Menz, Maximilian

Senior Associate at WACH UND MECKES. Experienced in advising and representing German and international clients in complex commercial disputes, in particular in relation to German and international M&A transactions, in disputes in the technology sector as well as in corporate and financial disputes.

• Senior Associate at WACH UND MECKES since November 2020.
• Associate at SKW Schwarz Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater Wirtschaftsprüfer Partnerschaft mbB, Media Law and Digital Business Group, Munich, Germany, October 2016 to December 2017.
• Research Assistant at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Chair for Intellectual Property Law, 2016.
• Legal clerk (Rechtsreferendar) at Noerr Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB, Media Law Group, Munich, Germany, January to March 2015.

Maximilian Menz sits as an arbitrator in institutional arbitration. His practice includes: - Arbitrator in arbitration proceedings under DIS arbitration rules (commercial dispute).

• Bareiss/Menz, VoD-Rechte im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Produzenten, Sendern und Vertrieben, in: Zwischen Gestern und Morgen – Medien im Wandel, Festschrift für Mathias Schwarz zum 65. Geburtstag (Video-on-Demand rights in the tension between producers, broadcasters and distributors, in: Between yesterday and tomorrow – Media in transition, Commemorative publication for Mathias Schwarz´s 65th birthday), 2017.
• Heyde/Menz, Mic check 1, 2 – CJEU it’s on you!, Lexology, 2 June 2017.
• Heyde/Menz, Samplingstreit kommt vor den EuGH (Sampling dispute brought to the ECJ), Lexology, 13 June 2017.
• Menz/Sobottka, Linking and making available documents for downloading – can you benefit from the quotation right under German Copyright Law?, Lexology, 3 August 2017.

• DIS
• DIS40
• Young ICCA
• ASA below 40

Maximilian Menz is actively involved in Moot Courts and regularly sits as an arbitrator at the All Munich Rounds. He is also in charge of the firm's legal tech department.