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Dr. Ulf Wauschkuhn

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Dr. Ulf Wauschkuhn is head of Baker & McKenzie’s Trade & Commerce Practice Group in Germany and Steering Committee member of the Global Trade & Commerce Practice Group. He is recognized as one of Germany’s leading lawyers in distribution law by the JUVE Handbook on German Commercial Law Firms and the Nomos Handbook on Law Firms in Germany, and cited as a notable practitioner in Chambers Global 2015. Dr. Wauschkuhn published two handbooks on buy-sell distribution agreements. Furthermore, he is co-publisher of the German Journal on Distribution Law and the legal commentary on all aspects of distribution law published by the leading German publishing house C.H. Beck.

On December 10, 2020, the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV) published a ministerial draft bill on the implementation of the directive on the sale of goods (Directive (EU) 2019/771) (“Sales of Goods Directive”). The Sales of Goods Directive supersedes and succeeds the directive on the sale of consumer goods (Directive 1999/44/EC), which has been implemented into the German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch; “BGB”) since January 1, 2002.