recklin
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Michael Bormann
Partner
Dusseldorf
Hannah Aigner
Senior Associate
Munich
Nils Kramer
Senior Associate
Essen
Dr Frank Seidel
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Piotr Kwiatkowski, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Essen
Ruth-Maria Thomsen
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Jens Bock
Partner
Berlin
Doreen König
Partner
Berlin
Lisa Niesen
Senior Associate
Essen
Matthias Wagner
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Jan Lachhein
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Matthias Mehlwitz, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Essen
Katharina Stefanie Franke
Senior Associate
Essen
Dr Stefan Mager
Partner
Essen
Dr Rut Herten-Koch, M.A.
Partner
Berlin
Paul Herter
Senior Associate
Stuttgart
Nicole Bittlingmayer
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dianusch Nazari
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Jens Kaiser
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Anna-Sophia Riebeling
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Bela Jansen
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr jur Stephan Götze
Partner
Berlin
Lisa Marie Siewer, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Cologne
Pauline Müller
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Dr Zacharias-Alexis Schneider, LL.B., LL.M.
Partner
Hanover
Marco-Marcel Niebuhr
Senior Associate
Hanover
Dr Oliver Maaz
Partner, Principal Consultant
Cologne
Annkatrin Merzig
Senior Associate
Essen
Sarah Hossenfelder
Senior Associate
Essen
Darja Amelcenko, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Berlin
Nina Eckardt
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Susanne Burkert-Vavilova
Counsel
Essen
Tobias Osseforth, Mag. rer. publ.
Partner
Munich
Dr Stephen Lampert
Counsel
Munich
Jenny Schindler
Senior Associate
Munich
Sophie Schulz
Associate
Leipzig
Lea Franken
Associate
Dusseldorf
Iris Glönkler
Partner
Stuttgart
Annkathrin Egerer-Tratt
Senior Associate
Stuttgart
Magnus Wessels
Associate
Essen
Dr Melanie Verstege
Counsel
Essen
Charlotte Jodocy
Senior Associate
Essen
Maria Marinez
Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Nurolhaq Rostamzada
Senior Associate
Cologne
Nina Hahnke
Associate
Essen
Caroline Ackermann
Counsel
Munich
Frederike Peters
Senior Consultant
Berlin
Sarah Peuser
Associate
Leipzig
Theresa Oesch
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Simon Wickel
Associate
Dusseldorf
Henrik Fischer
Associate
Leipzig
Marius Merfeld
Associate
Dusseldorf
Dr Clara Schulze Velmede
Associate
Leipzig
Prof. Dr Johannes Beermann
Of Counsel
Berlin
Vera Wechsler, LL.M. (Tulane)
Associate
Dusseldorf
Dr Andreas Vath
Partner
Munich
Mathar Ahmed Bajwa, LL.M.
Associate
Cologne
Christoph Kolb
Associate
Leipzig
Oliver Glasen-Nitschke
Associate
Essen
Christoph Grünenthal, MLE
Associate
Berlin
Jakob Gauly
Associate
Dusseldorf
Katharina Foede
Associate
Berlin
Ahmed Zoughbi
Associate
Dusseldorf
Dr Joanna Rupa-Sträßer, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Essen
Leonie Herwarth von Bittenfeld, LL.B., M.A.
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Eric Doyé
Associate
Leipzig
Susanne Winkler, LL.M.
Associate
Stuttgart
Kevin Oestreich
Senior Consultant
Essen
Dr Florian Hensel, LL.M.
Associate
Munich
Jade Timmermann, LL.M. (London)
Associate
Leipzig
Sabrina Behbehani
Associate
Munich
Leif Dustin Schneider
Counsel
Ho Chi Minh City
Julia Walther
Associate
Leipzig
Hannah-Laura Schütte
Senior Associate
Stuttgart, Dusseldorf
Ngoc Nhu Nguyen
Associate
Leipzig
Morten Steimann
Associate
Essen
Kati Gütschow
Associate
Dusseldorf
Oliver Köhler
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Max H. Becker
Associate
Essen
Marie Hoster, LL.B.
Associate
Essen, Dusseldorf
Lisa Jennifer Schmölz
Counsel
Munich
Alexander F. Liebing, LL.M.
Counsel
Leipzig
Andrea Heim
Senior Associate
Stuttgart
Małgorzata Albe, LL.M.
Junior Consultant
Leipzig
Julian Plötz
Associate
Leipzig
Julian Günniker
Essen
Tobias Jedermann
Associate
Leipzig
Dr David von Saucken, MJur (Oxon)
Partner
Berlin, London
Nina Klünker, LL.M. (KCL)
Associate
Berlin
Marielle Lorraine
Associate
Munich
Julian Pöhler
Counsel
Hamburg
Benedict Tobias Tiemann
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Georg Scherpf
Partner
Hamburg
Elisa Röhr
Associate
Dusseldorf
Lars Bollensen
Partner
Hamburg
Johannes Kugler
Associate
Munich
Dr Jana Karras
Associate
Leipzig
Niklas Roth
Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Daniel Stracke
Associate
Berlin