In a bid to offer more flexible career options for associates, Linklaters is trialling an alternative career track which would see associates take a pay cut for a reduced working week in its German offices. Continue reading “Linklaters trials fixed-hours week for German associates”
US firms K&L Gates, Covington & Burling and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe are the latest to take on partners from the beleaguered European practice of King & Wood Mallesons (KWM). Continue reading “KWM latest: K&L Gates and Orrick take Munich partners as Covington poised to take top litigator Pollack and team”
Transatlantic firm Squire Patton Boggs has recruited three litigation and competition partners from US firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, including the firm’s former Frankfurt office head. Continue reading “Squires continues German growth with three-partner Frankfurt team from WilmerHale”
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has confirmed private equity (PE) partner Michael Bernhardt will join the firm’s corporate department in Frankfurt from Allen & Overy (A&O). Continue reading “Allen & Overy PE heavyweight Bernhardt joins Milbank in Frankfurt”
Clifford Chance (CC) has tapped King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) for its highly-regarded Germany head of funds Sonya Pauls.
Continue reading “Top KWM funds partner exits for Clifford Chance in Germany”
Olswang has seen a 11% drop in its turnover for the financial year 2015/16 with revenues tumbling by £14.2m to £112.5m, while firm’s profits per equity partner (PEP) remained steady at £490,000.
Continue reading “Olswang turnover drops 11% after Berlin ‘decoupling’”
German independents maintain elite status in a fiercely competitive market, despite the attention of some formidable global players.
‘Our market is one of the most competitive in the world,’ asserts Tobias Bürgers, co-managing partner of Noerr, Germany’s largest independent law firm with 427 fee-earners. In 2015, Noerr increased turnover by 5% to €207.7m.
‘Over the last eight years, we’ve had 70% revenue growth. We’ve outperformed the market proportionately, relative to other firms,’ he adds.
Three NRF laterals boost German practice
Dentons has targeted two more regions for European growth, launching an office in Munich alongside plans for a back office in Poland.
In a bid to boost its corporate offering in Europe, Dentons is launching its Munich office this summer with the recruit of three partners from Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF). Alexander von Bergwelt will serve as managing partner for the Munich office, and will be responsible for building and leading the new team. He specialises in corporate, private equity, restructuring and litigation.
Continue reading “Dentons opens in Munich and looks to Warsaw for back-office”
Shipping and insurance specialist Ince & Co has opened an office in Cologne with a team of four including two partners from CMS Hasche Sigle and German insurance practice Bach Langheid Dallmayr.
Dentons will launch an office in Munich this summer in a bid to strengthen its corporate offering with the recruit of three partners from Norton Rose Fulbright.
Continue reading “Dentons expands again, opening Munich office with Norton Rose team”
