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• Taylor Wessing shakes up leadership

  May 16 2012 Taylor Wessing has overhauled its management structure in an effort to introduce younger partners into the firm’s leadership. The firm’s trademark, copyright and... more

• Dewey continues to lose talent

  May 04 2012 Dewey & LeBoeuf continues to hemorrhage its lawyer base, with the Moscow team jumping ship to open a Russia base for Morgan Lewis & Bockius, while London banking and... more

• German firm Glade Michel Wirtz adds two Shearman & Sterling partners to the team

  Apr 17 2012 German corporate and competition boutique Glade Michel Wirtz has made a couple of high profile lateral hires, bringing two partners across from US firm Shearman &... more

• Bird & Bird promotes 12 to partnership

  Apr 11 2012 Bird & Bird has promoted 12 lawyers to the partnership this year, a dramatic increase on last year’s figures, when only two lawyers were made up. CEO David Kerr... more

• Skadden set to launch German capital markets practice after double hire

  Feb 08 2012 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is set to launch a capital markets practice in Germany after the hire a two-partner team from Shearman & Sterling. Shearman's... more

• King & Spalding hires international arbitration expert in Frankfurt

  Jan 02 2012 King & Spalding has boosted its international arbitration practice in the Frankfurt office with the hire of Jan K. Schaefer of Allen & Overy. Schaefer’s practice... more

• Herbert Smith to part ways with Gleiss Lutz and Stibbe on 31 Dec

  Dec 29 2011 The alliance between Herbert Smith, German firm Gleiss Lutz and Benelux firm Stibbe will officially dissolve on 31 December 2011. Following a strategic review,... more

• Pinsent Masons set to launch European presence

  Dec 12 2011 Pinsent Masons is set to launch offices in France and Germany in the first half of 2012, marking the firm’s first foray into continental Europe. These launches mark... more

• UK firm Martineau teams with German firm to launch in Brussels

  Oct 18 2011 UK firm Martineau is set to launch a new office in Brussels, after concluding negotiations to ally with German firm Becker Büttner Held. Becker Büttner Held has been... more

• Berwin Leighton Paisner to launch two German offices

  Sep 19 2011 Berwin Leighton Paisner is set to make a strong entry into the German legal services market with the opening of two new offices – one in Berlin and one in Frankfurt.... more

• Salans makes lateral hires in Paris and Frankfurt

  Sep 15 2011 Salans has hired three partners across its France and Germany practices. The firm raided Bird & Bird for talent, scooping up the co-head of the firm’s French IP... more

• Hogan Lovells in Hamburg loses 13 media lawyers to Bird & Bird

  Aug 31 2011 Hogan Lovells in Germany has seen further departures in what is turning into a major talent leak. The most recent departure sees a team of 13 Hamburg-based media... more

• NZ employment law firm joins global alliance with L&E Global

  Aug 30 2011 New Zealand employment law firm Swarbrick Beck Mackinnon has joined the international employment law alliance L&E Global, joining seven other firms from Europe and the... more

• German firm Graf von Westphalen makes joint venture with Turkish firm

  Aug 23 2011 German firm Graf von Westphalen is set to open an office in Istanbul after negotiating a joint venture arrangement with Turkish firm GSI Meridian. “The joint... more

• Mayer Brown reconfigures German practice around Düsseldorf

  Aug 19 2011 Mayer Brown has announced plans to close its Berlin and Cologne offices, shifting their operations to a new office in Düesseldorf, which is set to open at the start of... more

• Hogan Lovells hires 5-strong team from Broich Bezzenberger in Berlin

  Jul 21 2011 Hogan Lovells has boosted its German practice with the hire of five corporate lawyers from Broich Bezzenberger. The team includes partners Karin Arnold and Thomas... more

• Osborne Clarke boosts German office with hire from Geyr Hintz

  Jul 13 2011 Osborne Clarke has boosted its German office with the hire of insurance partner Bettina Plaßmann-Robertz from Geyr Hintz & Partners. Plaßmann-Robertz will work... more

