Dr Jan Byok is partner. He focuses on public sector/infrastructure, concessions and public-private-partnerships. He specialises on public law, cartel, public procurement and competition law as well as contract, communications and IT law. Jan is heading the firm’s international public sector practice group.

Jan has an in-depth understanding of the public IT and communication systems, the health, energy and public utilities sector (health, water, energy, disposal), transport and logistics (ÖPNV, SPNV), privatisation,  outsourcing/insourcing projects (PPP) and defence & security. He has successfully advised on numerous public infrastructures and outsourcing deals across Germany and Europe.

Jan is a regular contributor to legal journals and business publications and has an extensive list of publications. He is the Co-editor and author of the leading commentary on German public procurement law (Byok/Jaeger, Kommentar zum Vergaberecht, 2005) as well as a public procurement reporter for the Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW), where he last published under NJW 2010, 817 et seq.

Jan and his team are amongst the most recognised specialists in Germany. In the current edition of JUVE Handbook he is rated as one of the top lawyers for public procurement law. Jan is a lecturer at the legal department of the University of Cologne.