History

Born in Würzburg, grew up in Giengen/Brenz on the Swabian Alb.

Exchange year in Minnesota/USA; Abitur/graduate degree at Werkgymnasium Heidenheim, then advanced training as a commercial specialist at Peek & Cloppenburg KG Düsseldorf (degree in retail sales; award from the Chamber of Industry and Commerce).

Then Raphael studied law at the universities of Heidelberg (focus on tax law) and Madrid (European law) on a European scholarship. Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt/Main with stations with the Federal Foreign Office (European Staff and Brexit) and the German Embassy in Lima. 

Internships and scientific activities in the German Bundestag, SGP Schneider Geiwitz (Frankfurt/Main) and the Joint Drug Investigation Group (Customs Investigation & State Criminal Police Office).

Co-founder and in-house lawyer, Swarm Market Research AI GmbH.

Founder and CEO at Laboraid GmbH.

Attorney with own law firm since 2019.

Background

At sixteen, Raphael was one of the youngest holders of a glider license in federal history at the time. He started his professional career during school as a part-time employee at Kaufland at the cash register and then decided on a commercial apprenticeship in retail. In order to finance various trips abroad, he sometimes worked for several months at McDonald’s. Raphael then studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Madrid, where he received a scholarship.

In Heidelberg, Raphael worked for a leading executive search consultancy in life science for about four years, initially as a student trainee and later as a freelance personnel and management consultant.

After completing the first state examination in law in Heidelberg, Raphael did an internship for several months with Michael Roth, Member of the Bundestag and Minister of State in the Federal Foreign Office.

His legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main took him to the E-staff of the Foreign Office and to the German Embassy in Lima, Peru. During this time he worked as a research assistant at SGP Schneider Geiwitz, a leading German law firm in insolvency law, and freelance for a Berlin lawyer who in turn advises startups in particular.

He has been working for a Frankfurt hedge fund since it was founded and advises in particular on compliance issues and corporate law backgrounds.

Until mid-2020, Raphael was also (late) co-founder of an international startup and, as managing director and in-house lawyer, headed the expansion of a data-based forecasting tool using artificial intelligence.

Raphael speaks German, English, Spanish and a little French. He has been a member of the SPD and the DLRG for over a decade and has since traveled to more than 70 different countries on five continents.

Internships

We offer highly interesting, flexible and varied activities in the law firm at above-average pay at all times. We expect a high degree of practical understanding, clever minds and an interest in LegalTech.