PETER MICHAEL PROBST,
M.B.L.-HSG

Peter Michael Probst is a lawyer, a specialist lawyer for procurement law and a specialist lawyer for administrative law. He advises on all matters pertaining to German and European procurement law, budgetary law, subsidy law, planning law and building law. In the area of procurement law, he advises public contract awarders on issuing open invitations to tender across Germany or the EU as well as issuing construction and service licences. He provides comprehensive support to tenderers with creating tenders and possible negotiations as well as in connection with matters of legal protection (complaints, review procedures). In the field of subsidy law, he advises grant authorities as well as recipients on the legally compliant execution and processing of funding projects.

Mr Probst possesses a particularly high level of experience in the areas of construction, supply and service contracts as well as in the speciality areas of sector ordinance (SektVO) and the regulation for defence and safety (VSVgV). Moreover, he is also extremely well-versed in issuing licences and organising in-house transactions. He specialises in advising hospitals and healthcare service providers. In 2016, Mr Probst received the DVNW Award from the German Public Procurement Network (DVNW).

Peter Michael Probst is a contributor to the Vergaberecht (leading journal of procurement law), author of the category law in the journal industrieBAU (architecture, technology and management) and regularly author in the vergabeblog of the DNWV (German procurement law network). He holds ongoing lectures and regularly leads specialist seminars and workshops on topics related to procurement law.

Languages: German, English

 
CV
  • 2017 Received licence to practise as a specialist lawyer for procurement law
  • 2016 Received DVNW Award from the German Public Procurement Network
  • 2010 Became founding partner of Lexton law firm
  • 2007 Received licence to practise as a specialist lawyer for administrative law
  • 2003–2009 Lawyer/partner at Beiten Burkhardt Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
  • 2002–2003 Earned Executive Master of European and International Business Law (M.B.L.-HSG) from University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
  • 2002 Secondment at KPMG Legal, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2000–2003 Lecturer for Private and Public Economic Law at the Hamburg long-distance university of applied sciences (HFH), Hamburg, Germany
  • 1999–2003 Lawyer at KPMG Law
  • 1999 Trainee at the Clifford Chance international corporate law firm, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • 1994 Trainee at Herzfeld & Rubin corporate law firm, NYC, USA
  • 1992–1997 University of Marburg and the University of Bonn (passed second state legal exam in 1999)
  • 1972 Born in Braunschweig, Germany
REFERENCES

Advising a university hospital in central Germany on carrying out and overseeing a Europe-wide negotiation process on redesigning energy generation

Advising a university hospital in the German state of Baden-Württemberg on issuing an open invitation to tender in connection with general building renovations

Advising a municipal hospital group in Lower Saxony on carrying out a negotiation process to select a general planner in connection with a planned new construction

Advising a technical university from northern Germany regarding the expansion of its IT server infrastructure

Advising a municipal clinic group in Baden-Württemberg on carrying out a negotiation process to implement an integrative solution for an image archive and communication system (PACS)

Advising a public law institution in Berlin on a contracting measure in connection with the procurement of data medium network services

Advising various university hospitals and municipal clinics in connection with the procurement of various medical products (including endoscopy equipment, MRT, RDG etc.)

Advising a healthcare institution from southern Germany on the procurement of several classes of passenger vehicles for newly equipping the on-site fleet

Advising several municipal clinic groups from northern and central Germany on invitations to tender in connection with the procurement of food for patients and employees

Advising a company in the field of regional rail transport on the tenderer side for various invitations to tender and review procedures

Representing a Berlin-based healthcare company on the tenderer side for various review procedures under procurement law

Advising several public contract awarders regularly on revising internal procurement guidelines