Volker Hoffmann

Partner

Volker Hoffmann

Partner

Volker Hoffmann

Volker Hoffmann has been an attorney since 2009 and a partner in Hoffmann Liebs’ “Environmental Law” department since 2014. In addition, he is a member of the interdisciplinary practice group “Public Authorities”. For many years, starting with the elective subject during his studies and continuing during his legal clerkship, he has been intensively involved in all areas of classical environmental law, with a particular specialization in soil protection, immission control and waste law. In addition, he advises on questions of general commercial administrative law as well as on public law aspects in corporate and real estate transactions. Hoffmann has published numerous articles, for example in the “Handbuch Altlastensanierung und Flächenmanagement (HdA)”, and is a sought-after speaker at seminars and conferences.

  • Environmental Law, specifically:
  • Soil protection and contaminated sites law
  • Immission control law and major accidents law
  • Waste and waste management law
  • Water legislation
  • General Administrative Law and Public Commercial Law
  • Environmental due diligence and transaction advice
  • HSE operations management and delegation of duties
  • Product Compliance and Product Liability
  • Monument Protection Law
  • Environmental Criminal Law
  • Darling Ingredients Germany Holding GmbH (incl. all site subsidiaries): Ongoing advice on all environmental law issues in connection with the operation of rendering plants.
  • Municipality of Kahl am Main: Advice on contaminated site and landfill law in connection with the remediation and recultivation of a former domestic waste landfill of a municipal special-purpose association, incl. assertion of the obligation to cooperate vis-à-vis other special-purpose association members
  • illycaffè S.p.A.: Consulting on HSE business organization and delegations of duties
  • District of Heinsberg: Legal action against the Federal Republic of Germany as litigation guardian for the NATO Headquarter “Airfield Geilenkirchen” because of compensation claims according to NATO troop statute for PFAS soil and groundwater contamination
  • VARO Energy Tankstorage GmbH: Ongoing advice on all environmental law issues in connection with the operation of large tank storage facilities, in particular immission control and major accident law
  • Since 2009 at Hoffmann Liebs
  • 2005 – 2006 Research assistant in Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, Legal Theory, Information and Computer Science Law of Prof. Dr. Dr. Hilgendorf at the University of Würzburg
  • Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court Dusseldorf
  • Studied law at the University of Jena and at the University of Würzburg
  • One-year student exchange, Southside High School, Elmira, N.Y. USA (scholarship from the Parliamentary Sponsorship Programme), PPP, of the German Bundestag and American Congress)
  • CV PDF-Download
  • Diverse Blogbeiträge unter https://www.hoffmannliebs.de/blog
  • „Rechtliche Unsicherheiten bei abdriftenden Schadstofffahnen im Grundwasser unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Zustandsstörerhaftung“, in: Handbuch Altlastensanierung und Flächenmanagement (HdA), 93. Aktualisierung, November 2022
  • „Rechtliche Unsicherheiten bei der Störerauswahl im Bodenschutzrecht“ in: Handbuch Altlastensanierung und Flächenmanagement (HdA), 91. Aktualisierung, März 2022
  • „Neues zur Haftung des Gesamtrechtsnachfolgers im Bodenschutzrecht“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 12/2017
  • „Altlastenbearbeitung und Insolvenz: Überblick und Praxisbericht“ in: Handbuch Altlastensanierung und Flächenmanagement (HdA), 82. Aktualisierung, Oktober 2017
  • „Erfolgreiche Altlastenbearbeitung mit öffentlich-rechtlichen Verträgen“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 7-8/2017
  • „Die neue 42. BImSchV – Erweiterte Betreiberpflichten und Abgrenzung zur bisherigen Rechtslage“ in: I+E Zeitschrift für Immissionsschutzrecht und Emissionshandel, Ausgabe 2/2017
  • „Neuordnungen im Abfallrecht“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 3/2017
  • „Der angemessene Abstand zu einem Störfallbetrieb“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 10-11/2016
  • „Abfallrecht für Anlagenbetreiber“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 6/2016
  • „Sanierungszielwerte im Lichte der Verhältnismäßigkeit – Lassen sich schutzgutbezogene und risikobasierte Ableitungen wirklich nicht miteinander in Einklang bringen?“ in: Handbuch Altlastensanierung und Flächenmanagement (HdA), 77. Aktualisierung, März 2016
  • „Der Gesetzentwurf der Bundesregierung zur Fracking-Technologie“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 12/2015
