Volker Herrmann advises clients on all matters relating to contract law, commercial law, and distribution law. A particular focus of his practice is on advising internationally-operating industrial and trading companies, inter alia, on the legal arrangement of supply and distribution relations, purchasing, quality assurance, as well as on the drawing up of general terms and conditions.

He further represents his clients in disputes both in and out-of-court as well as in national and international arbitration proceedings (inter alia, ad hoc, DIS and ICC) to assert or defend claims on their behalf. His clients include national and international companies, primarily from the automotive, transportation, manufacturing and entertainment sector. In addition, Volker is an experienced legal adviser to the public sector, which he has supported in many cases, particularly, in the implementation of complex and large-volume infrastructure projects.

Volker Herrmann joined Orth Kluth a Salary Partner in 2022. Prior to that, he was Salary Partner at Taylor Wessing from 2017; before that, he worked as a lawyer at Squire Patton Boggs LLP and Beiten Burkhard.

Volker Herrmann studied law at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder and at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth, Great Britain. He passed his second state examination at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg and obtained his LL.M. from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, in 2005.