Profile
Thomas Dünchheim is a shareholder in the Public Law practice group and focuses in infrastructure (particularly transport and energy), defense, health, state modernization, and foreign trade. He has more than twenty years of experience in public law, particularly in procurement law, subsidy law, municipal, environmental, and construction law, as well as gambling law. He advises federal, state, and local government agencies and companies, as well as private companies and investment banks. His clients include private and public infrastructure operators, state-owned companies, and banks, which he regularly advises on complex regulatory and administrative law issues and on digitization projects.
Thomas Dünchheim has been recommended for many years in leading legal directories for state aid law, public commercial law, environmental and planning law, and subsidy law. Legal 500 recommends him as leading partners for public commercial law.
Before joining Greenberg Traurig, Thomas Dünchheim was a partner at Hogan Lovells in Dusseldorf. In addition, he served as full-time mayor of the city of Monheim am Rhein for over ten years. In this role, he was responsible for numerous strategic projects in the areas of administrative modernization, digitalization, and infrastructure development. Since 2016, he also holds an honorary professorship in constitutional and public law as well as public commercial law at EBS University for Business and Law in Wiesbaden.
Concentrations
- Public commercial law
- Infrastructure, transport, and energy
- Regulatory
- Investment banks
- Digitalization and administrative modernization
- Gambling
Capabilities
Recognition & Leadership
- JUVE, recommended: State aid law, public commercial law, transport sector
- The Legal 500, “Leading partner” in Germany: Commercial Administrative Law, recommended for planning and environmental law, state aid law
- Chambers & Partner, Public Law, Band 4
- Deputy Chairman of the Society for Legal Policy of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
- University of Speyer, Research Seminar on Road Law
- University of Bonn, Research Seminar on Water Law,
- Federal Expert Commission on Infrastructure, Transport and Logistics, Economic Council of the CDU e.V.
Credentials
- Honorary professorship, EBS University for Business and Law, Wiesbaden/Oestrich-Winkel, since 2016
- Ph.D., University of Cologne, 2002
- Second Legal State Exam, Dusseldorf, 1999
- First Legal State Exam, Cologne, 1994
- Public Administration (FH), Wuppertal, 1991
- Germany
- German
- English