Nils-Hendrik Grohmann advises German and international clients on international trade and public procurement law. He represents them in legal proceedings before the German and European courts as well as before the procurement review bodies. Nils-Hendrik also provides advice on ESG-related European regulatory and compliance matters.
Nils-Hendrik is admitted to the Bar in Germany (Rechtsanwalt).
Languages: German, English, French, Norwegian
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Nils-Hendrik studied law at the University of Münster and the University of Oslo, specialising in international public law.
After passing his first state examination, he worked as a research assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Andreas Zimmermann (LL.M. Harvard) for international and European law at the University of Potsdam. As part of this work, he also wrote his doctoral thesis on a topic of international law.
He then completed his legal clerkship (‘Referendariat’) at the Berlin Court of Appeal, with placements at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs, a Berlin boutique law firm specialising in public commercial law, and the German Consulate General in Hong Kong.
Before joining BLOMSTEIN as an associate, Nils-Hendrik worked as a legal advisor on residence and asylum law at a Berlin-based NGO.
Publications
State Silence and the Framework of the ICCPR, in: Azaria (ed.), State Silence Across International Law: Meaning, Context, and Developments, OUP 2025 (with Andreas Zimmermann)
Strengthening the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies: An Analysis of the Committees' Legal Powers and Possibilities for Reform, dissertation, Mohr Siebeck 2024
Tracing the Development of the Proportionality Analysis in Relation to Forced Evictions under the ICESCR, Human Rights Law Review (2022) 22, Issue No. 3
Rückholungsansprüche von IS-Rückkehrern im Lichte nationaler und internationaler Rechtsprechungsentwicklungen, DÖV 2022, p. 164
Presentations
Reformers on Their Own – Contributions and Opportunities of the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies in the Current Strengthening Process, UN World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna 1993 – Strengthening Imperatives 30 Years After, Vienna, 29 September 2023