Dr. Marc Ruttloff

Partner, Gleiss Lutz

Dr. Marc Ruttloff (Co-Head of the ESG practice and the Product Compliance Hub in Stuttgart, Head of the Regulatory Practice and Co-Head of the Automotive & Mobility industry group, part of the Energy & Infrastructure and Digital Economy industry groups).

Marc advises on public commercial law, in particular on issues of administrative law, constitutional law, European law, public liability, and regulated industries. Another focus of his advice is on supply chain and ESG/CSR compliance, product liability and product safety law, all aspects of product compliance including current developments such as sustainability transformation, connectivity, data protection as well as artificial intelligence. He is Head of the Public Law Practice Group and Co-Head of the ESG Practice and the Automotive & Mobility Industry Group.

Marc studied in Würzburg, where he also completed a supplementary course in European law, and in Cologne, where he received his doctorate in 2011. He has been with Gleiss Lutz since 2010. His doctoral thesis, The Admissibility of Penalty Clauses in Urban Development Contracts in Connection with Large-Scale Retail Projects, received the University of Cologne’s doctoral award in 2012. He was a scholar of the German National Academic Foundation from 2002 to 2007 and received the Wolfgang Kuhlen Prize of the Dr. Otto Schäfer Foundation in 2007. In 2016, he completed a six-month secondment in the Regulatory/Environmental practice of a leading Canadian law firm in Toronto. He is a member of the Society for Environmental Law (Gesellschaft für Umweltrecht, GfU), the German-Canadian Society (Deutsch-Kanadische Gesellschaft, DKG), and the Administrative Law Working Group of the German Bar Association (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Verwaltungsrecht im DAV). He also serves on the board of the German section of the International Nuclear Law Association (INLA). Moreover, he is member of the constitutional law committee of the German Bar Association (Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer). He regularly speaks at specialist conferences and is the author of numerous publications.

Contributed to

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ESG in Germany

Practice Notes

Executive narrativeGermany’s ESG regime is best understood as a combination of EU disclosure and German enforcement channels with particular relevance for consumer or market-facing statements. For cross-border teams, the immediate execution risk is rarely the abstract existence of EU frameworks; it is:•whether German implementation timing creates temporary legal gaps or transition mechanics•whether regulators and private enforcers treat a statement as misleading, and•whether operational environmental compliance constraints are enforced through decentralised Länder permitting and administrative courtsDisclosure and reportingOn disclosure and reporting, Germany remains in a transposition catch-up phase for the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (EU) 2022/2464 (EU CSRD). Following the publication of a draft on 10 July 2025, the Federal Government introduced a CSRD transposition bill and the legislative process has since progressed, but not yet been completed.At EU level, the earlier ‘stop-the-clock’ changes deferred reporting obligations for later CSRD waves, and the now-final Omnibus I package has since further reshaped timing and scope assumptions for later

Environment

Practice Area

Environment

Panels

Contributing Author
International Panel

Experience

Gleiss Lutz (2010 - Present)

Membership

Gesellschaft für Umweltrecht (GfU)
Deutsch-Kanadische Gesellschaft (DKG)
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Verwaltungsrecht im DAV
International Nuclear Law Association (INLA), German Section (Board Member)
IBA – International Bar Association – Corporate Counsel Forum Liaison Officer of the Product Law and Advertising Committee

Qualifications

Doctorate (Dr.) (2011)
Lecturer in Product Law and Sustainability Law, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg (2022-Present)
ESG – Zeitschrift für nachhaltige Unternehmensführung - editor and managing editor (2023-present)
Editor - Das Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz in der Unternehmenspraxis (The Supply Chain Due Diligence Act in business practice) (2022)