CMS Hasche Sigle has appointed 11 new partners in a bumper promotions round for the German firm. The appointments, more than double the five promotions made in 2010, are spread across five areas of practice and several of the firm’s offices. Managing partner Cornelius Brandi said CMS Hasche Sigle remained “on a growth trajectory” and […]
German firm CMS Hasche Sigle has elected a new managing partner to replace Cornelius Brandi, who will step down to become senior partner next year. Hubertus Kolster, a corporate partner, was elected at the firm’s annual partner meeting on 13 November and will begin his four-year term on 1 July 2011. Kolster said he will […]
German firm Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft has elected two managing partners to lead the firm from July. Hans-Georg Hahn and Markus Sengpiel will take over from Stefan Kraus, who has held the position for the past 15 years and is a founding partner of the firm. Hahn and Sengpiel, who will start in their new posts on […]
German firm Noerr is to open an office in London months after registering as an English LLP. Munich corporate and media partner Hans Radau will head the new office, which is set to open later this year and will focus on M&A, banking, restructuring, media, insurance, and international litigation. Thomas Heitzer, an insurance expert at […]
Hogan & Hartson and Lovells have moved one step closer to making their agreed merger a reality after gaining competition clearance in Cyprus and Germany.
German firm Graf von Westphalen has appointed a new dual management team to succeed Freiburg partner Barbara Mayer and Hamburg partner Carsten Bittner.
Germany’s industrial economic strength means its lawyers are optimistic despite the downturn – and the German offices of UK firms are coming good too The word bullish was not made to describe German lawyers. Natural Teutonic reserve does ;not ;quite allow them to crow over their English partners. And the German gesture to signify mocking […]
Germany’s Act on Equal Treatment brings discrimination laws under one blanket, but it will potentially increase the burden for companies, warns Michael Leue On 29 June 2006, the German Federal Parliament passed the much-debated Act on Equal Treatment (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz (AGG)). The AGG, which came into force on 18 August 2006 and was subsequently amended […]
The German legislator has seen a flurry of activity in recent months and in this Special Report The Lawyer examines the key issues and the practical implications that have arisen. In August the German General Equal Treatment Act came into force, kickstarting German employers into action, as employees can now claim damages and indemnification as […]
Want to get ahead in Germany? Aled Griffiths reveals the seven steps to happiness 1. It’s about the domestic market. US and London firms often judge German firms by their own yardsticks of how international the M&A practices are. But considering the potential in the German market, no leading corporate firm would do itself justice […]
The highlights of the year Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Without doubt highly impressive figures from the German offices (35 per cent more turnover than any other firm), even though profitability still lags some way behind that of other major jurisdictions within the firm. The one exception is, as ever, the enigmatic Hamburg office, which even London […]
Ashurst Morris Crisp (David Kershaw) advised Global Freight Exchange in connection with an equity investment by British Airways, Air France and Lufthansa Cargo. British Airways was advised in-house, Clifford Chance advised Air France and Wilmer Cutler & Pickering advised Lufthansa. Davis Polk & Wardwell (Patrick Kenadjian) advised Telekom Austria on the €55m (£34.9m) offering of […]