Panoramic: Automotive and Mobility 2025
Corbinian Schwaab
Senior Associate Global Regulatory
Languages
German, English
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Corbinian Schwaab specializes in product-related regulatory matters. He helps clients around the world to successfully navigate the complex regulatory frameworks applicable to their products and to resolve product compliance issues, particularly in the automotive and mobility, industrials and technology sector.
Corbinian regularly advises on European market entry and other product-related regulatory requirements, such as type-approval and certification requirements, marking and labelling requirements, cybersecurity requirements, or requirements under environmental, chemicals and waste laws. His work also includes the review, revision and draft of contractual agreements in relation to regulatory requirements.
In addition, Corbinian helps clients to resolve product compliance issues and to defend them in regulatory proceedings. He advises on legal obligations, supports internal investigations, develops risk mitigation strategies and assists with authority and third-party communication.
Corbinian was seconded to a leading full-service provider for charging infrastructure. This gave him not only valuably insights in the e-mobility industry but also deepened his understanding for clients’ needs in terms of business-oriented and practicable legal solutions in a fast-paced and highly regulated business environment.
Representative experience
Advising numerous international automotive companies on complex global product compliance, internal investigations, authority and customer communication, and process optimization.
Defending several international automotive companies in regulatory proceedings.
Advising numerous automotive companies on type approval requirements, particularly with respect to emissions and CO2.
Advising numerous companies on requirements and obligations under chemicals law (REACH, RoHS, CLP, etc.).
Advising several companies on European market entry requirements.
Advising several international automotive suppliers on cybersecurity requirements and related contractual agreements.
Advising a leading full-service provider of charging infrastructure on regulatory requirements for trading greenhouse gas reduction quota (“GHG Quota”) and related contractual agreements.
Credentials
Education
- Second State Exam in Law, Higher Regional Court of Munich, 2019
- First State Exam in Law, LMU Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), 2017
- Study Abroad, University of Oslo, 2014
Publications
Insights and Analysis
Making sustainable products the norm – The proposed EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
08 January 2024