Dentons opens in Munich with Norton Rose team hire
Norton Rose German boss and corporate partner Alexander von Bergwelt will lead the team and becoming managing partner of Dentons’ Munich office.
HSF hires Baker & McKenzie EMEA M&A chair
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has continued its German expansion with the hire of Baker & McKenzie’s EMEA M&A chair Sönke Becker.
Latham takes Freshfields competition partner in Germany
Latham & Watkins has picked up Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer competition partner Michael Esser in a boost to its German competition practice.
HSF adds nine-lawyer disputes team in Germany from AGS Legal
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has made a disputes team hire in Germany, taking two partners and seven lawyers from litigation boutique Acker Görling & Schmalz (AGS Legal).
Kirkland hires M&A team from Hengeler Mueller in Germany
Kirkland & Ellis has made a major corporate team hire in Germany from Hengeler Mueller.
Noerr breaks through €200m turnover barrier with 5 per cent rise
German firm Noerr has continued a strong run of financial results, reporting a 5.3 per cent rise in turnover for the 2015 financial year to bring revenue to €207.7m (£167.2m). The firm said income from its five German offices rose by 6.9 per cent, from €177.9m in 2014 to €190.2m last year. However revenue from […]
European independents branch out with foreign offices
Luxembourg firm Arendt & Medernach, Germany’s GSK Stockmann & Kollegen and Italian firm Pavia e Ansaldo have all announced the launch of new offices in neighbouring European jurisdictions. Arendt opened a representative office in Paris at the start of the year, becoming the first Luxembourg firm to have a presence in the French capital. The […]
Mayer Brown launches German PE practice with KWM hires
Mayer Brown has continued the global growth of its private equity team with the hire of two partners from King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) in Frankfurt, including German corporate head Julian Lemor.
Heuking enters German top 10 as revenue hits €132m
German firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek has reported another year of revenue growth, with turnover rising 8.8 per cent from €121m to €131.6m (£99.7m). The rise follows continued growth in headcount at Heuking, which has recruited heavily in recent years. Notably the firm recruited an 18-strong team from GSK Stockmann & Kollegen to launch in […]
Pinsents raids KPMG to open second German office
Pinsent Masons has hired a three-partner team from KPMG to launch its second German office in Düsseldorf in February. The hires include KPMG’s energy and major projects head Thorsten Volz who will lead Pinsents’ German energy practice. He will become head of the firm’s Düsseldorf office. The other two partners are Torsten Wielsch and Sönke Gödeke, who led KPMG’s […]
Germany: independent firms and predictions for 2016
Inconsistency is the hallmark of international firms’ strategies in the complex German market, so how are the independents taking advantage?
European firms join Slaughters and BLP on latest GE disposal deal
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has won a role on its second General Electric (GE) related acquisition in a month, working with Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel on the acquisition of GE’s equipment finance and receivable finance businesses. The transaction comes just a few weeks after BLP advised an investment consortium on its £3.8bn purchase of […]