Charlotte Schäffer

Charlotte Schäffer

Junior Associate

Email   charlotte.schaeffer@kp-partners.de

Phone +49 89 203 120 81

Fax      +49 89 200 301 69

Biography

Charlotte Schäffer is currently getting admitted at one of the most prominent Bavarian Bar Associations, the Munich Bar Association. She completed her legal training in 2024 and joined KP Partners as Junior Associate in January 2025.

With a focus on public procurement and real estate law during her studies and clerkships, she combines in-depth theoretical expertise with diverse practical experience.

Her previous roles include working at a leading international law firm in litigation and regulatory matters, where she supported highstakes mass litigation for an automotive group. She also gained hands-on experience in victim compensation and disability law during an internship at the Bavarian Center for Social Affairs and Family and explored tenancy law in a mid-sized firm. Through her legal clerkship, Charlotte refined her skills in construction law, public prosecution, and administrative law, culminating in her specialisation in procurement and IT law during an elective internship at KP Partners. Charlotte’s precision, research acumen, and comprehensive legal perspective make her an asset to the team.

University Internships

  • Law firm for inheritance and family law
  • Bavarian Center for Social and Family Affairs
  • Major international commercial law firm, Munich branch

Pratice Areas

  • Public Procurement Law
  • IT law
  • Trademark law
  • Civil Law

Education & Bar Admission

Legal clerkship in training at the Nuremberg Regional Court (2. Staatsexamen), 2024

Law degree from University of Regensburg, first state examination (1.Staatsexamen),
2022

Prior Experience

Trainee lawyer Charlotte Schäffer completed an internship at the Bavarian Center for Social and Family Affairs, where she independently handled cases in the area of victim compensation under the supervision of the responsible department head. As part of this work, she gained an insight into the law on disabled persons and asylum law.

She was a member of the team responsible for representing a leading international automotive group in mass proceedings concerning warranty and compensation claims.

After her first state examination, she took up a part-time position at a law firm in Regensburg, where she assisted in various proceedings such as:

  • Several building permit proceedings
  • Removal orders
  • Obligation to tolerate the passage of a sewage pipe on a neighboring property
  • Registration of a right to walk and drive through a property
  • Right to information from municipality regarding purchase price of property
  • Reimbursement of the development costs of the company commissioned with the development
  • Binding effect of a special-purpose association resolution on legal successors
    Unfair competition: founding a new company after insolvency/ advertising with old certificates/ advertising emails to old customer base/ rights of market participants under the UWG
  • Unfair competition: founding a new company after insolvency/ advertising with old certificates/ advertising emails to old customer base/ rights of market participants under the UWG
  • Subsidy fraud case
  • State liability due to incorrect implementation of an EU directive
  • Compensation for damages case
  • Trademark law: trademark registration vs. identical description of skills
  • Contract interpretation
  • Right to read the heat meters of an energy supply company

Languages

  • German
  • English

Publications