• Jones Day boosts German tech and media practice with Hogan Lovells hires

  Jun 21 2011 Jones Day has bolstered its German technology and media practice with the hire of a veteran intellectual property partner from Hogan Lovells, Wolfgang Buchner. Buchner... more

• Bird & Bird to launch in Hamburg

  Apr 19 2011 Bird & Bird is set to launch an office in Hamburg after hiring a six-member team from Hamburg boutique firm Recore Business Lawyers. The office will be led by... more

• Eversheds makes up 22 partners globally

  Apr 13 2011 Eversheds has announced the promotion of 22 lawyers to its partnership in its annual promotions round, up from 19 last year but still significantly less than the 32... more

• A&O hires banking and investments team from Norton Rose in Germany

  Mar 09 2011 Allen & Overy has boosted its German presence with the hire of a banking regulation and investment funds team from Norton Rose. The team is led by partner Frank... more

• The secret to UK firm Slaughter and May's success

  Feb 21 2011 Slaughter and May is among the most profitable law firms in London, paying its 126 partners an average of £1.84m for their efforts despite posting sales at £439.5m,... more

• Alliance for German firm Heuking and Brazilian firm Veirano

  Feb 11 2011 German firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek has announced the formation of an alliance with Brazilian firm Veirano Advogados. The non-exclusive alliance will allow the... more

• India: Jethmalani defends Dr. Binayak Sen and CM Yeddyurappa

  Jan 25 2011 Senior Advocate and noted legal luminary Ram Jethmalani is having a field day. Jethmalani is defending Dr. Binayak Sen in the Chattisgarh High Court today, and on the... more

• Indian Supreme Court: Black Money is theft of national money

  Jan 25 2011 The Supreme Court is taking no excuse for stashing black money abroad and wants answers from the Government. A Supreme Court Bench comprising of Justices B.... more

• Orrick acquires Munich branch of Holme Roberts & Owen

  Jan 11 2011 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has acquired the Munich branch of US firm Holme Roberts & Owen. The acquisition marks the end of Holme Roberts & Owen’s German presence,... more

• Bayer goes down the wrong road on Indian patent protection litigation

  Dec 06 2010 The Supreme Court has dismissed German drug-maker Bayer’s appeal against the Delhi High Court’s decision to dismiss their suit Mumbai based Cipla, whom Bayer claims is... more

• Redundancy time: Hogan lovells, Barlow Lyde & Gilbert and Osborne Clarke

  Nov 22 2010 The London tax practice at Hogan Lovells has launched a redundancy consultation, with four associate positions at risk. This round of redundancies comes after the firm... more

• Allen & Overy elect new management committee for global tax practice

  Nov 10 2010 Allen & Overy has announced the election of a new global head of tax. German partner Gottfried Breuninger will lead the tax management committee, assisted by two... more

• Bird & Bird loses 5-lawyer Paris IT team to DLA Piper

  Oct 27 2010 DLA Piper has boosted its Paris IT practice with the hire of a five-strong team of lawyers Bird & Bird. The team is led by Bird & Bird's international IT co-head... more

• Freshfields hires new COO from Hogan Lovells

  Oct 15 2010 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired Axel Koelsch as its new chief operating officer for Germany and Austria. Koelsch – who joins the firm from Hogan Lovells –... more

• Reed Smith set to launch commercial and corporate litigation practice in Munich

  Oct 12 2010 Reed Smith is set to launch its commercial and corporate litigation practice in Munich after the hire of Oliver Rathje from Görling Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH.... more

• Head of German banking practice at Hogan Lovells jumps ship

  Sep 28 2010 Hogan Lovells has lost its head of German banking practice to German independent firm Noerr. Olaf Grabowski will join Noerr’s corporate finance practice as a... more

