The firm's second German office is based in Frankfurt, the finance capital of continental Europe with strong links to London, Paris, Warsaw, Moscow, the United States and Asia, as well as within the German marketplace itself.
The Frankfurt office works closely with the Berlin office to comprise a seamless German practice. The offices offer clients a broad array of legal services, including corporate/M&A, banking (including banking regulation law) and complex financings, insolvency and restructuring, real estate, telecoms, media & entertainment (TMT), public procurement, antitrust and trade, tax, employment, IP, IT, international dispute resolution and equipment leasing
The Frankfurt transactional team regularly conducts complex German and multi-jurisdictional transactions. The group has significant experience in cross-border deals in particular in the TMT and life science sectors. The group also advises on joint ventures, distressed M&A and restructuring. Clients include German and international blue chips, major international utility service providers, investment banks, private equity funds, and mid-sized (Mittelstand) companies. The Corporate/M&A practice is recommended by the The Legal 500 EMEA, 2009; 2010, and we are acknowledged as “a law firm appreciated for M&A” by JUVE 2009/2010.
Our German finance team has extensive experience advising German and international banks, export and loan underwriters, financial institutions, companies, local authorities, investors and sponsors on domestic and cross-border finance transactions. The group advises on the full range of finance issues from classic asset finance, debt financing and syndicated loans to complex cross-border finance transactions, restructuring and project financing. The Banking & Finance practice is ranked as a tier 2 firm for Asset Finance & Leasing, Aviation by Chambers Europe in 2010, and for Rail by Chambers Global in 2011.
Our tax team advises on German and international tax issues, including on structuring domestic and cross-border acquisitions, financings and refinancings, investment and corporate restructurings, joint ventures, closed-end funds, optimizing real estate transactions and asset management, and advising institutional investors on regulatory and tax issues relating to real estate investment structures.
Our German practice was recently ranked among the top 100 employers in Germany by Trendence 2010 and by Azur 2011 (affiliated magazine of JUVE, one of the leading German legal directories). In addition, the firm is ranked in JUVE, Chambers and Legal 500 for M&A, Media, Telecommunications, Public Procurement, Real Estate, Public Law and Banking and Finance. The German practice was also awarded “Law Firm of the Year for Public Procurement 2010”, “Law Firm of the Year for Media 2009” and “Law Firm of the Year for Telecommunications 2009” by JUVE.
Awarded from JUVE as "law firm of the year for public procurement" 2010.
Further information with a list of the awarded law firms can be found here.
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