Experience

Wolf Spieth has been a partner since 1992 and is based in the Berlin office. He has been managing partner of the firm’s office in the German capital since 2006. From 2002 to 2007, Wolf was head of the Firm´s global environment, planning and regulatory practice group, which comprises more than 120 lawyers in 12 offices.

He specialises in industrial and major technical projects (such as refineries, paper mills, power plants, waste incinerators, nuclear energy), emissions trading and carbon economy, mining activities and large infrastructure developments. Wolf has a wide range of experience in handling important and potentially controversial projects as well as environmentally significant transactions (eg chemical parks, nuclear industry). Furthermore, Wolf represents national and international clients in major administrative law cases. He advises industrial businesses as well as governments.

Wolf was born in Stuttgart in 1958. He completed his legal education at the universities of Tübingen and Freiburg and holds the degree of Doctor of Laws (Dr iur) from the University of Freiburg. First he practised in the firm’s Düsseldorf office and then relocated to Berlin in response to Berlin’s increasing importance as Germany’s capital in respect of developments in environmental and regulatory law. 

Wolf lectures and speaks regularly on various aspects of European and German environmental and regulatory law (eg Beck Online Kommentare Umweltrecht., VwVfG) and is a member of the editorial boards of Carbon & Climate Law Review and the Journal for European Environmental & Planning Law. In various international and national directories he has been continuously recognised as a leading lawyer in the fields of environmental and administrative law.

Qualifications

Rechtsanwalt, Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Languages

German, English

Contact details

wolf.spieth@freshfields.com

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