Dr Patrick Mainka
Specialist lawyer for construction and architects’ law
Practice groups
Sector groups
Expertise
- Construction contracts
- Law of architects and engineers
- Real estate law
- Finance and banking law
Patrick advises principals and contractors on contract drafting and contract management as well as on the legal enforcement of claims in the areas of private construction law and architects’ and engineers’ law. Further key practice areas are real estate law and banking and finance law.
Recent work
- Ongoing construction and real estate law advice to various local authorities
- Ongoing construction and architectural law advice in the field of numerous public construction projects for both clients and contractors
- Ongoing construction and architectural law advice to a healthcare group on various construction projects/clinic buildings
- Ongoing construction and architectural law advice in the area of school centres, school modernisation and school expansion and associated interim measures
- Ongoing construction, architectural- and real estate law advice to property development companies
Curriculum vitae
- Training as a bank clerk and subsequent permanent position at Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf, 2007 to 2011
- Studied law at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 2009 to 2014
- Research assistant at the Chair for Civil Law, Commercial and Business Law with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Noack at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 2014 to 2019
- PhD on liability issues in corporate group law, 2015 to 2017
- Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court Düsseldorf, 2017 to 2019
- Lawyer at Kapellmann since 2019
Further qualifications and memberships
- Specialist lawyer for construction and architectural law
- Banker
- Various lecturing activities for public and private clients in the field of private construction law and architectural and engineering law
Publications
Books and book contributions
Annotations on court decisions
2020
Mainka, Kein Nutzungsersatz für Verbraucher bei Widerruf von Kreditverträgen!, Anm. zu EuGH, Urteil vom 04.06.2020 – Rs. C-301/18, IMR 2020, 518
