Rechtsanwalt (German Lawyer) – Partner

Dr. Jochen Eichler

„excellent, highly competent, absolutely recommendable" - JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2021/2022
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Jochen Eichler is a partner in the Berlin office of Eichler Kern Klein and founded our law firm in 2012. He specializes in European and German public procurement law. He advises companies and public clients comprehensively on all issues relating to public procurement law. One focus of his work is the design, implementation and support of procurement procedures, privatization projects and PPP projects. He has particular experience in the areas of infrastructure and transportation, building construction and civil engineering, energy, research, pharmaceuticals, supply and disposal and healthcare. He regularly represents clients before public procurement review bodies and courts.

Jochen Eichler is listed as a leading public procurement lawyer by Who's Who Legal and is regularly included in the rankings of JUVE and Best Lawyers. WirtschaftsWoche and Handelsblatt list him as one of the most renowned lawyers in Germany.

Jochen Eichler studied at the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate under Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. h.c. Franz Jürgen Säcker. Franz Jürgen Säcker. From 2006 to 2009, he worked as a lawyer for the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in Berlin and London. There he was a member of the public commercial law (EPR) and antitrust law (ACT) practice groups. He then worked in the Berlin office of the international law firm K&L Gates LLP until the end of 2011.

Publications

Commentaries:

  • Münchener Kommentar zum Europäischen und Deutschen Wettbewerbsrecht (Kartellrecht)
    Band 3: Beihilfenrecht und Vergaberecht (Commentary on state aid and public procurement law), ed. by Prof Dr Dr Dr hc Franz Jürgen Säcker, first edition 2011, commentary on public procurement topics prior to sections 97 et seqq. of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition
  • BeckOK Vergaberecht, Kommentierung zu § 106 GWB
  • VERIS-VOB/A-Online-Kommentar (online commentary on German Construction Contract Procedures), commentary on sec. 9 VOB/A and sec. 9 EG VOB/A

Articles:

  • Flemish Gentrification - Protecting the less Affluent Local Population under European Law and the ECJ Judgment in Libert a.o., EStAL 2014, 88
  • Auf die richtige Form kommt es an – Erfolgreiches Qualitätsmanagement in der Angebotsbearbeitung bei komplexen Vergabeverfahren, insbesondere bei PPP-Projekten, Bauingenieur 5-2012, article on how to participate successfully in public procurement procedures (together with mit F. Hausmann, A. Hofmann, S. Weissenböck)
  • Rechtsweg für die Überprüfung von Rabattverträgen, NVwZ 2009, 27, article on review questions of public procurement procedures (together with Dr Franz Josef Hölzl)
  • SPNV – Bieter mit In-House-Verträgen: You can't have it both (rail)ways!, VergabeR 2008, 751, article on public procurement issues regarding in-house-contracts (together with Dr Hans-Joachim Prieß)
  • Flexibel, planbar, ideal? – zum Einsatz von Rahmenvereinbarungen öffentlicher Auftraggeber im IT-Bereich, move moderne verwaltung 2008, 38, article on framework agreements (together with Dr Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann)

Dissertation:

  • Vertragliche Dritthaftung – Eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Frage der Dritthaftung von sogenannten Experten und anderen Auskunftspersonen im Rahmen des § 311 Abs. 3 BGB (contractual liability of outside parties under the German Civil Code), published by Peter Lang 2007