Cyntia Rochelmeyer has been a lawyer since 2013 and a specialist lawyer for tenancy and residential property law since 2021. She advises our clients on real estate law – in particular, tenancy and residential property law. Her focus is on advising and representing landlords and developers in all areas – from the acquisition to the marketing of the property.
Before joining LOH Rechtsanwälte, she worked as an independent lawyer in the Ruhr area for five years and then in a law firm specializing in tenancy law in Berlin for three years. She studied in Trier and Lisbon.
Cyntia Rochelmeyer is a member of the ARGE Mietrecht und Immobilien in the German Bar Association.
Dagmar Merz joined LOH Rechtsanwälte as a consulting attorney (of counsel) in July 2023.
She served as a judge from 1984 until her retirement in January 2023. After working in the civil courts and at the Berlin Administrative Court, she was assigned to the Federal Administrative Court as a research assistant for two years in 1995. In 1997, she was appointed as a judge to the Berlin Higher Administrative Court; since July 2005, she has worked at the Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court. In 2009, Dagmar Merz was promoted to presiding judge at the Higher Administrative Court and headed the Second Senate of the Higher Administrative Court, which is responsible, inter alia, for regional planning, construction planning, and building regulations law. She was also Vice President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court from 2014 to January 2023.
has been an attorney at LOH Rechtsanwälte since 2022. She advises and represents our clients in labor law and contract law.
Prior to practicing, she studied law in Frankfurt/Main. She completed her legal training in Frankfurt/Main and Berlin.
Roksana Backonja is a member of the German Women Lawyers Association (djb).
Attorney Christian Gammelin was admitted to the bar in 2018 and joined LOH Rechtsanwälte in 2023. He provides advice, in particular, on every aspect of private building and architectural law, real estate law, public procurement law and tenancy law, as well as on the drafting and preparation of documents for notaries public. Mr. Gammelin also regularly acts as a substitute notary public and passed the qualifying examination for notaries public in August 2022.
Mr. Gammelin acts for all of the parties involved in construction, in particular for investors, project developers, planners, builders, and construction companies. A special focus of his work consists in providing comprehensive legal advice during construction and representation when it comes to litigation.
Before joining LOH Rechtsanwälte, he worked for the attorneys at law KNH Rechtsanwälte for five years, after completing his studies at the University of Potsdam and his legal clerkship in Berlin.
Dr. René Weißflog
The focus of his legal work is on labor and service contract law. His work involves the counseling and representation of managing directors, C-level officers, senior executives, employees, and works councils, as well as of employers. Dr. Weißflog has had extensive experience in the field of collective labor law, which serves him well during his regular engagements as an advisor during the implementation of complex working hours systems in hospitals. Moreover, he has acquired specialist expertise regarding the laws governing corporate pension schemes.
As he is a civil-law notary public, Dr. Weißflog covers the full spectrum of notarial services, from the simple certification of signatures to the formation of companies and the notarial authentication of corporate and real estate transaction deeds. His primary focus is on real estate and corporate law. In these areas, he provides legal counsel to clients in addition to his official duties as a civil-law notary public.
Dr. Weißflog regularly gives lectures on all issues of individual and collective labor law ranging from updates on current developments in labor law to training courses lasting several days on the rights and duties of employee and trade union representatives on co-determined supervisory boards.
Before beginning his legal practice, Dr. Weißflog was a research assistant at the Chair of Civil Law, Commercial, Corporate, and Labor Law at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Professor Hartmut Oetker) during his doctoral studies and subsequently at the Institute for German and European Labor and Social Law at the University of Cologne (Professor Ulrich Preis).
Dr. Weißflog volunteers as a member of the parochial church council of his local congregation.
Dr. Reni Maltschew has been an attorney-at-law since 2005 and a partner in our firm since 2010. She counsels and represents our clients in public building law, especially building planning and regional planning law. One of her major fields concerns legal issues relating to the use of wind energy. Moreover, Dr. Maltschew is a counselor for municipal law and emission protection law.
She regularly gives lectures for Bundesverband für Wohnen und Stadtentwicklung e. V. (vhw), at Deutscher Anwaltstag, and in the working group on administrative law of the Berlin Bar Association and is co-editor of the professional journal Landes- und Kommunalverwaltung (LKV).
