Arne Quast
Arne Quast studied law in Greifswald and Göttingen and was an assistant at the Chair of Civil Law, Commercial and Business Law at the Georg-August University Göttingen before and during his legal clerkship.
Professional Career
In 2003, he was admitted to the bar and has since worked primarily as an associate for the law firm Dr. Hall (until 2019 Jordan & Hall). This gives him extensive experience in third-instance legal remedy proceedings. After being admitted to the bar at the Federal Court of Justice in 2025, he founded the partnership Hall & Quast with Dr. Reiner Hall.
Memberships
- Banking Law Association
- Corporate Law Association
- Society of Legal Studies Karlsruhe
Dr. Reiner Hall
After a banking apprenticeship with the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt a.M., studies and 1st state examination in Bonn (where he also obtained his doctorate) and 2nd state examination in Munich, Reiner Hall became a lawyer in 1989 and has been admitted to the Bar at the Federal Court of Justice since 2000.
Ratings
Selected from JUVE Handbooks
"THE capacity for revisions"
"Excellent briefs, pleasant consultation and coordination"
"Extremely service oriented"
"Precise, proactive, tactically adept"
"He brings the decisive problems to the point even in the most complex proceedings - great conduct of negotiations"
Memberships
- Banking Law Association (Board Member)
- German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)
- German Arbitration Institute (DIS)
- German Lawyers' Association (DAV) – Working Groups Banking and Stock Exchange Law as well as Insolvency Law and Restructuring
- Society of Legal Studies Karlsruhe (Executive Board member)
Publications
Next to several contributions to commemorative publications, etc., he is co-author to the commentary on the Code of Civil Procedure Prütting/Gehrlein and to the Benkard, the standard commentary on patent law.
Law firm
The law office can look back on a long history. It follows the legacy of the law firm established at the Federal Court of Justice in 1953 by Dr. Georg Greuner and later continued by Dr. Oliver Brändel and Götz Jordan. From 2000 to 2019, it operated with partners Götz Jordan and Dr. Reiner Hall, then as a sole practice Dr. Reiner Hall, and since July 2025 as a partnership with partner Arne Quast.
As lawyers admitted to the Federal Court of Justice, we practice in all areas of civil law. Our focus is on business law (including intellectual property rights). Our expertise in this area is particularly sought after by clients, which include numerous leading companies from Germany and abroad.
Characteristics
Our goal is to achieve the best possible result for every case entrusted to us. To this end, we set the highest quality standards for our work and, wherever possible, maintain exchange with our lower court colleagues. Our clients and appellate colleagues appreciate this: Our law firm has many years of collaboration with numerous outstanding lawyers, and our regular clients include renowned banks and savings institutions, infrastructure companies, leading German automobile manufacturers, insolvency administrators, and insurance companies. We invest the same intensity for those clients who might bring a case to the Federal Court of Justice only once in a lifetime.
Emphases
Due to our exclusive admission, we are generally only active in proceedings before the Federal Court of Justice, primarily in revisions, complaints against denial of leave to appeal, and legal complaints, as well as appeals in patent nullity proceedings. In the proceedings we handle, we are constantly dealing with the subject areas of all civil senates of the Federal Court of Justice, with a special focus on the following areas of law:
- Banking and capital market law
- Antitrust law
- Trademark and patent law
- General contract law
- Trade and company law
- Energy law
- Insolvency law
- Real estate law
References
Since 2011, the trade magazine "Juve" has been conducting annual surveys among leading commercial law firms on their preferences for Federal Court of Justice representations. The results speak for themselves:
Assessments (for Dr. Reiner Hall) include
"THE capacity for revisions"
"Excellent briefs, pleasant consultation and coordination"
"Extremely service oriented"
"Precise, proactive, tactically adept"
"He brings the decisive problems to the point even in the most complex proceedings - great conduct of negotiations"
Ranking of the
most recommended
Federal Court of Justice law firms
(Until 2019 Jordan & Hall law firm,until 2025 Dr. Reiner Hall law firm)
CONSISTENTLY
LEADING POSITIONS
(RANK 1, 2 OR 3)
