Attorney Clemens Kochinke
, of Berliner Corcoran & Rowe LLP in Washington, DC, USA, is a lawyer who
• is admitted in the United States to various courts including
the United States Supreme Court,
• studied law at Heidelberg University, King's College, London,
and George Washington University, Washington, DC, and
• who also assists in German-language matters in English.
As a German-American attorney and an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Rated lawyer, Mr. Kochinke advises on domestic and international issues, frequently in the technology fields and in relations between, or with, governments. As its managing partner from 2014 to 2022, he has practiced with the international law firm of Berliner Corcoran & Rowe LLP since 1984.
Fully qualified as an American and German lawyer, he has testified as an expert on international law and assisted clients in American and multinational matters, often acting as the German Desk at BCR.
Clemens Kochinke's practice is diverse. Into it, he ties BCR's experts in M&A, CFIUS, construction, employment, export control, OFAC and ITAR, white collar and compliance defense litigation as well as other legal fields. With admissions to the DC (1983 - present) and German (1978 - 2022) bars -- after law school and training in Washington, London, Heidelberg, Berlin and Malta, and with the benefit of training with notable mentors such as Monroe Leigh and Ugo Mifsud Bonnici -- he assists many corporations and governments from the United States and German-speaking countries in American legal matters as well as U.S. clients in foreign matters.
Early in his career, Mr. Kochinke practiced in areas now known as international compliance, ranging from anti-corruption and anti-money-laundering to export controls. These are now the focus of two highly regarded departments at his law firm.
Mr. Kochinke provided serial updates on U.S. law to the German American Lawyers Association's law journal and to the major German internet law journal, Kommunikation & Recht on privacy, communications, data protection and related intellectual property, defamation and litigation issues. He serves on the editorial team of the Transatlantic Law Journal.
Two major publishers released his chapters on international negotiations in two books, written from the perspective of German clients doing business in the USA and of American lawyers advising on transactions in Germany. Chapters in earlier books range from computer law to international investment and compliance laws.
Among others, Salon, Slate, and the dominant German daily TV news program Tagesschau interviewed Mr. Kochinke on matters of international law. In July 2014, NPR quoted him in Lowe, Deploying Drones To Get An Overview Of Factory Farms.In 2015, CBS radio stations, newspapers, Agence France Press and others interviewed him on the law of civil drones.
Mr. Kochinke is a member of the editorial team of the Transatlantic Law Journal, published in a cooperation of the German American Lawyers Association in Germany, DAJV, and Beck publishers.
Among his professional and volunteer affiliations and activities, Mr. Kochinke publishes the Embassy Law journal, now 20 years on the internet, and, until recently, Drone Law. Lawyers active in German-American transactions may want to read his reports on current developments American law in German.