Wolfgang May

Wolfgang has more than 25 years of in-house experience in the field of non-technical intellectual property rights and licenses.He started his career in IP as Head of Trademarks at Muelhens ("4711") in Cologne. After the acquisition of Muelhens by Wella he moved on to build Wella's dedicated trademark department which he led as Head of Corporate Trademarks from 1998 until 2004, when he was appointed Associate General Counsel/Director Legal/Brand Equity at Procter & Gamble, who had acquired Wella in 2003.

His responsibility included the Brand Equity (Trademark) organization for Europe, Middle East and Africa as well as Beauty & Grooming globally. Wolfgang joined DLA Piper in 2013.