Strong Foundation for Legal Innovation and AI: ARQIS appoints Dr. Christof Alexander Schneider as Partner for Legal Innovation & AI

06. October 2025

Dr. Christof Alexander Schneider, partner and lawyer at ARQIS, is taking on the newly created position of Partner for Legal Innovation & AI with immediate effect. In this role, he will work with a team to consolidate the firm's existing legal innovation and AI initiatives, continuing to drive the topic forward at management level.

Dr. Christof Alexander Schneider has been a partner in the Transactions focus group at ARQIS since 2013. He is supported in his new role by a team of three. "Combining my work as a lawyer with the management of the Legal Innovation and AI department isn’t a contradiction. On the contrary: I am convinced that true innovation can only come from practical experience. Above all, I remain first and foremost an M&A lawyer with full conviction, combining this role with leading the Legal Innovation and AI team," explained Dr. Schneider.

The topics legal innovation and AI have already been integral within the firm’s approach for several years. In line with this, ARQIS already uses various tools in its day-to-day work. The new role of Dr. Christof Schneider and his team will now bundle all of these topics and structure them more clearly. This also includes the offering of targeted training programs for all lawyers and employees, which will be available throughout the firm with immediate effect. Also, findings and results of the previous intensive testing of several legal AI providers will be incorporated here. ARQIS is also working on the development of its own legal tech tools.

Dr. Andrea Panzer-Heemeier, Managing Partner at ARQIS, added: "We are honored to have Christof Schneider starting this important, future-facing role. We don’t see legal innovation and AI as ends in themselves, but as a means of making our work for our clients more efficient and, above all, better. Our focus will always be on qualitative added value. This is inherently linked to personal and professionally sound legal advice."

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