Gregor Franßen, EMLE

About Gregor Franßen

His clients include medium-sized private and municipal companies, trade associations and government agencies. Gregor Franßen regularly gives specialist lectures, publishes articles and is a member of various expert committees. The ‘JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms’ rates Gregor Franßen as a ‘renowned’ (2020/2021) and ‘highly respected’ lawyer in environmental and planning law and as a ‘highly competent environmental lawyer’ (2017/2018), who is ‘often recommended’ (2020/2021) and ranks among the ‘leading advisors in environmental and planning law (up to 50 years of age)’ (since 2019/2020).

Career and areas of practise

Gregor Franßen studied law at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Cologne. He then took part in the Programme for Law and Economics at the universities of Hamburg, Ghent and Madrid (Complutense) and graduated with distinction in 1999 with a European Master of Law and Economics (EMLE, Madrid).

 He completed his legal training by the end of 2001, including placements in Beijing and Ulan Bator. Gregor Franßen has been admitted to the bar since 2002 and specialises in environmental law. Until the end of 2018, he was a senior partner at a commercial law firm in Essen, and until the end of 2021, he was a senior partner at a commercial law firm in Düsseldorf. He has been a partner at FRANSSEN NUSSER Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB since 2022.

Gregor Franßen advises and litigates in environmental law and environmental economics before administrative, civil and constitutional courts. He provides comprehensive advice to private and municipal companies and associations on all waste management activities and types of facilities. In the field of water management, he supports water associations and municipal companies; in the field of mining law, he advises companies and authorities; in the field of nuclear law, he advises federal and state authorities; and in the field of public procurement law, he primarily advises public contracting authorities. He regularly speaks at relevant specialist and training events, is involved in several trade associations and publishes regularly in commentaries and specialist journals.

Main areas of practice

Environment
Circular economy
Compliance & ESG

Teaching activities, publications and memberships

• 2021-2022 Lecturer at the FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics & Management gGmbH for ‘Fundamentals & Development in Waste Management / Waste Law’ in the business administration programme with a focus on ‘Waste Management’
• 2011–2016 Lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen on ‘European Environmental Legislation’ in the master's programme ‘Environmental Toxicology’
• Since 2023 Member of the Advisory Board of the UMK Environmental Association Central German Competence Network for Circular Economy e.V.
• Since 2018 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ‘Berlin Conference on Mineral Waste and By-products’
• Since 2012 Co-editor of ‘Circular Economy, Waste and Soil Protection Law (KrW-/Abf- u. BodSchR) – KrW-/AbfG, AbfVerbrG, EG-AbfVerbrVO, BBodSchG Commentary’
• 2008–2018 Co-editor of the ‘Yearbook on Freedom of Information and Information Law’
  Chairman of the RE-4 Technical Committee on Legal Issues relating to Recycling Management and Soil Protection of the German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA)
• Member of the German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA) – Member of the Main Committee on Law and member of the Technical Committee on Landfills
• Member of the Working Committee on Technology and Environment of the Federal Association for Recycling Building Materials (BRB)
• Member of the Society for Environmental Law (GFU)
• Member of the Engineering Association for Contaminated Site Management and Land Recycling (ITVA)