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Marlene Kottmann
Associate

Marlene Kottmann

Rechtsanwältin

Berlin, Germany
Languages
  • German
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish

Marlene Kottmann advises companies and the public sector on all matters of public law, public law compliance and sustainability (ESG). Her focus is in the Energy & Climate Change sector group, where she advises clients on compliance with German and European regulations and on government funding programmes for decarbonisation and the green transformation of the economy. Marlene Kottmann has wide-ranging expertise in administrative law, environmental and climate change law, public construction law and public funding law.

Marlene Kottmann joined CMS in 2024.

Memberships & Roles

  • Deutscher Juristinnenbund
  • Freiburger Rechtshistorische Gesellschaft e.V.
  • sdw Alumni e.V.

Lectures list

  • Emissionsrechtehandel und Zertifikate, Grüner wird's nicht, Online, 14.10.2025

Education

  • 2023: Second state examination in law
  • 2021 - 2023: Legal traineeship at Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court, including placements at the European Commission, the Council of Europe and a law firm specialising in administrative and constitutional law
  • From 2018: Doctoral studies on the history of international criminal law at the University of Freiburg with research stays in Paris, funded by the Foundation of German Business (sdw)
  • 2018: First state examination in law
  • 2017 - 2021: Graduate research assistant at the Institute for Legal History and Comparative Legal History of the University of Freiburg
  • 2011 - 2017: Studied law in Freiburg (University of Freiburg) and Santiago de Chile (University of Chile) with additional training in "European, International and Foreign Law", with a scholarship from the Foundation of German Business (sdw)
Practice Areas
Climate Change, EEG and the Environment ESG Sustainability Law and ESG Compliance Real Estate Public Commercial Law & Procurement Environmental Law Subsidies and State Aid Foreign Trade and Sanctions Infrastructure, Project Developments and Public Construction Law Public Litigation Administrative and Constitutional Law
sectors
Energy & Climate Change

Insights by Marlene

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Legal Update Germany

Clean Industrial Deal: EU Plan for Decarbonisation

30 Jul 2025 8 min read
Legal Update Germany

Stimulus in subsidy law under the new federal government

03 Jul 2025 7 min read
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