Legal intervention within hours on the fairground.
Your fair calendar is your legal calendar: from the protective brief to the stand raid, from counterfeit-product intervention to post-fair follow-up — a team that moves within hours at German trade fairs.
An integrated legal framework for Trade Fair Law
Trade fairs are the showcase into which years of effort are compressed into a few days — and the place where competitors make their most aggressive legal moves. A preliminary injunction can shut down your stand and your products can be seized; once the fair is over, remedy is impossible.
We carry out preventive preparation in line with your fair calendar (protective brief, rights analyses), intervene within hours during the fair, and bring post-fair disputes to a conclusion. At German trade fairs, we work on site with our Berlin team.
Services We Offer in This Focus Area
In the Trade Fair Law focus area, we combine the relevant legal disciplines into a single work plan.
Protective Brief (Schutzschrift)
Preparing the protective brief before the fair and filing it in the central register (ZSSR) through our German partner firm; a pre-emptive defence against surprise injunctions.
Explore →Emergency Injunction Response
Objecting to the enforcement of an injunction against a stand or products and lifting it against security — the court steps taken by our German partner firm, with our standby cover and coordination running for the whole fair.
Explore →Pre-Exhibition Rights Analysis
Screening the trademark, patent and design risks of the products to be exhibited before the fair.
Explore →Anti-Counterfeiting
Detection, cease-and-desist and injunction proceedings against competitors exhibiting counterfeit products at the fair.
Explore →Trade Fair Contracts
Review of organiser, stand and agency contracts with an eye to your participation risk.
Explore →Post-Fair Follow-Up
Concluding disputes that began at the fair through litigation, arbitration and recognition-and-enforcement.
Explore →A team that works to the fair calendar and stands on the ground
In trade fair law, the issue is not being right, but getting a result before the fair ends. With our team — which knows German fair practice firsthand and documents protective brief and injunction processes in its publications as well — we secure your participation in advance.
- First-hand experience of German trade fair and court practice
- An established methodology for preparing protective briefs
- The capacity to intervene within hours during the fair
- Integrated work with the intellectual property and competition teams
- Bilingual Turkish-German crisis communication
Related Practice Areas
The legal disciplines this focus area draws on.
Related Services
Our services most often engaged in this focus area — together with their scope.
Interim Injunction & Provisional Legal Protection
Some losses of rights will not wait for a case to conclude. Through provisional legal protection remedies such as interim injunctions, provisional attachment, and the preservation of evidence, we prevent the dissipation of assets, irreparable harm, and the loss of evidence at the very outset of the dispute.
Explore →Litigation
In commercial and civil litigation, we provide holistic defence — from case strategy to pleadings, from evidence management to hearing representation, all the way through the appeal and cassation stages. We are also at your side in the recognition and enforcement of cross-border judgments.
Explore →Recognition & Enforcement
Foreign court judgments and arbitral awards do not automatically take effect in Türkiye. Through recognition and enforcement actions, we transform your decision into a valid, enforceable judgment under Turkish law; we run the entire process from a single point of contact, through to collection.
Explore →Legal Opinions & Advisory Memoranda
Board resolutions, major contracts and regulatory questions should be managed not through verbal advice but through a reasoned written opinion. We prepare legal opinions and advisory memoranda focused on your specific question, with an actionable conclusions section.
Explore →Counterparty & Reputation Due Diligence
A new distributor, supplier, partner, or customer is only as trustworthy as its commercial history. Through registry, litigation, enforcement, and reputation screening, we reveal the counterparty's true profile before you sign, grounding your decision in data.
Explore →Related Sectors
The sectors this focus area touches often.
Automotive
Contract, compliance, investment, and dispute advisory across the automotive value chain for OEMs, suppliers, distributors, and investors.
Explore →Iron & Steel
Advisory services on industrial production, raw material supply, energy, exports, ESG, occupational safety, and commercial disputes.
Explore →Technology
Legal advisory on licensing, SaaS, data, intellectual property, investment, scaling, compliance, and product law for technology companies.
Explore →Logistics
Advisory on contracts, liability and disputes in transport, warehousing, customs, CMR and cross-border delivery processes.
Explore →Related Regional Desks
Our cross-border and specialist desks that run this focus area.
Track Record: Selected Matters
Anonymised examples of our work in this focus area, including the approach, process and outcome.
Pre-fair protective brief and stand protection
Establishing a protective brief and a stand-day response plan against the risk of a competitor's injunction ahead of a German trade fair.
Review the matter →Same-day response to an injunction attempt at a trade fair
Managing an injunction attempt that arose during a trade fair — through on-site intervention, court contact and product adjustment — without the stand being shut down.
Review the matter →Closing a post-fair cease-and-desist notice through settlement
Closing an infringement cease-and-desist notice received after a trade fair through settlement — by managing the undertaking risk, narrowing its scope and adjusting production.
Review the matter →Team in This Focus Area
Trade Fair Law and meet our experienced multilingual team.
Related Publications
Trade Fair Law — latest insights and guides.
Request the official record and the underlying order, ask for products outside its scope to be set aside, and immediately call in legal representation; here time is measured in hours. For trade fairs in Germany, we have a ready protocol for on-site intervention.
It submits your defence to the court in advance against a possible preliminary-injunction request, making it harder for the injunction to be granted without a hearing. Before the trade-fair season, we file the protective brief for at-risk products with the central register.
The trademark/design registration status in the target country, a conflict search against competitors' registrations, and a freedom-to-operate (FTO) analysis of the products to be exhibited are the minimum set. With our checklist, you arrive at the fair legally prepared.
If a competitor seeks an ex parte preliminary injunction against you at a trade fair, the court also sees the defence you filed in advance before it rules; this substantially reduces the risk of your stand being shut down without warning. It is part of our routine pre-fair preparation.
Do not resist the enforcement, keep the official records, and contact us immediately; we file the objection and the application to lift the measure against security within hours. Throughout the fair, our Germany team intervenes on site.
A rights analysis of the products to be exhibited, filing a protective brief, reviewing the stand contract, and a crisis communication plan — ideally a few weeks before the fair. We provide a preparation package tied to your fair schedule.
We can document the situation through evidence preservation and pursue warning and interim injunction processes within the same fair; after the fair, we continue enforcement with litigation and customs measures. Speed is decisive in the effective protection of the right.
Let's build a legal strategy in the Trade Fair Law focus area.
Let's assess your needs together with the relevant practice areas, sectors and regional desks.