Lea Franken
Areas of practice
Lea Franken provides public business law advice, with a special emphasis on environmental, planning, nuclear and radiation protection law.
Vita
Lea Franken studied law at Ruhr University in Bochum (Germany) from 2013 to 2018, with an emphasis on public, environmental and planning law (focus area “Economic administration, environment and infrastructure”). Following her first state law exam, she carried out her legal training at the Regional Court of Düsseldorf, which inter alia included a training period at the Administrative Court of Aachen (both Germany).
After passing her second state law exam in 2021, Lea Franken joined Luther’s Environment/Planning/Regulatory (EPR) team. Her clients include renowned public and private businesses, whom she advises on all environmental and planning law issues, in particular in complex infrastructure projects.
Associate
Lea Franken
Associate
Dusseldorf
Christiane Frye
Counsel
Essen
Jakob Gauly
Associate
Dusseldorf
Nina Hahnke
Associate
Essen
Sarah Hossenfelder
Senior Associate
Essen
Ekkehard Hübel
Counsel
Hamburg
Christoph Kolb
Associate
Leipzig
Nils Kramer
Senior Associate
Essen
Dr Piotr Kwiatkowski, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Essen
Dr Mathias Mailänder
Counsel
Hamburg
Maria Marinez
Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Marius Merfeld
Associate
Dusseldorf
Mee Foo Moh
Of Counsel
Singapore
Theresa Oesch
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Dominika Peter
Associate
Berlin
Anna-Sophia Riebeling
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Nurolhaq Rostamzada
Senior Associate
Cologne
Dr Frank Seidel
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Vera Wechsler, LL.M. (Tulane)
Associate
Dusseldorf
Anja Wechsler
Associate
Hamburg
Magnus Wessels
Associate
Essen
Prof. Dr Herbert Willems
Partner
Essen
Christoph Grünenthal, MLE
Associate
Berlin
Dr Joanna Rupa-Sträßer, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Essen
Lisa Marie Siewer, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Cologne
Kevin Oestreich
Senior Consultant
Essen
Susanne Winkler, LL.M.
Associate
Stuttgart
Mathar Ahmed Bajwa, LL.M.
Associate
Cologne
Jan Lachhein
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Susanne Burkert-Vavilova
Counsel
Essen
Dr Florian Hensel, LL.M.
Associate
Munich
Leif Dustin Schneider
Counsel
Ho Chi Minh City
Sabrina Behbehani
Associate
Munich
Andreas Mally
Counsel
Leipzig
Oliver Glasen-Nitschke
Associate
Essen
Isabel Hoyer
Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Katharina Foede
Associate
Berlin
Prof. Dr Johannes Beermann
Of Counsel
Berlin
Leonie Herwarth von Bittenfeld, LL.B., M.A.
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Annkathrin Egerer-Tratt
Senior Associate
Stuttgart
Frank Gutsche
Partner
Stuttgart
Dr Gerd-Ulrich Kapteina
Partner
Essen
Michael Kunkel, LL.M.
Partner
Cologne
Patrick Gocht
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Doreen König
Partner
Berlin
Elena Recklin
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Nina Eckardt
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Charlotte Jodocy
Senior Associate
Essen
Annkatrin Merzig
Senior Associate
Essen
Matthias Mehlwitz, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Essen
Iris Glönkler
Partner
Stuttgart
Henrik Fischer
Associate
Leipzig
Matthias Wagner
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dianusch Nazari
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Katharina Stefanie Franke
Senior Associate
Essen
Kati Gütschow
Associate
Dusseldorf
Morten Steimann
Associate
Essen
Ngoc Nhu Nguyen
Associate
Leipzig
Arne Stumpe
Associate
Hamburg
Sarah Peuser
Associate
Leipzig
Jens Kaiser
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Andrea Heim
Senior Associate
Stuttgart
Lisa Jennifer Schmölz
Counsel
Munich
Bernhard Burkert, LL.M. (Stellenbosch)
Counsel
Berlin
Ruth-Maria Thomsen
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Rut Herten-Koch, M.A.
Partner
Berlin
Alexander F. Liebing, LL.M.
Counsel
Leipzig
Dr Henning Holz, LL.M.
Counsel
Hanover
Pauline Müller
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Max H. Becker
Associate
Essen
Dr Stephen Lampert
Counsel
Munich
Dr Clara Schulze Velmede
Associate
Leipzig
Dr Oliver Maaz
Partner, Principal Consultant
Cologne
Caroline Ackermann
Counsel
Munich
Tobias Jedermann
Associate
Leipzig
Dr Benjamin Effler
Associate
Berlin
Marco-Marcel Niebuhr
Senior Associate
Hanover
Jenny Schindler
Senior Associate
Munich
Isabel Dorothee Ruhnke, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Berlin
Dennis Gerdes
Senior Consultant
Hamburg
Dr Sabrina Desens
Partner
Leipzig
Dr Gernot-Rüdiger Engel
Partner
Hamburg
Dr Martin Fleckenstein
Partner
Berlin
Dr Bela Jansen
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Stefan Kobes
Partner
Berlin
Prof. Dr Tobias Leidinger
Partner
Dusseldorf
Dr Barbara Schmidt
Partner
Leipzig
Dr Zacharias-Alexis Schneider, LL.B., LL.M.
Partner
Hanover
Ulrich Siegemund
Of Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Cornelia Yzer
Of Counsel
Berlin
Prof. Christian Zanner
Partner
Berlin
Julian Günniker
Essen
Dr Richard Happ
Partner
Hamburg
Dr Stefan Mager
Partner
Essen
Henner-Matthias Puppel
Partner
Essen
Nina Klünker, LL.M. (KCL)
Associate
Berlin
Tobias Osseforth, Mag. rer. publ.
Partner
Munich
Marielle Lorraine
Associate
Munich
Dr Stefan Altenschmidt, LL.M. (Nottingham)
Partner
Dusseldorf
Nicole Bittlingmayer
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Astrid Seehafer, M.Sc.
Partner
Berlin
Dr Thomas Gohrke
Partner
Hanover, Leipzig
Darja Amelcenko, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Berlin
Dr Andreas Vath
Partner
Munich
Lisa Niesen
Senior Associate
Essen
Frederike Peters
Senior Consultant
Berlin
Dr David von Saucken, MJur (Oxon)
Partner
Berlin, London
Jens Bock
Partner
Berlin
Achim Meier
Partner
Essen
Christoph Schnoor
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Benedict Tobias Tiemann
Hamburg
Georg Scherpf
Partner
Hamburg
Lars Bollensen
Partner
Hamburg
Paul Herter
Senior Associate
Stuttgart
Dr Melanie Verstege
Counsel
Essen
Hannah-Laura Schütte
Senior Associate
Stuttgart, Dusseldorf
Julian Pöhler
Counsel
Hamburg
Katharina Klenk-Wernitzki, Dipl. Reg.-Wiss
Partner
Berlin, Cologne
Simon Wickel
Associate
Dusseldorf
Elisa Röhr
Associate
Dusseldorf
Dr Frederic Tewes
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Johannes Kugler
Associate
Munich
Oliver Köhler
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Lukas Erdmann
Associate
Berlin
Niklas Roth
Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Michael Bormann
Partner
Dusseldorf
Marie Hoster, LL.B.
Associate
Essen, Dusseldorf
Ahmed Zoughbi
Associate
Dusseldorf