Dr. Martin Alexander, LLM, is a lawyer and managing partner at the Cologne office. He leads the firm’s Composite Insurance and the Industrial Liability department. He is also responsible for the firm’s international insurance practice together with Bastian Finkel. Dr Martin Alexander is one of the leading product liability experts in Germany and is a recognised specialist in the field of aviation insurance as well as in cases of catastrophes of all kinds that involve a large number of personal injuries. He advises insurers, industrial companies and airlines in complex national and international claims, including at international arbitration tribunals. For example, Dr Martin Alexander is advising the pharmaceutical manufacturer Valsartan on an international product recall due to alleged drug contamination and is defending the company against a large number of claimants. Together with his colleague Dr Rainer Büsken, he also currently represents Lufthansa following the crash of a Germanwings plane in the French Alps.
Dr. Martin Alexander, LL.M.
- Construction Liability
- International
- Crisis Counselling/Response
- Life Science
- Aviation Insurance
- General Liability
- Product Development
- Product Liability and Recalls
- Reiseversicherung
- Environmental Insurance
1995-2000
Law studies, University of Cologne
2001-2004
Doctorate under Prof. Dr. Heinz-Peter Mansel, Institute for Private Domestic Law and Private International Law, University of Cologne
2002-2003
LL.M. studies: European Legal Informatics Study Programme (EULISP),
University of Hannover and University of Glasgow
2003-2005
Legal clerkship in the regional court Cologne district
since 2006
Lawyer at BLD
since 2009
Partner at BLD
since 08/2021
Managing Partner at BLD
Dr. Martin Alexander, LL.M.
Lawyer | Managing Partner | Specialist Insurance Lawyer
Theodor-Heuss-Ring 13-15
50668 Cologne
Tel +49 221 944027-43