Matthias W. Stecher advises businesses from numerous sectors on industrial property rights and competition law as well as international business law. His focus is on manufacturers of machinery and businesses in the publishing industry.

Matthias Stecher has extensive litigation experience, in particular in connection with industrial property rights (trademarks, patents, copyrights, registered designs) and technical products (e.g. bottle filling plant, automatic parking garage, highway bridge, laser cutting machine, bicycle component). Another core area of his work is contract drafting in both German and in English, for example, licensing contracts, agreements on the transfer of technology and distribution.

Matthias Stecher also advises his numerous foreign clients, particularly Italian clients, on general commercial law (e.g. establishing and looking after German subsidiaries, joint ventures and distribution as well as conducting court and arbitration proceedings).

in the fields of commercial law and intellectual property; Protection of minority shareholders (1997, editor and co-author); Webvertising - unfair competition and trademarks on the internet (1999, editor and co-author)