• Karsten has been recognized as one of Germany's best lawyers / recommended lawyer for corporate law by German Handelsblatt and Legal 500 for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
• Frequently listed as recommended lawyer for M&A in JUVE Handbook: "He has a good intuition & pragmatic answers that help me in decision making." (Handbook 2022/2023); "Always available, highly service oriented." (Handbook 2023/2024); "Applies a very structured approach, super dedicated." (Handbook 2024/2025)
• Frequently ranked in Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer (formerly Acritas Stars): "Extremely good customer service…he is also a very pleasant person and is always there for us." (2020); "He has a pronounced expertise in his field … with him we are currently doing a very large carve-out, which is very complex. He is also a very good project manager, which means he manages his own team very well, but he also helps me manage the organization to a certain extent by keeping track of things, asking where things are, explaining things to people, introducing them to topics." (2021); "He is also a good sparring partner for all the critical issues that I have to deal with on a daily basis. If I happen to have an idea and think to myself, 'Should I perhaps try it out again?' I call Karsten Kühnle and discuss the pros and cons of my potential decision with him." (2022); "His client focus, coupled with a healthy pragmatism and a good sense of where the risk lies with us when it comes to answering legal questions." (2023)
• “This might be the highest quality collection of people we have ever had working for us on a single issue!” (client, 2025)

Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald

• Rechtsanwalt (German qualified lawyer)

• Business Law Magazine: Mobility trends under review: What they mean for business and law – Issue 2/2025, June 2025
• The Passenger: Podcast – Die Zukunft der Mobilität: Megatrend-Studie: Welche Faktoren prägen die Mobilität der Zukunft?– The Passenger Podcast, with Harry Gatterer, June 2025
• JV governance: navigating challenges and opportunities – Financier Worldwide Magazine, May 2025
• MEGATREND STUDY MOBILITY: 14 trends for the future of mobility – Joint study with Zukunftsinstitut, May 2025
• In the spotlight: The most important trends in the legal market – BusinessLawMagazine (GermanLawInternational), November 2024 edition (co-authored by Lena Haffner and Gunnar Skoeries)
• Keynote speaker “Are you ready: Spin-off and carve-out transactions as an instrument for value creation” – Corporate strategy days of a German listed group (EUR 13bn turnover), June 2024
• Carve-outs: Do’s and don’ts for sellers and financial investors – What's up Corporate Finance, March 2024 (Podcast together with Gunnar Skoeries)
• Post M&A Disputes – Effective concepts to avoid getting dragged into post M&A-disputes – German AnwaltSpiegel roundtable discussion, March 2024
• Carve-outs: An effective instrument for value creation – Joint study on carve-out transactions in the DACH-Region with AlixPartners, May 2023
• Spin Offs and Carve Outs – FINANCIER WORDLWIDE – Panellist Roundtable, May 2023
• EU Taxonomy Rules push corporate portfolio restructuring – Börsen-Zeitung,11 February 2023
• Separating the useful...from the harmful – “results”, FinanzWissen für Unternehmen, February 2022 edition
• Bridging the valuation gap in times of uncertainty – Norton Rose Fulbright M&A Outlook 2023
• Carve-outs: a trend that also triggers prejudices – Finance magazine, 28 November 2022
• Carve-out transactions on the rise – TV interview in German Finance-TV session, November 2022
• Legal commentary (English) on Article 86 seqq. (cross-border conversions) of Directive (EU) 2019/2121 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 amending Directive (EU) 2017/1132 as regards cross-border conversions, mergers and divisions. Published in August 2021 in the commentary series (Nomos, Beck, Hart) Internationales und Europäisches Wirtschaftsrecht (IEWR) / International and European Business Law (IEBL), editors: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Kindler and Prof. Dr. Jan Lieder
• Commentary on corporate law issues (as regards German limited liability companies) in Dr. von Göler Anwaltskommentare (online commentary) (2022-2024)
• The raising popularity of multi-national carve-out transactions – Norton Rose Fulbright M&A Outlook 2022
• Joint ventures: Market analysis on success factors and outlook for 2021 – Norton Rose Fulbright study and publication
• Due diligence obligations regarding human rights are on the advance – Summary of current developments (together with Michael Wiedmann), C.H. Beck Newsdienst Compliance 2020, 210119
• Who is afraid of the upcoming Supply Chain Act? (together with Michael Wiedmann) – Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel, edition no. 16 of 5 August 2020
• Contracts with former board members (together with Oliver Polster) – NWJ-aktuell 10/2020, page 19
• Co-determination not mandatory - Lean supervisory board in case of change to an SE remains disputed – FAZ of 24 October 2018 /no. 247, page 16
• Dax-listed corporations screen their supply chains: Human rights in the focus of financial reports - companies lag behind (together with Michael Wiedmann) – BZ of 28 July 2018
• EU strengthens protection for whistleblowers - New directive puts German government under pressure - Reduced penalties for effective compliance systems still missing (with Michael Wiedmann) – Börsen-Zeitung of 15 May 2018, page 9
• Acid test for acquisitions abroad – Markt und Mittelstand, April 2007 edition, page 36 et seqq.
• The fairytale of an escape into the European stock corporation (together with Kai Krüger) – BZ of 25 March 2017 /no. 60
• Ruling of the district court of Frankfurt on taking foreign employees into account in the application of the Co-Determination Act – C.H. Beck Newsdienst Compliance 2015, 22030
• Ruling of the district court of Berlin on the limitation of co-determination to domestic establishments – C.H. Beck Newsdienst Compliance 2015, 22101
• "News" on the conflict-of-laws qualification of creditor-protecting matters in the insolvency of a foreign front company (together with Dirk Otto) – IPRAX 2009, 117
• The acquisition of a company undergoing insolvency procedures – Opportunities and particularities of contract drafting (together with Nico Abel) – M&A-Review 7/2009

Frankfurt Bar Association

• German
• English