  • „Novellierung der 12. BImSchV in Sicht“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 6/2015
  • „Kommunales Flächenrecycling – Mit richtigen Partnern und Verträgen interessengerecht lösen“ in: Behörden Spiegel, Interview, Oktober 2015
  • „Abfallanzeige- und Erlaubnisverordnung – Fluch oder Segen?“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 12/2014
  • „Neue Bundes-AwSV immer noch im Entwurfsstadium“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 9/2014
  • „Die Verhältnismäßigkeit im Bodenschutzrecht“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 7-8/2014
  • „Das Verhältnismäßigkeitsprinzip im deutschen Bodenschutzrecht – Ein Überblick“ in: Handbuch Altlastensanierung und Flächenmanagement (HdA), 71. Aktualisierung, März 2014
  • „Verbindlichere Pflichten für Anlagenbetreiber – IED stärkt BVT“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 9/2013
  • „Wechselwirkungen zwischen stilllegungsbezogenen Pflichten nach Art. 22 IED und Sanierungsverträgen“ in: Handbuch Altlastensanierung und Flächenmanagement (HdA), 69. Aktualisierung, Juni 2013
  • „Es ist vollbracht: Das neue Abfallrecht tritt in Kraft“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 6/2012
  • „Abfallentsorgungsmanagement im Industrie- oder Chemiepark“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 3/2012
  • „Verschärfte Betreiberhaftung für Boden- und Grundwasserverunreinigungen“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 10-11/2011
  • „Dioxin in Futter- und Lebensmitteln“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 3/2011
  • „Neues KrWG recycelt Abfallrecht“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 4-5/2010
  • „Das „Grüne“ im schwarz-gelben Koalitionsvertrag“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 12/2009
  • „EEG-Novelle – Ökostromvergütung neu ausbalanciert“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 9/2008
  • Fast and focused advice.
    Volker Hoffmann: the head of the team, has a lot of experience and always offers practical solutions.
    The Hoffmann Liebs team can cover the entire range of environmental law as well as construction and planning law with great expertise.
    Legal 500 Germany 2024
  • Very quick and competent action.
    The attorney stays on top of us to bring the case to an optimal conclusion in our best interest.
    The Hoffmann Liebs team consistently demonstrates great empathy for the concerns of their clients and their other counsel. The willingness to think out-of-the-box and seek innovative solutions is very high.
    Legal 500 Germany 2023
  • Volker Hoffmann maintains a very human approach to all project participants, conveying at every moment a great sense of security that one is in good hands with him and the firm. His ‘rich experience with complex environmental (damage) and planning cases’ is always helpful. His understanding and empathy, also for the practical requirements of planners and engineers, make his cooperation in project teams very pleasant and enriching. In the end, the success of his legal advice speaks for itself and one wishes to be able to win him permanently as a consultant for all future mandates.
    “Volker Hoffmann heads the Hoffmann Liebs practice, which is characterized by a ‘high level of expertise‘, particularly on soil protection and contaminated site issues.”
    “Based in Düsseldorf, Hoffmann has a ‘wealth of experience with complex environmental (damage) and planning cases.’”
    Legal 500 Germany 2022
  • “‘Lawyer Volker Hoffmann is an absolute expert in environmental law and closely networked with experts, institutions and other market participants in the field of contaminated site management. His willingness to achieve considerable added value for the client, particularly in this area, through detailed work in the preparation of the facts and partly through his own historical research, is impressive‘”.
    ‘Recommended: Volker Hoffmann (Commercial Law: Düsseldorf & Public Law: Environmental and Planning Law)’
    Legal 500 Germany 2021
  • “‘Volker Hoffmann has extraordinarily high level of expertise in environmental law and is always proactive in exchanging information on technical (engineering) issues and thus further optimizing his legal advice.‘”
    ’Recommended: Volker Hoffmann (Commercial Law: Düsseldorf & Public Law: Environmental and Planning Law)
    Legal 500 Germany 2020
  • “Hoffmann Liebs Fritsch & Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB does excellent work in environmental and planung law at a ‘high level.’”
    “One new mandate of Hoffmann is a gravure printing company which is advised on the immission, accident and building regulations appropriate distance of an IED plant to a neighboring sanitary facility.”
