FABIAN WINTERS, LL.M.
Fabian Winters is a lawyer and a specialist lawyer for procurement law. He primarily advises public contract awarders on preparing and issuing open invitations to tender to acquire construction, delivery and general services. He also represents the public sector in review procedures before procurement supervisory committees, procurement senates of the German Higher Regional Court and other review bodies. Additionally, he advises tenderers on tender preparation and enforcement of their rights.
Alongside his legal work, Fabian Winters regularly publishes specialist articles on topics related to procurement law.
Finally, he regularly gives talks about procurement law at seminars and in-house training sessions.
Languages: German, English
- 2016 Received licence to practise as specialist lawyer for procurement law
- 2013 Joined Lexton in Berlin
- 2012 Lawyer at Knauthe in Berlin
- 2012 Legal clerk in procurement law department at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in Berlin
- 2011 Legal clerk at Müller-Wrede & Partner for procurement law in Berlin
- 2011 Legal clerk for the Berlin procurement supervisory committee
- 2010–2012 Traineeship in Berlin
- 2009–2010 Studied to earn Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the University of Dundee
- 2003–2009 Law studies at the University of Potsdam and the Free University of Berlin
- 2001–2003 Vocational training to become an industrial clerk at Siemens AG headquarters in Munich and London
Advising a university hospital in southwestern Germany on issuing an open invitation to tender in connection with general hospital building renovations
Advising a public contract awarder from southwestern Germany on the procurement of several hundred passenger vehicles for newly equipping the on-site fleet
Advising a municipal hospital group in northwestern Germany on carrying out a negotiation process to select a general planner for constructing a new building
Advising several public contract awarders on revising internal procurement guidelines
Advising a university hospital in northeast Germany on carrying out and overseeing a Europe-wide negotiation process for energy procurement/generation
Advising a public contract awarder in the gambling sector on a Europe-wide invitation to tender for the procurement of IT services (hardware, software and maintenance and training services)
Advising various university hospitals and municipal clinics on the procurement of various medical products for above- and under-limit areas (including endoscopy equipment, MRT, RDG etc.)
Advising two public contract awarders on a Europe-wide open invitation to tender for procuring food by means of framework agreements
Advising a company in the field of regional rail transport on the tenderer side during various invitations to tender
Representing a sector-specific contract awarder during a review procedure regarding an IT-related invitation to tender
Representing an engineering firm during a review procedure regarding a planning contract for underground station reconstruction
Representing a municipal hospital group before a review body pursuant to Section 21 VOB/A during a procedure to procure a construction contract