Profile: Hans-Joachim Priess

Trade and Customs

Biography: Trade & Customs

Dr Hans-Joachim Priess has been a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer since 1994 and works in the Berlin office. He is a member of our antitrust, competition and trade practice group and environment, planning and regulatory practice group. He specialises in customs and trade law, including WTO dispute settlement proceedings and German, European and international public procurement law. He is head of the firm's public procurement group, which comprises more than 50 lawyers in 11 offices across Europe. Hans-Joachim has advised governments, trade associations and multinational companies and has represented them in litigation, in particular before the European courts. Hans-Joachim has also represented many clients before the German procurement review bodies and has effected a number of fundamental rulings. He was a member of a federal ministry of economics' commission of experts tasked with the reform of German public procurement law and is a member of the board of the external trade law centre at the University of Münster.

Hans-Joachim was born in Bremerhaven, Germany, in 1958. He completed his legal education at the Universities of Kiel (Dr iur, 1988) and Freiburg, both in Germany, the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, and at the Indiana University School of Law (LLM, 1984) and Harvard Law School. He worked in the Brussels office from 1990 to 2000. He publishes widely on general EU, trade and procurement law.

He is the author of Handbuch des europäischen Vergaberechts (3rd edition, 2005), joint editor and author of Beck'scher Kommentar zur VOB/A (2001), WTO Handbuch (2003), and Beck'sches Formularbuch Vergaberecht (2004) and co-editor of the legal periodical Neue Zeitschrift für Bau- und Vergaberecht.

Hans-Joachim joined the firm in 1991. He speaks German, English and French.