    Legal 500 Germany 2018
  • “The ‘short ways and the professional knowledge‘ of the lawyers at Hoffmann Liebs Fritsch & Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB ensure a ‘very high level of efficiency‘. The ‘excellent access to partners‘ is also appreciated.”
    Volker Hoffmann advised client most recently on the distance requirements to an accident facility, on topics of drinking water pollution and immission control issues.”
    Legal 500 Germany 2017
  • Environmental Law, specifically:
  • Soil protection and contaminated sites law
  • Immission control law and major accidents law
  • Waste and waste management law
  • Water legislation
  • General Administrative Law and Public Commercial Law
  • Environmental due diligence and transaction advice
  • HSE operations management and delegation of duties
  • Product Compliance and Product Liability
  • Monument Protection Law
  • Environmental Criminal Law
  • Darling Ingredients Germany Holding GmbH (incl. all site subsidiaries): Ongoing advice on all environmental law issues in connection with the operation of rendering plants.
  • Municipality of Kahl am Main: Advice on contaminated site and landfill law in connection with the remediation and recultivation of a former domestic waste landfill of a municipal special-purpose association, incl. assertion of the obligation to cooperate vis-à-vis other special-purpose association members
  • illycaffè S.p.A.: Consulting on HSE business organization and delegations of duties
  • District of Heinsberg: Legal action against the Federal Republic of Germany as litigation guardian for the NATO Headquarter “Airfield Geilenkirchen” because of compensation claims according to NATO troop statute for PFAS soil and groundwater contamination
  • VARO Energy Tankstorage GmbH: Ongoing advice on all environmental law issues in connection with the operation of large tank storage facilities, in particular immission control and major accident law
  • Since 2009 at Hoffmann Liebs
  • 2005 – 2006 Research assistant in Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, Legal Theory, Information and Computer Science Law of Prof. Dr. Dr. Hilgendorf at the University of Würzburg
  • Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court Dusseldorf
  • Studied law at the University of Jena and at the University of Würzburg
  • One-year student exchange, Southside High School, Elmira, N.Y. USA (scholarship from the Parliamentary Sponsorship Programme), PPP, of the German Bundestag and American Congress)
  • CV PDF-Download
  • Diverse Blogbeiträge unter https://www.hoffmannliebs.de/blog
  • „Rechtliche Unsicherheiten bei abdriftenden Schadstofffahnen im Grundwasser unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Zustandsstörerhaftung“, in: Handbuch Altlastensanierung und Flächenmanagement (HdA), 93. Aktualisierung, November 2022
  • „Rechtliche Unsicherheiten bei der Störerauswahl im Bodenschutzrecht“ in: Handbuch Altlastensanierung und Flächenmanagement (HdA), 91. Aktualisierung, März 2022
  • „Neues zur Haftung des Gesamtrechtsnachfolgers im Bodenschutzrecht“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 12/2017
  • „Altlastenbearbeitung und Insolvenz: Überblick und Praxisbericht“ in: Handbuch Altlastensanierung und Flächenmanagement (HdA), 82. Aktualisierung, Oktober 2017
  • „Erfolgreiche Altlastenbearbeitung mit öffentlich-rechtlichen Verträgen“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 7-8/2017
  • „Die neue 42. BImSchV – Erweiterte Betreiberpflichten und Abgrenzung zur bisherigen Rechtslage“ in: I+E Zeitschrift für Immissionsschutzrecht und Emissionshandel, Ausgabe 2/2017
  • „Neuordnungen im Abfallrecht“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 3/2017
  • „Der angemessene Abstand zu einem Störfallbetrieb“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 10-11/2016
  • „Abfallrecht für Anlagenbetreiber“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 6/2016
  • „Sanierungszielwerte im Lichte der Verhältnismäßigkeit – Lassen sich schutzgutbezogene und risikobasierte Ableitungen wirklich nicht miteinander in Einklang bringen?“ in: Handbuch Altlastensanierung und Flächenmanagement (HdA), 77. Aktualisierung, März 2016
  • „Der Gesetzentwurf der Bundesregierung zur Fracking-Technologie“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 12/2015
  • „Novellierung der 12. BImSchV in Sicht“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 6/2015
  • „Kommunales Flächenrecycling – Mit richtigen Partnern und Verträgen interessengerecht lösen“ in: Behörden Spiegel, Interview, Oktober 2015
  • „Abfallanzeige- und Erlaubnisverordnung – Fluch oder Segen?“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 12/2014
  • „Neue Bundes-AwSV immer noch im Entwurfsstadium“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 9/2014