• Cleary and Freshfields take lead on €9.8bn Deutsche Bank deal

  Sep 17 2010 Deutsche Bank has called upon Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton to advise on its project of raising €9.8 billion to bolster the balance sheet and complete the proposed... more

• SJ Berwin boosts Munich IP practice with Howrey hire

  Sep 15 2010 SJ Berwin is set to boost its Munich intellectual property practice with the hire of Michael Knospe of Howrey. Knospe said: "SJ Berwin has a great IP practice in... more

• Dechert hires alternative investment expert from SJ Berwin

  Sep 01 2010 Dechert has announced the hire of partner Achim Pütz, the former head of German financial markets at SJ Berwin. Pütz will join the firm’s Munich office, and is... more

• Freshfields real estate team strikes out on its own

  Aug 13 2010 A team of lawyers from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is set to leave the firm’s Hamburg office to launch an independent firm. The departing team is led by partner... more

• Baker & McKenzie loses Frankfurt anti-trust team

  Jul 20 2010 The Frankfurt antitrust practice at Baker & McKenzie will take a blow as a team of partners leave the firm to launch a new competition boutique called Commeo. The... more

• Howrey set to launch office in Düsseldorf

  Jul 12 2010 US firm Howrey is set to launch an office in Düsseldorf hiring partner Christoph Lenz from one of Germany’s top IP boutiques. Lenz leaves his post as head of the... more

• German firm Graf von Westphalen loses Cologne and Freiburg offices

  Jul 05 2010 German firm Graf von Westphalen has seen a major split, with the Cologne and Freiburg offices separating from the firm. The group of 50 lawyers, including 25 partners... more

• Clifford Chance and Freshfields appoint new German leadership

  Jun 28 2010 Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have both appointed new leaders for their German practices. Freshfields has elected Klaus-Stefan Hohenstatt as... more

• Freshfields and Arnold & Porter advise on $3.8 billion chemicals deal

  Jun 24 2010 The world's largest chemical company – the Germany company BASF – has agreed to acquire Cognis Holding GmbH, a German producer of food and cosmetics ingredients, in a... more

• Germany's Hengeler Mueller elects new managing partners

  Jun 22 2010 Hengeler Mueller has elected two new co-managing partners, Daniela Favoccia, from the Frankfurt office and Matthias Hentzen based out of Düsseldorf. They will replace... more

• Watson Farley & Williams hires partner from Weil Gotshal & Manges

  Jun 17 2010 UK firm Watson Farley & Williams has given a boost to its Munich office with the hire of Dirk Janssen, formerly the Frankfurt head of corporate and M&A at Weil Gotshal... more

• Clifford Chance advises on sale of Sony Center in Berlin

  Jun 04 2010 Clifford Chance advised The John Buck Company on the sale of the Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin to the National Pension Service of Korea (NPS). The... more

• Salans advises Chinese real estate developer Euro Asia on its IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange

  May 27 2010 Since today shares in Euro Asia Premier Real Estate Company Limited (“Euro Asia”) are being traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Euro Asia was advised by Salans on... more

• Milbank hires partner from SJ Berwin to launch EU antitrust practice

  May 19 2010 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has secured the services of Alexander Rinne, former German head of EU and competition at SJ Berwin. Rinne is set to launch Milbank’s new... more

• Taylor Wessing promotes 12 to partnership

  May 18 2010 Taylor Wessing has promoted 12 lawyers to the partnership in its annual round of promotions, with the firm’s German offices receiving the majority of the new... more

• Norton Rose promotes 23 to counsel

  May 17 2010 Norton Rose has promoted 23 lawyers to counsel in the firm’s first round of counsel promotions since the merger with Australia's Deacons. Of the 23, five lawyers have... more

• Linklaters names new MP of Emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa practice

  Apr 27 2010 Linklaters has announced the appointment of the new managing partner of the firm's Emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa (EEMEA) practice – India chief Sandeep... more

