Thomas Dunchheim is a Shareholder in the Public Law Group in Germany and focuses on infrastructure (particularly transport and energy), defense, health, state modernization, and foreign trade. He has more than twenty years of experience in public law, particularly in procurement law, subsidy law, municipal, environmental, and construction law, as well as gambling law. He advises federal, state, and local government agencies and companies, as well as private companies and investment banks. His clients include private and public infrastructure operators, state-owned companies, and banks, which he regularly advises on complex regulatory and administrative law issues and on digitization projects.
Thomas also regularly advises U.S. and international companies on EU and UK product safety, labelling, and chemicals compliance requirements across a range of industries, including footwear, textiles/biocides, personal care, medtech, veterinary products, and chemicals. His work includes comprehensive reviews of product compliance under EU chemicals and product safety laws, including substance limits, safety regulations, labelling requirements for products and packaging, EPR and waste management obligations, EU Declarations of Conformity, instruction manuals, and related regulatory requirements. Thomas has been recommended for many years in leading legal directories for state aid law, public commercial law, environmental and planning law, and subsidy law. Legal 500 recommends him among leading partners for public commercial law.
Before joining Greenberg Traurig, Thomas was a partner at Hogan Lovells in Dusseldorf. In addition, he served as full-time mayor of the city of Monheim am Rhein for over ten years. In this role, he was responsible for numerous strategic projects in the areas of administrative modernization, digitalization, and infrastructure development. Since 2016, he also holds an honorary professorship in constitutional and public law as well as public commercial law at EBS University for Business and Law in Wiesbaden.
Concentrations
•Public commercial law
•Infrastructure, transport, and energy
•Regulatory
•Investment banks
•Digitalization and administrative modernization
•Gambling
Recognition & Leadership
Awards & Accolades
•JUVE, recommended: State aid law, public commercial law, transport sector
•The Legal 500, “Leading Partners” in Germany: Commercial Administrative Law, recommended for planning and environmental law, state aid law
•The Legal 500 Germany, “Leading Partners” for Commercial Administrative Law, 2026
•Chambers & Partner, Public Law, Band 4
