Matthias Dankemeyer
lawyer
Specialist lawyer
Administrative law
+49 751 8880–78
+49 751 8880–33
dankemeyer@wagner-rae.de
Fields of expertise
Urban development planning notably includes formal and content-related requirements in the process of drawing up the plans, the procedure, the possibilities for participation and legal protection, as well as the implementation and safeguarding of the planning. Sectoral planning law covers the planning of spatially-relevant projects such as roads and motorways.
Planning law particularly involves conflicts concerning pollution control laws in urban development planning (such as noise associated with sports, leisure activities, industry and traffic), environmental considerations (especially nature conservation issues) in specialist planning (such as in planning permission for roads or airports), as well as the relationship between construction planning and trade laws (such as the licensing law legitimacy of entertainment facilities).
We advise private individuals, businesses and communities on the entire planning process.
Construction is becoming increasing complicated. Stricter regulations, increasing usage requirements and a multitude of technical possibilities make construction projects more extensive and unmanageable. It is therefore all the more important to obtain timely competent legal counsel. This is obtained from specialised specialist lawyers, who are familiar with all areas of construction and adeptly support their clients from the beginning to the end of a project.
Construction law and all other legal fields that are important in the realisation of construction projects have for decades counted among the core advisory services of our firm. Issues related to construction law often hover on the boundary between private and public law, which is why you will find specialists in both legal fields with us.
We reliably assist you in all project phases, from development, planning and implementation up to marketing of the real estate. With comprehensive legal and technical expertise, we assert your claims and rebut unfounded claims by third parties. Our experts in construction law support you not only in individual matters — such as in approval, procurement and contractual matters — but also develop comprehensive strategies on request for your legal and business success.
Our key services in construction law
- Assistance in development plan procedures and in the acquisition of planning permission
- Drafting and reviewing of construction and architect contracts
- Legal advice throughout construction
- Assessment or enforcement of warranty claims and claims for the correction of faults
- Defence or enforcement of price reduction claims and claims for damages
- Settlement of compensation disputes including amendments
- Guiding of independent proceedings for taking of evidence as well as all other legal disputes
Communities collect contributions to property owners to finance the development of a property and thus the provision of a functioning infrastructure. We offer advice in this context to communities on the collection of development contributions.
We also act on behalf of property owners in the form of:
- reviewing the legality of demands for contributions in relation to the existence of a claim for payment as well as the amount of the claim.
- Representation in legal disputes
We are your competent point of contact for the drafting of contracts relating to the transfer of property — be this by way of sale or due to endowment or hereditary succession.
We take care of the necessary property encumbrances such as land charges, mortgages, usufruct orders or housing law orders. Even public access rights and rights of way, pipeline rights and all further safeguards than can be entered into the land register of the property concerned are prepared by our firm and notarised or authenticated if necessary. In the case of disputes arising from rights to property, we are committed to asserting your claims.
Our key services in land law
- Real estate contracts of sale
- Transfers of property
- Easements
- Mortgages
- Power of sale
Our firm is specialised in all matters concerning real estate that may arise. Regardless of the need for legal counsel in construction, acquisition, sale, renting or leasing of real estate, or for legal counsel in connection with brokerage activity in the area of real estate management, we give you comprehensive advice. Due to the possibility of acting in a legal representative or notarial capacity for you, we can help you in the area of real estate law in every respect. Our firm therefore supports and executes the division of property in condominiums or divisions resulting from new boundary surveys.
Our firm also assists you in matters of foreclosure proceedings and enforcement in real estate, in the commissioning of land charges and mortgages, as well as in all matters of safeguards of rights to real estate.
Pollution control law is one of the core legal fields of environmental protection. Pollution includes actions on people, animals and plants, soil, water, the earth’s atmosphere, and culture, as well as other airborne contaminants that act on material goods, noise, vibrations, light, heat, radiation and similar environmental impacts.
Pollution control law has the objective of reducing potential harmful influences on humans and their environment through hazard control and preventive measures.
Our key services in pollution control law
- Support in the context of pollution control law-related approval procedures
- Representation in regulatory and judicial proceedings
- Advice and representation for pollution control law-related effects on third parties such as neighbours
- Representation of neighbours in defence against pollution control law-related effects, such as noise, smell, exhaust fumes, radiation, etc.
Insolvency law involves substantive and procedural legal territory in regard to the rights of creditors in the case of an inability to pay on the part of a debtor.
We support insolvency applications and restructuring talks with banks, advise and represent in cases of appeals against insolvency, bring lodgements of claims to the table, and pursue the enforcement of claims for segregation and preferential payment. We also represent managing directors and shareholders against claims by creditors and/or the insolvency administrator, but also represent creditors in such cases.
