Legal Notice

Name and legal form:

orka Partnerschaft mit beschränkter Berufshaftung (mbB), registered at Amtsgericht Essen as PR 2898.

Offices in Düsseldorf and Berlin. Addresses and contact details (including e-mail addresses) under “Lawyers” and “Locations”. The registered office of the partnership is Düsseldorf:

Kaistraße 6
40221 Düsseldorf
Deutschland
T +49 211 60035-0
F +49 211 60035-150
▸ info@orka.law

We recommend to send important messages directly to one of our lawyers.

Our Value added tax (VAT) identification number is DE 196001274

List of all partners of the Partnerschaftsgesellschaft:

Dr. Markus Berndt, Dr. Julius Böckmann, Philipp Galaske, Dr. Simon Grosse-Brockhoff, Dr. Anselm Grün, Dr. Marc Henze, Volker Herrmann LL.M., Dr. Esther Herrnstadt, Dr. Christiane Hoffbauer, Dr. Ulla Kelp LL.M., Dr. Gary Klaft, Dr. Kai-Michael König, Boris Körner, Dr. Guido Matthey, Dr. Philipp Mels, Dr. Christian Meyer, Dafni Nikolakudi, Dr. Michael Sitsen, Margarete von Oppen and Dr. Frank Wältermann.

A full list of all lawyers of our lawfirm, partners and associates, can be found under the link Team.

Dr. Robert Orth left the firm on 10.3.2025.

If, in exceptional cases, terms such as “lawyers” are only used in the masculine form, this naturally also refers to the feminine form.

The competent bar associations

Düsseldorf
Rechtsanwaltskammer Düsseldorf
Freiligrathstraße 25
40479 Düsseldorf

Berlin
Rechtsanwaltskammer Berlin
Littenstr. 9
10179 Berlin

Die vorbenannten Kammern (sowie die Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer) sind die zuständigen Stellen für ein außergerichtliches Schlichtungsverfahren (Ombudsmann), Beschwerden können an die genannten Postadressen geschickt werden. Eine Beschreibung des Verfahrens befindet sich auf den angegebenen Webseiten der Kammern.

As long as not stated otherwise, all our lawyers are members of german bar associations and acquired the title “Rechtsanwalt” in Germany.

The professional liability insurance is held with Allianz Versicherungs-AG, 10900 Berlin. The geographical scope of the insurance cover includes activities in the member states of the European Union and thus meets at least the legal requirements of Section 51 of the German Federal Lawyers’ Act (BRAO).

The applicable rules of professional conduct are especially

  • the Federal Act on Attorneys (Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung, BRAO),
  • the Federal Rules on the Profession of the Attorney (BORA, Berufsordnung der Rechtsanwälte),
  • the Federal Rules on Special Qualifications and Titles for Attorneys (Fachanwaltsordnung, FAO),
  • the Federal Act on Lawyers Fees (Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz, RVG),
  • the European Union’s Rules for the exercise of the legal profession.

These and other applicable rules can be consulted on the site of the german federal bar association or the online collection of german legislation provided by the german Federal Ministry of Justice.

The professional law applicable to the notary results from

  • Federal Notarial Code (BNotO),
  • Notarisation Act (BeurkG),
  • Court and Notary Fees Act (GNotKG),
  • Service regulations for notaries (DONot) and
  • Guidelines of the Berlin Chamber of Notaries,
  • Ordinance on the Keeping of Notarial Files and Directories (NotAktVV)

can be found at▸ www.notar.de/der-notar/berufsrecht and from

The competent supervisory authorities for the notary are The President of the Regional Court II, Littenstraße 10, 10179 Berlin, and The President of the Court of Appeal, Elßholzstraße 30-33, 10781 Berlin, and the Senate Department for Justice and Consumer Protection.

Every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information on this website. However, any and all liability which might arise from your use of the information or links contained on the website is excluded. The information on this site is general information and does not constitute legal advice.

Despite careful checking, we cannot accept any liability for linked content, especially not for the content of pages that refer to us.

All rights to the content and design of these pages are held by orka Partnerschaft mbB (© 2006-2021) unless expressly stated or agreed otherwise. Individual pages of this website may be downloaded, temporarily stored and printed for exclusively private or company-internal use.

This legal notice and all issues regarding this website are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Alternative dispute settlement:

We are not willing and not obliged to participare in consumer dispute settlement procedures at consumer arbitration bodies.

Due to a legal requirement, we are obliged to inform you, irrespective of our participation in an alternative dispute resolution procedure, that the European Commission has set up an online dispute resolution (ODR) platform for the out-of-court settlement of consumer disputes. You can find the platform at ▸ https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/.

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