Andreas Knaul is an attorney-at-law practicing in Berlin since 1990. He is also a partner and the head of the Law and Tax Practice in Russia, Rödl & Partner. His practice areas include Corporate Law and M&A as well as Competition Law with a special focus on the Russian market. In previous positions, Mr. Knaul served as professor for European Law at the Riga Graduate School of Law, Latvia, as well as a civil servant at the European Commission (Brussels), the OECD (Paris) and at the Federal Ministry of Economics (Bonn). He holds a master of Laws from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. on European and International Private Law from the University of Trier. Andreas Knaul has also studied at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, Paris.