Practice Experience
Claus Wecker's principal areas of practice include general corporate and commercial law, Mergers & Acquisitions, including private equity, as well as international construction contracts and project financings.

Mr. Wecker has extensive experience both in Germany and internationally, mainly in the USA, Asia and Middle East, as well as in various industries, especially in infrastructure projects.

Following college and mandatory military service with the German Army, Mr. Wecker worked as a foreign associate in New York with another international law firm.

From 1979 to 1998, Mr. Wecker was counsel to Thyssen Handelsun-ion AG, the holding company of all trading and service activities in-cluding international project management and project finance of the Thyssen Group. As general counsel of Thyssen Telecom AG, he helped to initiate and expand Thyssen’s then broad telecommunications activities.

In autumn of 1998, Mr. Wecker joined as partner White & Case (then called Feddersen Laule Ewerwahn Scherzberg Finkelnburg Clemm) and helped to set up the new Düsseldorf office which is now staffed with 30 attorneys.

Bars & Courts
Rechtsanwalt, Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf, 2003
Rechtsanwalt, Regional Court of Düsseldorf, 1977

Education
First State Exam, Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelms University Bonn, 1974

Publications
Books
Co-author, Project Finance – Applications, Risk Management, Structuring of the Contracts, Balance Sheet Treatment (Projektfinanzierung – Anwendungsmöglichkeiten, Risikomanagement, Vertragsgestaltung, bilanzielle Behandlung). Stuttgart, 1999 (with Alexander Reuter)

Languages
German, English

Citizenship
Germany