Before joining LOH Rechtsanwälte, Reni Maltschew completed her legal training in Berlin and Washington, D.C.
Before she received her doctorate, she was a research assistant at the Chair for Civil, Commercial, and Economic Law at the University of Potsdam.
Dr. Reni Maltschew is an honorary judge at the Berlin Lawyers’ Court, deputy chairman of the board of trustees of the Theodor Heuss Foundation, Stuttgart, and member of the board of the Berlin Bar Association.
Dr. Ernesto Loh is the name giver and founding partner of the law firm. He has been working as an attorney since 1974. Dr. Loh advises our clients on individual and collective labor law matters as well as in inheritance law and general civil law. He has had decades of litigation experience. He was a civil-law notary public from 1988 to 2015.
Before founding the firm in 2000, Dr. Loh was a partner at Finkelnburg, Clemm & Partner and, from 1990, at the regional law firms that Finkelnburg, Clemm & Partner had joined. He studied in Berlin, Freiburg, and Hamburg, where he obtained his doctorate in 1972, and worked in the legal department at Stinnes AG before becoming an attorney.
Dr. Ernesto Loh has been a judge at the Berlin Lawyers’ Court since 2005 and presiding judge at the Berlin Lawyers’ Court since 2017.
Mike Große has been an attorney-at-law since 1998 and a specialist for building and architect law since 2008. Since the beginning of his career, he has restricted his counseling activities exclusively to these fields of law. He represents institutional customers of construction services as well as entrepreneurs and property developers in all areas of private building law, public procurement law, and architect law.
Before joining LOH Rechtsanwälte, Mike Große worked for many years in a law firm specializing exclusively in building law and has had many years of experience in counseling public clients during major construction projects. In addition to project organization, his expertise includes, in particular, contract, addenda, and claims management.
Mike Große is a member of Deutscher Baugerichtstag e.V., Deutsche Gesellschaft für Baurecht e.V., and ARGE Baurecht of the German Bar Association.
Outside of his professional activities, Mike Große commits his energies to McDonald’s Charities and supports the Ronald McDonald House Berlin-Wedding. He is a patron of the C/O Berlin Friends e.V.
Armin Dienst ist seit 1997 Rechtsanwalt. Er gründete 2012 den Frankfurter Standort von LOH Rechtsanwälte und ist seither dort Partner. Er berät und vertritt Mandanten im Wirtschaftsrecht, schwerpunktmäßig im Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht, Vertrags- und Energierecht. Er ist ein passionierter Prozessanwalt.
Vor seiner Tätigkeit bei LOH Rechtsanwälte war er Mitgründer und Partner der Rechtsanwaltskanzlei Schulte Riesenkampff in Frankfurt am Main und zuvor Rechtsanwalt bei Feddersen Laule Scherzberg Ohle Hansen Ewerwahn, Finkelnburg & Clemm. Armin Dienst studierte in Göttingen und leistete sein Referendariat in Braunschweig ab. Vor dem Referendariat war er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für deutsches und internationales Berg- und Energierecht an der TU Clausthal und absolvierte danach eine Stage in einer Anwaltskanzlei in Toronto/Ontario.
Ehrenamtlich ist Armin Dienst Mitglied des Beirats der Deutsch-Finnischen Handelskammer.
Dr. Christine Danziger has been an attorney-at-law since 2008 and a partner in our firm since 2020. She counsels and represents our clients in intellectual property and competition law and specializes in copyright and media law. Her primary areas of practice include a special interest in film law. She works for various companies and associations in the media, IT, and environmental protection sectors and others in matters of competition and trademark law. She also takes care of clients in press law and the free speech law in both the field of corporate communications and on behalf of individuals.
In addition to her work as an attorney, Dr. Danziger is a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Before joining LOH Rechtsanwälte, Dr. Christine Danziger worked for many years in an IP boutique before founding her own firm for intellectual property and media law in 2017. Christine Danziger studied law and philosophy in Freiburg and Berlin. She completed her legal training in Berlin and gained experience in a law firm specializing in entertainment law in the USA.
