Cornelius Kleinlein

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Kornelius Kleinlein is a lawyer and notary in Berlin. He has advised the public sector on public-private partnerships (PPP or PPP for the English acronym ). He was present in the media when he spoke in 2005 about his work in advising the SPD parliamentary group on the PPP acceleration law .

Career

Kleinlein works in the office of the law firm Raue LLP in the Kollhoff Tower on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.

He studied at the universities of Munich, Würzburg and Berlin and worked as a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Mannheim .

He has published numerous articles on telecommunications law , general administrative law , the work of law firms in the field of public affairs and the fulfillment of public tasks by private individuals.

He worked as a partner for the British law firm Linklaters until 2005 and switched to the law firm Hogan & Hartson Raue in 2005 . In addition to his work as a lawyer, he was responsible for management as an administrative partner. Kleinlein has been a partner of the Raue LLP law firm since May 1, 2010 .

Advisory activity

In December 2002, the SPD parliamentary group formed a working group on the subject of PPP, which set itself the goal of preparing a law that would remove existing obstacles to the wider application of public-private partnerships. In order to identify these obstacles, the working group commissioned various market participants and consultancy firms that are active in the field of PPPs to come up with proposals for removing existing obstacles. Among them were, for example, PricewaterhouseCoopers , KPMG , the Federal Association of German Banks , the Association of German Mortgage Banks, the Federal Association of the German Construction Industry and Kornelius Kleinlein - at that time still working for Linklaters and head of a sub-working group that dealt specifically with budget law.

In an article for ZEIT, Kleinlein reported on his work for the SPD parliamentary group. When asked who paid Kleinlein to work in the working group, he replied: “Nobody. There was no money for that. ”But of course he and his law firm developed know-how by working on the legislative project, which is valuable for the subsequent acquisition of contracts.

The MP Michael Bürsch , who headed the PPP working group established by the SPD, described Kleinlein in 2005 as “extraordinarily committed and competent”.

Toll bridge of the truck toll system on the A 81

The start of the truck toll system , the first major German PPP project, was bumpy. In the dispute with the consortium Toll Collect, the Federal Ministry of Transport commissioned Linklaters with the mandate against Toll Collect. Kleinlein rejects the assertion made in the book "The Purchased State" that Kleinlein received this contract because of his free work in the said legislative procedure. “There was no such connection. Linklaters was hired - in addition to another law firm - because this law firm had national and international experience with PPP. ”Kleinlein also disagreed with the claim that the PPP acceleration law was drawn up by the consultants. “The individual working groups of the consultants have only formulated key data for the proposed changes to the law. The draft law was formulated by the responsible ministries. ”In another interview, Kleinlein also emphasized:“ We don't make laws ourselves ”; what he and his law firm did was legal advice.

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Literature and Sources

Some of the information in the article relates to the following book (pp. 130 ff. And 157):

Sascha Adamek and Kim Otto: The bought state: How corporate representatives in German ministries write their own laws. 1st edition. Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-03977-1 .

  1. ↑ a b Marcus Rohwetter: "Your word becomes law" . In: ZEIT ONLINE, October 6, 2005.
  2. ↑ The Shadow Democrats . In: NEON.de, January 26, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Little one, Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century