Wiebke Hederich-McCall, LL.M. (Otago)

Attorney at law

Specialist lawyer for administrative law

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

English

PRACTICE AREA

Ms Wiebke Hederich-McCall advises companies and municipalities on public environmental and planning law as well as public commercial law:

• Development plans
• Urban development contracts
• Building permits
• Exercise of the right of first refusal
• Urban development statutes (such as parking space statutes, open space design statutes)
• Questions of special urban development law
• Acquisition and sale of companies by the public sector
• Road law
• Use and design of public space

Another area of expertise of Ms Hederich-McCall is in the field of Environmental Social Governance (ESG). Ms Hederich-McCall co-founded the ESG practice group at ZIRNGIBL and is the editor of the Environmental Social Governance (ESG) section in the publication ‘Compliance aktuell’ at the publishing house C.F. Müller. Together with the ESG practice group, Ms Hederich advises companies on

• Introduction of a climate and sustainability strategy
• Non-financial reporting
• EU taxonomy
• Supply chain due diligence
• Climate lawsuits
• Sustainable construction

CAREER

• A levels in Hannover
• Degree in Berlin and Leuven (Belgium)
• First state examination in Berlin
• LL.M. in New Zealand
• Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Berlin
• Second state examination in Berlin
• Admitted to the bar since 2013
• Specialist lawyer in administrative law since 2018

• Examination of public law risks in the context of major property transactions
• Support in urban land-use planning procedures for the construction of new retail stores
• Support for an urban land-use planning procedure for the expansion of a nursing home
• Support with urban land-use plans and urban development statutes (such as parking space statutes, design and greening statutes) for local authorities
• Drafting and negotiating urban development contracts for nationally recognised companies and municipalities
• Nationwide support for planning permission procedures for well-known companies
• Termination of a building freeze at the headquarters of a major German bank
• Initiatives for legislative amendments to the BauGB and state building regulations for a company in the solar industry
• Budgetary review of the acquisition of a civil engineering company by a large German energy supply company

• 2026: Hederich-McCall, Wiebke, Regnath/Katharina: Overview of Case Law on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) (Compliance aktuell, Issue 31, C.F. Müller Publishers.)
• 2025: Hederich-McCall, Wiebke: Parkflächen effizient nutzen – welche Möglichkeiten haben Kommunen in Bayern? In: Bayerische Gemeinde: 2025, 585.
• 2025: Hederich-McCall/Weihberg: Errichtung von Ladeinfrastruktur für Elektromobilität im Bestand, KlimaRZ 2025, 187.
• 2025: Hederich-McCall, Wiebke: Privaten Parkraum besser nutzen – eine Chance für den öffentlichen Raum. In: Zeitschrift für Umweltrecht 2025, 460.
• 2024: Hederich-McCall, Wiebke: Environmental, social and governance (ESG) and compliance (Compliance aktuell, issue 26, Verlag C.F. Müller.)
• 2013: Steffen/Hederich: Sanierungsverträge – ein hervorragendes Instrument zur Lösung von Altlastenproblemen (GAB- Altlastensymposion 2013, S. 114)
• 2009: Hederich: The Protection of Terrestrial Biological Diversity and Climate Change – An Environmental Law Perspective, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2009
• 2006: Dross/Hederich: Promoting eco-innovations: the Environmental Technologies Action Plan (ETAP) of the EU Commission (Elni Review No 1+2/2006, S. 52)