• Freshfiields and Herbert Smith lead £1.59bn Deutsche Bahn - Arriva deal

  Apr 22 2010 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Herbert Smith have scored key roles advising on the £1.59bn acquisition by Deutsche Bahn of European public transport services... more

• Eversheds taps 19 lawyers for partnership

  Apr 20 2010 Eversheds has promoted 19 lawyers to the partnership in its annual promotions round – a marked drop from last year’s round, when 32 lawyers were made up. The firm's... more

• SJ Berwin promotes seven to partnership

  Apr 20 2010 SJ Berwin has tapped seven associates for promotion to the partnership in the annual promotions round. The figure is slightly higher than last year, when six new... more

• Reed Smith hires seven lawyers to expand Paris employment practice

  Apr 14 2010 Reed Smith has drastically expanded its Paris employment practice with the addition of seven attorneys from French firm Courtois Lebel. The group is led by partners... more

• Hogan & Hartson's Geneva office jumps ship ahead of merger with Lovells

  Apr 08 2010 The Geneva office of Hogan & Hartson has abandoned ship ahead of the merger with Lovells, opting instead to join with US firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. The... more

• Noerr boosts intellectual property practice with new partner hire

  Mar 31 2010 German firm Noerr has hired former Bird & Bird partner Ralph Nack. Nack spent six years as a senior counsel in Bird & Bird’s IP practice, and will make the move... more

• Linklaters chooses a new German chief

  Mar 25 2010 Carl-Peter Feick – a partner at the Linklaters since 2001 who led the banking and capital markets practice since 2004 – has been elected the new head of the firm's... more

• Hogan & Hartson's Berlin office splinters ahead of merger with Lovells

  Mar 23 2010 As the 1 May launch date for mega firm Hogan Lovells draws closer, Hogan & Hartson's Berlin office has split in two. Eighteen partners have decided to break away to... more

• Kirkland & Ellis takes lead role in $5 billion pharma deal

  Mar 19 2010 Kirkland & Ellis has scored a lead role in the $5 billion acquisition by Teva Pharmaceuticals of German generic drug manufacturer Ratiopharm. The Kirkland team will be... more

• Olswang promotes two associates to partnership

  Mar 18 2010 Olswang has announced the promotion of two associates to the partnership in the 2010 round. The same number were inducted into the partnership in 2009, down from 10... more

• Norton Rose hires Freshfields partner Oliver Sutter

  Mar 12 2010 Norton Rose has boosted the banking practice in its Frankfurt office by hiring Oliver Sutter, a partner from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Norton Rose have also... more

• Skadden, Cravath lead on Merck's $7.2bn Millipore acquisition

  Mar 01 2010 German pharmaceutical giant Merck KGaA said Sunday it will buy Millipore, an American provider of purifiers and filters for biotechnology laboratories, for about $7.2... more

• Quinn Emanuel hires Allen & Overy team for Germany launch

  Feb 24 2010 US litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges will launch in Germany with the hire of Marcus Grosch, German litigation partner at Allen & Overy. Grosch... more

• Eversheds raid forces Hammonds to close Munich base

  Feb 24 2010 Hammonds will close its Munich office following last year's departure of a five-lawyer team to Eversheds. Hammonds will enter into a three-year referral... more

• Ex-Hengeler partner Grobecker quits Milbank after just ten days

  Jan 12 2010 Just ten days after he started work as a new partner of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCoy, former Hengeler Mueller partner Wolfgang Grobecker has already resigned from... more

• Summer School on European Business Law - Registration for 2010 started...

