Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer will close its Cologne office, with the bulk of the office’s 18 partners and around 60 associates moving to its Düsseldorf base. The team will be joined in Düsseldorf by corporate head Rick van Aerssen and corporate partner Andreas Fabritius who will relocate from the Frankfurt office. The move is part of the […]
Pinsent Masons has continued its expansion in Germany by bolting on a four-partner capital markets boutique in Munich. The team from Mayrhofer & Partner will join Pinsents on 1 January. It is led by founding partner Thomas Mayrhofer, and includes partners Alexander Thomas, Gudrun Moll and Hans-Ulrich Birkhofer. The hires follow two other lateral hires […]
DWF is set to acquire German commercial boutique BridgehouseLaw in a move that sees the firm move into its third jurisdiction outside of the UK and Ireland. The merger will increase DWF’s turnover by £3m and bring total revenue at the firm to £194m. The acquisition will go live on 1 January 2016 and see […]
Having spearheaded Goodwin Procter’s London launch four years ago, City chair David Evans is keen to recreate the firm’s success over in Germany. For a start, there are many similarities between Goodwin Procter’s City opening and entry into the Frankfurt legal market. The firm chose to hire Ashurst partners to launch both offices, with […]
Clifford Chance has moved to strengthen its German offering with the appointment of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s global co-head of energy and natural resources, Anselm Raddatz. Raddatz will join Clifford Chance’s Düsseldorf office and will co-head the firm’s German corporate group alongside Thomas Krecek. He will also be a member of the firm’s global corporate leadership […]
German firm Luther has announced a 6 per cent rise in global turnover, from €114m to €121m (£90m) in the last financial year. The firm produced the same growth in Germany and from its overseas offices. In Germany the firm brought in €107.6m last year, up from €101.5m in 2013/14. The results continue a strong […]
Latham & Watkins has hired Clifford Chance’s Germany banking and capital markets head Alexandra Hagelüken in its third appointment from the magic circle firm’s German offices. Frankfurt-based Hagelüken rejoins former colleagues Olivier Felsenstein and Burc Hesse at Latham. She advises banks, funds and corporates on a range of financing deals and general corporate lending. Latham’s […]
Local firms in Germany are working in an increasingly competitve market with good dealflow.
Germany’s crowded and fiercely competitive market has sparked a flurry of comings and goings by international firms.
US firm Greenberg Traurig has picked up Olswang’s Berlin team to launch in Germany, its fourth European office. Olswang announced it was “decoupling” its Berlin office last month in a bid to focus on TMT (18 June 2015). The entire office, over 50 lawyers and staff, will join Greenberg Traurig on 1 October. Of those, […]
Olswang has confirmed that 13 equity partners, mainly in corporate and finance, will be leaving the firm by agreement later in the year, along with their colleagues in the Berlin office, who are set to spin off into a “different brand”. According to a statement by the firm, the partners have agreed an arrangement which […]
Eversheds has merged with its German arm, Heisse Kursawe Eversheds, over a year after first mooting a full tie-up between Germany and the UK-headquartered LLP. Heisse Kursawe will now trade as Eversheds Deutschland LLP. It was previously part of Eversheds International, the grouping of international offices which are not financially-integrated with the LLP. The firms […]