  • „Die Verhältnismäßigkeit im Bodenschutzrecht“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 7-8/2014
  • „Das Verhältnismäßigkeitsprinzip im deutschen Bodenschutzrecht – Ein Überblick“ in: Handbuch Altlastensanierung und Flächenmanagement (HdA), 71. Aktualisierung, März 2014
  • „Verbindlichere Pflichten für Anlagenbetreiber – IED stärkt BVT“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 9/2013
  • „Wechselwirkungen zwischen stilllegungsbezogenen Pflichten nach Art. 22 IED und Sanierungsverträgen“ in: Handbuch Altlastensanierung und Flächenmanagement (HdA), 69. Aktualisierung, Juni 2013
  • „Es ist vollbracht: Das neue Abfallrecht tritt in Kraft“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 6/2012
  • „Abfallentsorgungsmanagement im Industrie- oder Chemiepark“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 3/2012
  • „Verschärfte Betreiberhaftung für Boden- und Grundwasserverunreinigungen“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 10-11/2011
  • „Dioxin in Futter- und Lebensmitteln“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 3/2011
  • „Neues KrWG recycelt Abfallrecht“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 4-5/2010
  • „Das „Grüne“ im schwarz-gelben Koalitionsvertrag“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 12/2009
  • „EEG-Novelle – Ökostromvergütung neu ausbalanciert“ in: VDI UmweltMagazin, Heft 9/2008
  • Fast and focused advice.
    Volker Hoffmann: the head of the team, has a lot of experience and always offers practical solutions.
    The Hoffmann Liebs team can cover the entire range of environmental law as well as construction and planning law with great expertise.
    Legal 500 Germany 2024
  • Very quick and competent action.
    The attorney stays on top of us to bring the case to an optimal conclusion in our best interest.
    The Hoffmann Liebs team consistently demonstrates great empathy for the concerns of their clients and their other counsel. The willingness to think out-of-the-box and seek innovative solutions is very high.
    Legal 500 Germany 2023
  • Volker Hoffmann maintains a very human approach to all project participants, conveying at every moment a great sense of security that one is in good hands with him and the firm. His ‘rich experience with complex environmental (damage) and planning cases’ is always helpful. His understanding and empathy, also for the practical requirements of planners and engineers, make his cooperation in project teams very pleasant and enriching. In the end, the success of his legal advice speaks for itself and one wishes to be able to win him permanently as a consultant for all future mandates.
    “Volker Hoffmann heads the Hoffmann Liebs practice, which is characterized by a ‘high level of expertise‘, particularly on soil protection and contaminated site issues.”
    “Based in Düsseldorf, Hoffmann has a ‘wealth of experience with complex environmental (damage) and planning cases.’”
    Legal 500 Germany 2022
  • “‘Lawyer Volker Hoffmann is an absolute expert in environmental law and closely networked with experts, institutions and other market participants in the field of contaminated site management. His willingness to achieve considerable added value for the client, particularly in this area, through detailed work in the preparation of the facts and partly through his own historical research, is impressive‘”.
    ‘Recommended: Volker Hoffmann (Commercial Law: Düsseldorf & Public Law: Environmental and Planning Law)’
    Legal 500 Germany 2021
  • “‘Volker Hoffmann has extraordinarily high level of expertise in environmental law and is always proactive in exchanging information on technical (engineering) issues and thus further optimizing his legal advice.‘”
    ’Recommended: Volker Hoffmann (Commercial Law: Düsseldorf & Public Law: Environmental and Planning Law)
    Legal 500 Germany 2020
  • “Hoffmann Liebs Fritsch & Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB does excellent work in environmental and planung law at a ‘high level.’”
    “One new mandate of Hoffmann is a gravure printing company which is advised on the immission, accident and building regulations appropriate distance of an IED plant to a neighboring sanitary facility.”
    Legal 500 Germany 2018
  • “The ‘short ways and the professional knowledge‘ of the lawyers at Hoffmann Liebs Fritsch & Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB ensure a ‘very high level of efficiency‘. The ‘excellent access to partners‘ is also appreciated.”
    Volker Hoffmann advised client most recently on the distance requirements to an accident facility, on topics of drinking water pollution and immission control issues.”
    Legal 500 Germany 2017
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