  Jan 11 2010 The Registration for this year's Summer School on European Business Law in Duesseldorf (Germany) started. The Summer School on European Business Law is a joint... more

• Salans hires Ashurst restructuring partner Dietmar Schulz

  Jan 08 2010 Salans LLP has hired Ashurst restructuring and finance partner Dietmar Schulz as a partner in its Frankfurt office. Schulz will add to Salans’ existing corporate... more

• Milbank seals hire of corporate partner from Slaughters' German ally

  Jan 06 2010 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has boosted its Munich office with the hire of a partner from Slaughter and May's German ally Hengeler Mueller. Corporate partner... more

• Freshfields, Simmons, Hengeler lead on Springer Media sale

  Dec 14 2009 Swedish private equity firm EQT and the Singapore Government's GIC are buying Springer Science and Business Media for up to €2.2bn, allowing an exit for the two UK... more

• SJ Berwin corporate partner quits for Germany spin-off firm

  Dec 02 2009 SJ Berwin is set to lose a partner in Germany as corporate specialist Joerg Windt leaves the firm to join spin-off firm RoosLegal. RoosLegal was set up earlier this... more

• Salans snares employment law team from Beiten Burkhardt

  Nov 24 2009 Salans is expanding its employment practice in Berlin with the hire of eight lawyers from German rival Beiten Burkhardt. The employment law team includes four... more

• Beiten Burkhardt promotes 15 to partnership

  Nov 23 2009 Germany's Beiten Burkhardt has promoted 15 lawyers to salaried partner status and a further three have entered the equity in the firm’s latest round of promotions. more

• Ropes & Gray gains early Euro boost with role on €3.5bn Liberty takeover

  Nov 14 2009 Ropes & Gray's newly-launched City practice has secured a trophy mandate after being instructed to advise cable group Liberty Global on deal finance for its €3.5bn... more

• Former Linklaters Germany chief quits firm to set up consultancy

  Nov 13 2009 Linklaters' former Germany managing partner Markus Hartung is leaving to set up his own consultancy firm. Hartung managed the magic circle firm's German operations... more

• Freshfields makes up six to counsel rank in latest promotions round

  Oct 24 2009 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has promoted six lawyers to counsel in the firm's latest round of appointments. The magic circle firm, which has two rounds of... more

• Hammonds seeks German patents tie-up following double defection in Munich

  Oct 21 2009 Hammonds is in talks with German firm Gulde Hengelhaupt Ziebig & Schneider about setting up a patent prosecution referral relationship following the departure of two... more

• Allen & Overy ordered to re-employ German associate

  Sep 29 2009 Allen & Overy has been ordered to rehire an associate in Frankfurt who had been laid off earlier this year. A German labour court ruled that the dismissal did not... more

• Allen & Overy loses corporate star Rolf Koerfer to Oppenhoff

  Sep 22 2009 Allen & Overy corporate heavyweight Rolf Koerfer, who had been serving as chairman of German car parts company Continental recently, has left the firm to become a... more

• Clifford Chance hires energy industry veteran Jürgen Kroneberg

  Sep 16 2009 Dr. Jürgen Kroneberg, former member of the management board of RWE Energy AG, will join the magic circle firm's Düsseldorf office as 'of counsel'. Kroneberg held... more

• Facebook and StudiVZ reach settlement in plagiarism dispute

  Sep 11 2009 Facebook and German social network operator StudiVZ have reached a settlement in the alleged plagiarism case, with the StudiVZ paying Facebook an undisclosed sum as... more

• Clifford Chance, Norton Rose advise on T-Mobile/Orange UK merger

  Sep 09 2009 Clifford Chance and Norton Rose are advising on the potential tie-up of T-Mobile UK and Orange UK in a deal that would create the largest mobile phone operator in the UK. more

• French bank Calyon seeks $1.68 bn damages from German IKB AG

  Aug 26 2009 French investment bank Calyon is is seeking more than $1.68 billion in damages from Germany's KB Deutsche Industriebank AG in the High Court of Justice in London, in... more

• Allen & Overy, Linklaters lead on €12bn Schaeffler debt restructuring

  Aug 21 2009 Allen & Overy and Linklaters have taken key roles on the €12bn debt restructuring of German ball-bearing manufacturer Schaeffler, clearing the way for the company to... more

