JULIA PAUL
Lawyer
Director
+49 211 955 869 72
+49 152 582 641 30
julia.paul@orthpartners.com
.vita
2010-2011
KPMG Law
2011-2013
PwC Legal AG
2013-2016
KPMG Law
2016-03/2025
Pinsent Masons
.focal points
➔ EU State Aid Law
➔ Higher Education Law
➔ Research and Development
.about
Julia Paul has been advising clients for more than 15 years on all aspects of public commercial law, with a particular focus on EU state aid law and research and development. Her clients include the public sector, as well as public and private companies, universities, and research institutions.
Julia Paul has extensive experience in identifying and mitigating EU state aid risks in existing and planned contracts, including through the drafting of engagement agreements, the application of the private investor test, and the structuring of service/consideration relationships of all kinds in compliance with EU state aid law.
She also regularly reviews contracts in the field of contract and collaborative research for compliance with the EU Framework for R&D Aid.
She is married and has four children.
PUBLICATIONS
Koenig/Paul/Traupel (eds.), European State Aid Law – Texts and Materials, German/English, Beck Verlag 2009
Streinz (ed.),Commentary on the EUV/TFEU, Art. 106–109 TFEU (together with Ch. Koenig and J. Kühling), Beck Verlag, (March 2018)
State aid screening of hospital funding – exemplified by the German case, EStAL 4/2010, 755
New developments regardingthe concept of state aid – Part 1, Journal of State Aid Law (BRZ) 2010, 131 (co-authored with Ch. Koenig)
New Developments Regarding the Concept of State Aid – Part 2, Journal of State Aid Law (BRZ) 2010, 193 (co-authored with Ch. Koenig)
Is Hospital Financing a Pathological Case for Transparency Measures Under EC State Aid Law or Even for Unbundling Measures?, EuZW 2009, 844 (co-authored with Ch. Koenig)
Recent Trends in EC State Aid Law Requirements for Real Estate and Facility Transactions, Journal of State Aid Law (BRZ) 2009, 52 (co-authored with Sonja Fechtner)
The Parameters for the EC State Aid Assessment of Public Real Estate Transactions, EWS 2008, 113 et seq. (with Ch. Koenig)
Hospital Financing in the Crossfire of EC State Aid Control, EuZW 2008, 359 (with Ch. Koenig)
Assessment under EC State Aid Law of Subsequent Changes to the Service/Consideration Elements of an Infrastructure Tender, EWS 2006, 145 (co-authored with Ch. Koenig)
Recovery of State Aid Following a Reassignment of Operational Management, EuZW 2006, 653 (co-authored with Ch. Koenig)
ECJ case law on “in-house” public procurement and recent developments, IR 2006, 248 (co-authored with Ch. Koenig)
The relevance of EC State aid control for PPP infrastructure funding, EPPPL Review 2005, 5 (co-authored with Ch. Koenig)
