Covington's Thomas Heymann Named Among Top IT Lawyers in Germany

FRANKFURT—WirtschaftsWoche, Germany’s leading business weekly, has named Thomas Heymann, a partner in Covington’s Frankfurt office, to its list of Top IT Lawyers in Germany.

Mr. Heymann is regarded as one of Germany’s leading technology transactions and private equity lawyers, with decades of experience in IT and outsourcing law. He is the past president of the German Computer Law Society and the International Federation of Computer Law Societies (IFCLA).

The WirtschaftsWoche ranking of Top IT Lawyers in Germany is compiled by a jury that includes in-house lawyers from leading German companies, such as Robert Bosch, ZF Friedrichshafen, RWE, and Thyssenkrupp. Led by the Handelsblatt Research Institute and Professor Bert Rürup, the selection process identified 29 lawyers from more than 500 lawyers from across 74 law firms.