Dirk fo­cu­ses on mer­gers and ac­qui­si­ti­ons, cor­po­ra­te law and com­mer­cial law. His prac­ti­ce in the­se fiel­ds ran­ges from tran­sac­tio­n­al work to li­ti­ga­ti­on. Be­fo­re joi­ning LE­BUHN & PUCH­TA, Dirk worked for three ye­ars in one of Germany’s lea­ding firms, ac­ting for lar­ge and lis­ted com­pa­nies. Dirk has de­ve­lo­ped sub­stan­ti­al ex­pe­ri­ence in mat­ters of mer­gers and ac­qui­si­ti­ons and struc­tu­ral chan­ges in the cor­po­ra­te set-up of com­pa­nies.  Dirk ad­vi­ses cli­ents – in­clu­ding clas­si­fi­ca­ti­on so­cie­ties– in the ma­ri­ti­me sec­tor and other in­dus­try sec­tors on their day-to-day cor­po­ra­te is­su­es and on their con­trac­tu­al mat­ters. Dirk has very si­gni­fi­cant li­ti­ga­ti­on ex­pe­ri­ence in­clu­ding with dif­fi­cult, high­ly char­ged ca­ses such as tho­se in­vol­ving share­hol­der dis­pu­tes, and al­so acts as ar­bi­tra­tor. Dirk has a re­pu­ta­ti­on for being a com­mit­ted and te­n­acious li­ti­ga­tor. He al­so has sub­stan­ti­al ex­pe­ri­ence of ma­ri­ti­me la­bour law. He re­gu­lar­ly speaks at con­fe­ren­ces and gi­ves se­mi­nars on cur­rent is­su­es.