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 lawyer and a German Rechtsanwalt i.R., he has testified as an expert on international law and assisted clients in American and multi­national transactions, litigation, arbitration and mediation.

Clemens Kochinke has a diverse international law practice, into which he ties the experts at BCR in corporate, construction, em­ployment, export control, OFAC and ITAR, white collar, compliance, de­fense litigation as well as other legal fields. With admissions to the DC and German bars -- after law school and training in Washington, London, Heidelberg, Berlin and Malta, -- he assists mostly cor­porations from the United States and German-speaking countries in United States 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 Law Association's law journal on arbitration, and contributes triannually to the major German internet law journal, Kom­munikation & Recht on privacy, communications, data protection and related intellectual property, defamation and litigation issues.

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 ranged 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 recently 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. (Headshots)