Dr. Kay Jacobsen, Partner
“Despite a tendency to more and more partners and employees, it is essential that clients are personally served by the lawyer they trust.”
Born 1952 in Hamburg.
Kay qualified as a lawyer in 1982.
Education: University Hamburg. Scientific assistant at the Max-Planck-Institut for Foreign and International Private Law from 1978 to 1981. Doctorate in 1990.
Publications: Main features of the franchise contract law by taking the law of obligations modernisation act into account (Grundzüge des Rechts der Franchiseverträge unter Berücksichtigung der Schuldrechtsmodernisierungsgesetzes, 2002); Reorganisation and Franchising: Common venture – common risk? (Sanierung und Frachising: Gemeinsames Wagnis – gemeinsame Risiko?, 2003); Commercial Agency-Anti Trust Law (Handelsvertreter – Katellrecht, in: Gießler, Praxishandbuch Vertriebsrecht, 2005); Jurisdiction of the labour courts in cases of Franchisees with a lack of economic independence (Zuständigkeit der Arbeitsgerichte in Fällen wirtschaftlicher Unselbstständigkeit von Franchise-Nehmern, Co-Autor Engel 2006); Early risk-detection as a quality feature of franchising (Risiko-Früherkennung als Qualitätsmerkmal in Frachising, Jahrbuch Franchising 2008); The duty of pre-contractual disclosure (Vorvertragliche Aufklärungspflichten, Co-Autor Schäfer 2008). Lectures on different subjects regarding trade law and franchise law.
Memberships: Lawyers Society Hamburg (Hamburgischer Anwaltsverein e.V.), International Franchise Lawyers Association (Ifla), Association of Berlin Merchants and Industrialists (Verband der Berliner Kaufleute und Industriellen e.V., VBKI).
Focus: Corporation Law, Trade Law (Sales Law, particularly Franchise Law, Sales agent and Retailer Law), Copyright Law, Construction Law and Commercial Law.
Foreign languages: English.
