Patrick Rode
Senior Legal Counsel
Main tasks
- Legal analysis of German litigation funding, recovery, and antitrust cases
- Managing European recovery cases
- Client relations with German-speaking European countries
Previous work experience
- Partner/Attorney at Law (“Rechtsanwalt”) with MainLegalTax – Windorfer Rode Rechtsanwälte, focused on Corporate and Commercial Law, especially Litigation and Disputes, Dusseldorf, Germany (2021-2022)
- Associate/Attorney at Law (“Rechtsanwalt”) with Latham & Watkins, Litigation & Trial department, specialized in German and multinational disputes, Dusseldorf, Germany (2019-2021)
- Experience working in the Litigation & Trial Departments of several other national and international law firms, such as Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Noerr and Greenfort
Education
- Bar Exam (“2. Juristische Staatsprüfung”) with distinction, Higher Regional Court of Dusseldorf, Germany
- State Exam (“1. Juristische Staatsprüfung”) with distinction, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany
Additional information
- Recognised by Best Lawyers as a „Ones to Watch 2023” in Litigation
- Experienced in complex corporate and commercial litigation, individual proceedings as well as mass action and collective redress proceedings, mainly on the defendants’ side
- Languages: German, English, Italian, Spanish