Gernot Schmitt-Gaedke works in the fields of IP, trade mark and competition law. If you meet him at his desk after 8 o’clock in the evening, he is often “digging” into a complex procedural problem in trade mark or competition law in order to make his clients – mainly larger SMEs and listed companies – happy. In such situations, his wealth of litigation experience, which he was able to gather in the early years of his career in many small but equally important cases helps him – an aspect that distinguishes him from colleagues who have socialised exclusively in large mandates. Gernot Schmitt-Gaedke has been honoured several times, including by the Handelsblatt (“Germany’s best lawyers”).