Short profile
Jens Poll is a Salary Partner at GLADE MICHEL WIRTZ and works with the CORPORATE practice. He advises national and international clients on all questions of corporate and commercial law. His practice focuses on corporate and capital market disputes as well as comprehensive advice and representation of companies, associations and their bodies in (extra-)judicial disputes.
Jens Poll studied law at the University of Göttingen with a focus on corporate law. He also spent two exchange semesters at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He passed his First Legal Exam in 2013. Thereafter, he worked as a research assistant for his doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler in Göttingen as well as for an internationally operating German law firm in Düsseldorf. In 2018, he received his doctoral degree.
During his legal clerkship, Jens Poll worked inter alia for the North-Rhine-Westphalia State Commissioner for the Protection of Data and Freedom of Information as well as for the German embassy in Yangon, Myanmar. He also worked for the CORPORATE team of GLADE MICHEL WIRTZ. He finished his clerkship taking the Second Legal State Exam in 2018.
Jens Poll is fluent in his native language German as well as in English.
In his leisure time, Jens Poll enjoys spending time with friends and his family as well as doing sports.

Experience and Matters
- Mercedes-Benz Group AG in the defense against investor claims in connection with diesel exhaust emissions in the context of KapMuG proceedings
- Continental AG: Advising the management board in connection with the settlement of legal disputes
- Vonovia SE: Advising the management board on stock corporation law
- Advising Apothekerverband Nordrhein e.V. in corporate law matters
- Litigation for a specialized bank in the social sector
- Advising und representing shareholders and managing directors in shareholder disputes
- Advising und representing a nationwide operating holding company in the real estate sector
Publications
- Datenschutz in und durch Unternehmensgruppen im europäischen Datenschutzrecht, Dissertation, 2018
Blog Posts
- Retsch / Poll / Pietsch, Kartellbußgeldregress bei Geschäftsleitern? Schlussanträge des Generalanwalts in der Rechtssache C-347/25, October 2026
- Poll, Wirksamkeit von Drittgeschäften zwischen Gesellschaft und Gesellschafter, August 2026
- Retsch / Poll / Pietsch, ICC Arbitration Rules 2026 – Die wichtigsten Neuerungen im Überblick, June 2026
- Retsch / Poll / Pietsch, Zum Anwendungsbereich des KapMuG, April 2026
- Retsch / Poll / Pietsch, Modernisierung des Schiedsverfahrensrechts #Update, March 2026
- Retsch / Poll / Pietsch, Schiedsgerichtsverfahren und Zuständigkeitskontrolle – gestrandete Reforminitiative, November 2025
- Retsch / Poll / Pietsch, Digitalisierung des Zivilprozesses: Entwicklung und Erprobung von Online-Verfahren, October 2025
- Poll, Bundesgerichtshof gewährt erstmalig Schadensersatz wegen Verletzung einer Gerichtsstandsvereinbarung, June 2020