Peter Zier

Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer), Partner emeritus


Hans-Peter Zier

Dr. Peter Zier has more than 20 years experience in advising on investments and business ventures in Central and Eastern Europe, especially joint ventures, privatisations, corporate acquisitions and all questions of commercial law. The well­-known British online service International Law Office (ILO) awarded him with the "Client Choice Award" 2011 based on the assessments of more than 2,000 in­house lawyers worldwide for his advice in Russia. From 1990 to 1998 Dr. Peter Zier played a decisive role as the responsible partner in establishing the law firm's office in Prague, from 2002 to 2010 he was the Managing Partner of our Moscow office.

Career

  • Legal studies at the universities of Munich, Geneva Switzerland) and at Kings College in London (England)
  • Experience abroad: as a lawyer with major international law firms in London (England) and Los Angeles (USA)
  • Member of the German­British Lawyers' Association
  • With Noerr since 1978
  • Admitted to the Munich Chamber of Lawyers

Publications

  • Interview together with Dr. Schneider for the special issue "Legal services in Germany" of the Russian journal "Corporate lawyer" (Korporativnij Jurist), Issue April 2008
    Investing in Russia, in: Lex Mundi Guide Grundstückssuche jetzt leichter, in: Ost­West­Contact, issue 11, 2005, p. 66
  • Produzieren in Russland. Was bei Greenfield und Brownfield Projekten zu beachten ist (with Ekaterina Evdokimova and Elena Frolovskaya), in: Ost­Ausschuss der Deutschen Wirtschaft (ed.), Deutsch-­Russische Investitionskonferenz 2004, pp. 38 et seq.
  • Das schweizerische Bankgeheimnis und seine Auswirkungen auf die deutsche Wirtschaft, Konstanz 1977