Wolfgang is Chairman of Bird & Bird’s offices in Germany and Joint Head of the firm’s International Intellectual Property Group. 
 
Wolfgang has established a leading international reputation for IP litigation including patents, trade marks and competition and antitrust matters. He is highly renowned for work in all areas of intellectual property, both nationally and internationally and has been involved in many high-profile and technical patent cases, including those for the life sciences and pharmaceutical sectors.

Wolfgang advises major multinational firms. During his career he has won a number of high profile and important cases for his clients. Many of these have been precedent cases in Germany. He is entitled to practice before all German Regional Courts and Higher Regional Courts, the Federal Patent Court and the EPO and German PTO.

The annual JUVE Handbook of German Commercial Law Firms continuously identifies Wolfgang as a leading lawyer in his field. Since 2003 Global Counsel distinguishes him as a “Highly Recommended Intellectual Property Practitioner in Germany,” adding in their 2007 Handbook for Intellectual Property that Wolfgang is a “strategically excellent and one of the best litigators in Europe”. Additionally, Wolfgang von Meibom won the “2004 WORLD leaders European IP Award” and the distinction of "Best contribution to IP Enforcement". The Managing Intellectual Property Guide 2003 listed Wolfgang as a leading patent and trade mark law experts.

Wolfgang is a member of the German and international intellectual property associations such as AIPLA, ALAI, EPLAW and IBA. He frequently lectures on patent law at international conventions and seminars. In June 2006 he has been awarded as a guest professor of the Civil Commercial and Economic Law School of the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPSL).

Wolfgang is a Faculty Member of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center MIPLC and an advisory board member of the faculty of law at the Heinrich- Heine University in Düsseldorf. He is author of many legal publications.