Heval Mienert studied law at Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg. While working as a research assistant at the University of Würzburg, he earned his doctorate with a dissertation titled “Geolocation – Geoblocking and Geotargeting as Solutions to Trademark Conflicts on the Internet.”
He completed his legal clerkship at the Berlin Court of Appeal, with placements at the Federal Chancellery (fundamental issues of digital policy) and at an international corporate law firm in New York. Before founding the law firm Mienert, Heval Mienert worked as an attorney in the Berlin office of the international corporate law firm Morrison & Foerster LLP. There, he advised international companies in the technology and media sectors primarily on issues of IT law and general contract law.
Today, he advises clients on IT law, media law, blockchain technology, and intellectual property law. He is also a lecturer on intellectual property law in the master’s program “European Film Business and Law,” offered by the Erich Pommer Institute in cooperation with the Film University Babelsberg and the University of Potsdam.