Career

provincial high court Frankfurt am Main (1967 - 1975), business administration studies (1973 - 1976); assistant chair for trade and commercial law, law sociology and civil law, Giessen (1974 - 1976), federal economics ministry (1977 - 1987); German chancellery, department business and financial policy including housing and real estate policy, construction policy, zoning and urban planning (1987 - 1995), federal ministry for zoning, construction policy and urban planning, ministerial director responsible for German housing policy: real estate, construction policy, low income housing construction, tenancy law (1995 - 1998), State Secretary for Economics in the Economics Ministry State of Brandenburg (1999 - 2004), admitted to barin Bonn in Bonn (1998 - 1999), December 2004 further admission to bar in Berlin, Andrea Versteyl Attorneys at law, environmental and planning law, at HFK Attorneys at Law in Berlin since the beginning of 2007.

Areas of Practice

• Property law
• PPP projects
• Public commercial law/administrative commercial law

Expertise

• Years of experience in federal ministries as well as in the economic administration of a federal state
• Planning and carrying out the establishment of company branches
• Measures for business promotion
• Executing large procurement projects
• Conversion of industrial and military areas to commercial uses
• Privatization and merging of state companies

Publications/Lecture Activities

• 1980 - 1999 Instructor at the University of Giessen and Marburg
• Numerous publications and presentations about shareholder law, housing and real estate policies and law, economic and industrial policies, economic promotion, policies for mid-sized companies, energy policy

Memberships

• 1996 to present, many positions on supervisory boards, advisory boards, administrative boards, company board of trustees and other institutions including
• Board member, German Federation for Urban Planning and Zoning (Deutscher Verband für Städtebau und Raumordnung e.V., Berlin)
• Administrative board member, Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Forschung auf dem Gebiet des Siedlungs- und Wohnungswesens e.V., Muenster