• Allen & Overy sued by former Frankfurt associate

  Aug 17 2009 Allen & Overy confirmed that at least one former associate in Germany still has a case pending against the firm, with the unfair dismissal dispute relating to... more

• DLA Piper hires corporate crime team from Clifford Chance

  Aug 14 2009 DLA Piper has hired a three-lawyer corporate crime team from Clifford Chance in Frankfurt, including partner Jürgen Taschke and two associates, reports legalweek.... more

• Allen & Overy partner Koerfer to step down as Conti chairman

  Aug 13 2009 Rolf Koerfer, chairman of German car-component maker Continental AG ('Conti'), will step down from his position once the company has found a replacement as well as a... more

• German ministry outsources legislation to Linklaters

  Aug 13 2009 Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the head of the German Economics Ministry, faces tough criticism for hiring international law firm Linklaters to draft key legislation for... more

• Simmons hires German private equity expert Jan Wildberger

  Aug 10 2009 Simmons & Simmons has bolstered its Frankfurt office with the addition of Jan Wildberger, founding partner of German private equity boutique Haarmann. more

• Clifford Chance, Freshfields, Hengeler Mueller advise on VW-Porsche merger

  Jul 28 2009 Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Germany's corporate powerhouse Hengeler Mueller have won key roles on the merger of German carmakers Volkswagen AG... more

• Deutsche Bank detectives tried to place spy at German law firm

  Jul 23 2009 A private security firm hired by Deutsche Bank AG tried to place an intern at Munich-based law firm Bub Gauweiler & Partner to gather information about German media... more

• Squire Sanders hires Faegre trio in Frankfurt

  Jul 22 2009 Squire Sanders & Dempsey has strengthened its Frankfurt practice with a three-lawyer team from Faegre & Benson. Faegre corporate partner Karl Walter, banking... more

• Horst Piepenburg resigns as Arcandor insolvency administrator

  Jul 17 2009 Horst Piepenburg, member of the insolvency administrator team of Arcandor AG and fully authorized representative of the German-based retail and tourism holding,... more

• Facebook loses lawsuit against German clone StudiVZ

  Jun 17 2009 Facebook’s legal challenge to shut down its German rival StudiVZ has failed after a Cologne court rejected the social networking site’s argument that StudiVZ copied... more

• Davis Polk to close Frankfurt office

  Jun 11 2009 Davis Polk & Wardwell will close its German office in Frankfurt as partner Patrick Kenadjian retires at the end of August. According to managing partner John... more

• Mayer Brown sued for alleged negligence

  Jun 09 2009 The insolvency administrator for Germany aviation company Thielert AG is suing Mayer Brown in Texas state district court in Houston, seeking $10 million in damages for... more

• Freshfields loses 11-lawyer real estate team to Olswang

  Mar 27 2009 Christian Schede and Martin Wiemann, two real estate lawyers and long-standing Freshfields partners, will join UK law firm Olswang in Berlin bringing along a team of... more

• Squire Sanders expands Sino-German practice

  Feb 10 2009 US law firm Squire, Sanders & Dempsey has added veteran German lawyer Rainer Burkardt to its China practice. Burkardt was the founder and head of Beiten Burkardt's... more

• Allen & Overy partner Koerfer to become chairman of Conti

  Jan 26 2009 Rolf Koerfer, Allen & Overy partner in Germany, will become chairman of the board at German tyre manufacturer and car parts maker Continental AG, which was taken over... more

• Oppenhoff enhances international profile with Johnson deal

  Jan 09 2009 German independent Oppenhoff & Partner has continued to develop its international profile by instructing NYSE-listed business Johnson Controls on its purchase of... more

• Gleiss Lutz pulls out of Eastern Europe and expands in Germany

  Dec 05 2008 Gleiss Lutz has revealed plans to open in Düsseldorf and a new partner hire in Frankfurt as the firm reinforces its domestic German practice following the withdrawal... more