Profile
Claudia Gehricke has been an attorney at ZENK since 2015. She is a partner at our firm and focuses primarily on public construction and planning law as well as public tax law, with specializations in land development contribution law and road construction contribution law. In addition to advising private property owners and project developers, she primarily advises municipalities on the drafting of bylaws and assists them in the settlement of land development and road construction costs in accordance with the relevant regulations governing such contributions.
In addition, grant and funding law, as well as employment and civil service law in the higher education sector, constitute further areas of focus, meaning that her clients include, in particular, professors and university faculty members.
For many years, Ms. Gehricke has possessed particular expertise in immigration law, within which she primarily advises and represents employers, companies, and academic institutions on all matters and at all stages of the skilled worker immigration process.
Skills
Public Law,
Public Building Law,
Municipal Tax Law,
Contribution Law & Fee Law,
Public Service Law & Civil Service Law,
Residence Law and Immigration of Skilled Staff,
Sustainability
About
Claudia Gehricke, born in Berlin in 1986, studied law at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and at the University of Essex in the UK. She completed her legal clerkship at the Kammergericht in Berlin and had previously worked at ZENK’s Berlin office as a trainee attorney. Other stops during her clerkship included the Federal Ministry of Economics and an international business enterprise.
Languages
German, English
Awards
Recognized by Best Lawyers 2027 / Handelsblatt Ranking 2026 “Germany’s Best Lawyers” in the field of Public Law