Dr Ortrud Kracht has been specialising in advising companies in the crop protection industry, fertiliser industry and chemical industry for over 20 years. She advises them on regulatory issues and contract law, in particular on the drafting of consortium and licence agreements. Clients appreciate her in-depth industry knowledge and expertise as well as her special understanding of corporate practice, which results from her many years of practical work in the legal departments of leading companies in the chemical and plant protection industries.

Dr Kracht engages in the discussion of relevant legal issues and the further development of her legal practice areas, both through her membership in association committees and through lectures at German and international expert conferences.

Law studies in Bonn, Kiel and Lausanne

Doctorate in Bonn

Research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

Lawyer at the law firm Hengeler - today Hengeler Müller - in Düsseldorf with a focus on commercial and contract law

Member of the legal department of Metallgesellschaft AG with a focus on international commercial and contract law and the legal support of investment projects

Member of the legal department of Bayer AG, specialising in international commercial and contract law, company purchase law and crop protection law

Member of the legal department of Bayer CropScience AG with a focus on international commercial and contract law, company purchase law and crop protection law

Since 2005: Lawyer in her own law firm

Eintritt in die Sozietät Köhler & Klett (heute okl & partner), Büro Köln, 2018

State liability for exceeding processing deadlines - Comment on the judgment of the LG Braunschweig (Braunschweig Regional Court) of 03/09/2020 - 7 O 1096/18
in: Zeitschrift für Stoffrecht (StoffR) 02/2021 S. 79 – 81.

Legal aspects of the preparation, approval and implementation of the application of plant protection products in forests by plane, using the example of Saxony-Anhalt,
Forest Owners Association Saxony-Anhalt. e.V., 19.01.22

Is there a right of action of environmental NGOs in plant protection matters?
62nd German Plant Protection Conference, 22.09.2021

Approval of plant protection products,
Autumn Seminar of the Greenkeeper Association GMVD Regional District West, 02.11.2020

Associations' right to sue and environmental remedies law,,
VCI, 29.10.2019

Presentation on Art. 36(3) of Regulation 1107/2009 in the context of biodiversity issues,
61st Plant Protection Conference 2018,13.09.2018

Lawyer
Dr Ortrud Kracht

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