PROFILE
Christiane Hoffbauer advises in the areas of commercial, civil and distribution law. Her focus is on the drafting and negotiation of contracts in the areas of purchasing and sales, distribution, cooperation and investment projects. She also regularly represents clients in out-of-court and in-court disputes. Christiane Hoffbauer also offers expertise in logistics law. She advises national and international companies, primarily from the mechanical and plant engineering, industry, trade and mobility sectors.
She has been a lawyer at orka since 2007 and became a partner in 2018. Christiane studied law in Bonn and Geneva and received her doctorate from the University of Cologne in 2010. She worked as a visiting lawyer in Philadelphia, USA, and as a Secondary in a DAX company in Düsseldorf.
She is a lecturer at the Academy of the German Association of Materials Management, Purchasing and Logistics (BME) in the field of purchasing law and regularly holds training courses.
FIELDS OF LAW
INDUSTRIES
INTERNATIONAL
REFERENCES
- “Often recommended lawyer” (distribution, trade and logistics), JUVE Handbook 2024/2025
- “professionally very competent and unagitated”, client, JUVE Handbook 2023/2024
- Recommended lawyer for trade, distribution and logistics, Legal 500 Germany 2025
NEWSLETTER (IN GERMAN)
Newsletter: Die neue Wasserstoff-Strategie der Bundesregierung – Welche Maßnahmen jetzt die Industrie erwarten
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PUBLICATIONS (IN GERMAN)
Weitnauer (Hrsg.): Beck’sches Formularbuch IT-Recht, Werbe- und Vermarktungsverträge (seit der 4. Auflage – gemeinsam mit Dr. Ulla Kelp), C.H. Beck, 6. Aufl. 2025
- Der Rahmenvertrag in der Lieferbeziehung, Logos, 2010
- Vollstreckung eines ausländischen Schiedsspruchs bei Rechtsnachfolge, IHR 2008, S. 9 ff. – gemeinsam mit Dr. Verena Ventsch