Biography: Public Procurement

Dr Ute Jasper has been a lawyer at the law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek since 1991 and a partner since 1994. Dr Jasper heads the Public Sector Department. She almost exclusively advises the public sector. With the department, she has designed and implemented numerous projects for large cities, counties and municipalities, such as large procurement procedures and investor competitions, but also strategic partnerships and PPPs in the fields of public transport, culture, sports, water, energy, construction, hospitals and waste disposal as well as inter-municipal cooperation and outsourcing to municipal companies. She is the author of numerous publications on privatisation and restructuring of public functions and is a frequent speaker at conferences on public infrastructure. According to Handelsblatt, JUVE and "Best Lawyers," Dr Jasper ranks among the best German lawyers in Public Law and was selected as one of the 100 Top Women in German Business by Handelsblatt in 2010.