Marian Niestedt has been advising clients on all aspects of trade compliance and economic security for over 20 years. He specialised in foreign direct investment (FDI) screening law, export control and sanctions law as well as customs law. He has extensive experience in foreign trade and customs law compliance audits as well as the development and implementation of compliance measures. He also represents clients before the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE), customs authorities and national and European courts.
According to the JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms, Marian Niestedt is one of the leading lawyers in foreign trade law, foreign direct investment (FDI) screening and customs law in Germany. He is (co-)editor of leading commentaries in the field of German and European foreign trade and customs law and co-editor of ZASA (Zeitschrift für das Recht der Außenwirtschaft, Sanktionen und Auslandsinvestitionen).
Investment review
Critical infrastructures
Export control
Embargoes and sanctions
Customs law
German
English
French
‘Leading name in foreign trade law’ and ‘professional and fact-orientated’ (JUVE 2025/2026)
‘Leading name in foreign trade law, investment control and customs law’ (JUVE 2024/2025)
‘Leading name in customs and excise duties’ (JUVE Handbook of Tax Law 2024)
‘Top lawyer in foreign trade law’ (WirtschaftsWoche 48/2023)
‘Thought Leader Germany’ in Trade & Customs (Lexology Index / Who's Who Legal Germany 2024)
Recommended by Lexology Index / Who's Who Legal Trade & Customs for Trade & Customs since 2010
Handelsblatt/ Best Lawyers for European Union Law and Trade Law
European Forum for Foreign Trade Law e.V. (EFA)
Foreign Trade Round Table e. V.
Forum Investitionsprüfung e.V.
German Branch of the International Law Association (Deutsche Vereinigung für Internationales Recht)
Lecturer at Hamburger Zollakademie
BeckOK Außenwirtschaftsrecht (Editor and Annotation of i.e. §§ 11-15 und 30-32 AWG, §§ 31-42, 46-48, 55-62a and 74-79 AWV as well as Art. 6 and 10-14 Dual-Use-Regulation)
Krenzler/Herrmann/Niestedt, EU-Außenwirtschafts- und Zollrecht (Editor and Annotation of i.e. Regulations on Embargo- and Sanctions,EU-Blocking-Reguation as well as Union Customs Code: Artt. 69-76 (customs value), 116-123 (Repayment and Remission) und 203-209 UZK (returned goods))
Die Zinsen schlafen nicht – aber in welcher Höhe? Zeitschrift für Zölle und Verbrauchsteuern (ZfZ) 2022, 231
Die novellierte Dual-Use-Verordnung der EU: Viel Geschrei und wenig Wolle?, ZfZ 2021, 194
It takes one to divorce but it takes two to tango: Der Brexit und seine Auswirkungen auf den internationalen Handel, ZfZ 2020, 54 (together with Nina Kunigk)
Novelle des Außenwirtschaftsrechts – Verschärfung der Investitionskontrolle, Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW) 2020, 2504 (together with Nina Kunigk)
Sanktionsmaßnahmen der EU – globale oder nur lokale Compliance-Herausforderung für deutsche Unternehmen?, Compliance Berater (CB) 2015, 152 (together with Axel Krause)
Die Geltung des EU-Sanktionsrechts für Tochtergesellschaften und Niederlassungen, in: Ehlers/Wolffgang (Hrsg.), Recht der Exportkontrolle –Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven, 2015, p. 243
Das neue Außenwirtschaftsrecht, Betriebs Berater (BB) 2013, 2115 (together with Dr. Matthias Trennt)