Environmental law covers several cross-sectional areas of public law. This particularly includes pollution control law, water law, recycling and waste law, nature conservation law and soil protection law.
Pollution control law primarily concerns protection against air and noise pollution in installations subject to licensing and other structures, especially traffic routes. In water law, the key issues are measures for water protection and the arrangement of water law-related uses. Recycling and waste law is defined by complex prevention, recovery and disposal. Soil protection law, which serves to safeguard and restore soil functions, intersects with many other areas of law such as water law (contamination of bodies of water), waste law (sites of toxic waste deposits), and nature conservation law (landscape conservation, agricultural land use).
We offer advice to private individuals, businesses and communities both on pre-planned uses and in the case of judicial enforcement.
Administrative law regulates the legal relationships of the state with its citizens.
Our firm advises private individuals, businesses and communities on matters of defence and enforcement of administrative acts, ordinances and bylaws. We represent our clients in proceedings before the administrative courts and compulsorily enforce administrative decisions.
Our key services in administrative law
- Building permit proceedings
- Planning approval proceedings
- Demolition orders
- Urban planning legislation
- Licensing law
- Pollution control law
- Waste law (recycling and refuse law)
- Water law
Water law regulations are found both in the Federal Water Act and in the state water laws.
Due to the proximity of our firm to Lake Constance, we have extensive expertise concerning the Lake Constance region and represent you both extrajudicially and before the courts.
Our key services in water law
- Use of water bodies
- Issues of ownership of bodies of water and waterside properties
- Management of water bodies
Work and services contract law has been a key area of specialisation of our firm for many years.
We offer you advice in all areas of private and public construction law. Alongside advisory services, we also handle proceedings for taking of evidence as well as all other legal disputes.
Our key services in work and services contract law
- Drafting and reviewing of construction and architect contracts
- Assessment or enforcement of warranty claims and claims for the correction of faults
- Defence or enforcement of claims for abatement and damages
- Settlement of compensation disputes
The concept of business law is not uniformly defined. It nonetheless covers the entirety of standards that restrict and guide self-employment in industry, commerce, craft trades, agriculture, transport and liberal professions.
We advise and represent you both extrajudicially and in court proceedings in all matters considered here. We especially attempt to develop solutions prior to litigation, so that disputes do not arise. If these have nonetheless already arisen, we also represent you before the authorities to achieve the best possible outcome for you.
Commercial administrative law primarily covers the duties and issues of national and European economic administration (such as hazard control, promotion of economic development, anti-trust monitoring, economic governance), their organisation (European authorities, state administration and self-governance), instruments of action (requirements and prohibitions, subsidies, cooperative administrative action, award of public contracts, economic activity by public authorities, especially communities), and legal issues concerning privatisation.
Notable among these are trade law (such as handicraft law and licensing law), as well as the right to infrastructure-related service provision and its regulation (energy, telecommunication, transport, supply), with reference to environmental and planning law, pollution control law and infrastructure planning.
We offer advice to private individuals, businesses and communities on this broad legal field.
Civil law governs the legal relationships between private individuals and businesses. Regulations on civil law are notably found in the German Civil Code (BGB). Various special regulations also exist, such as in the German Commercial Code.
We enforce your claims out of court and represent you in judicial proceedings, to obtain a so-called title (such as a ruling). In cases of foreclosure, we help you to successfully enforce legally established claims.
Our key services in civil law
- Right to impose contractual and legal obligations, especially general contract law, sales law and work and services contract law
- Right to claim for compensation in rights violations arising from unlawful action (in the case of damage by third parties)
- Right to the return of assets (unjustified enrichment, claims for surrender of ownership, etc.)
- Claims for the removal or omission of damages (such as in the case of defamation or neighbour law)
Professional background
- Studied law at the Universities of Freiburg
- State Examination in Law, 2013 in Freiburg
- Assistant to lecturer at the University Freiburg (i. Breisgau)
- Scientific assistant at the Institute for German and foreign Civil procedure law,
Department 1, University Freiburg (i. Beisgau) and subsequently at Regensburg University for private law, German, European and International procedural law, international private law as well as out-of-court dispute resolution - Legal internship from 2017–2019 in Ravensburg and Dublin
- Second State Examination in Law, 2019 in Ravensburg
- Lawyer in Ravensburg since 2019
Offices and memberships
- Member of the Ravensburg Bar Association, r.a.
Matthias Dankemeyer
lawyer
Specialist lawyer
Administrative law
+49 751 8880–78
+49 751 8880–33
dankemeyer@wagner-rae.de