Five years after establishment, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s thriving French Desk is reaping the rewards of the hard work of its multilingual, 15-member team. Leaders League spoke to...

US-based Gentherm, a global company offering thermal management and pneumatic comfort technologies for the automotive industry, has acquired Alfmeier Präzision SE, a German company...

Mexican cement company Cemex has announced the completion of the acquisition of a 53% stake in German aggregates company ProStein.

Attorney-at-Law and certified IP specialist at Maiwald, Christian Meyer, explains how the new claim for compensation, based on the Directive (EU) 2019/2161 of 27 November 2019 on c...

Chicago, USA and Nuremberg, Germany – July 1, 2022 – Global information services firms NielsenIQ and GfK are to merge, creating new capabilities in the consumer and retail measurem...

German practice of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner grows to 60 lawyers as firm targets further expansion in this key market.

A leading German IP and pharma-law boutique since 1959, Preu Bohlig has offices in Munich, Düsseldorf, Berlin and Hamburg, as well as a branch in Paris. In 2021, Preu Bohlig upgrad...

The firm just announced that Dr. Nico Abel is joining the firm’s German Corporate/M&A practice.

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is set to open its fifth office in Germany - this time in Berlin. Marcus Grosch, who opened the firm's first German office in Mannheim in 2010...

The US-headquartered firm's Munich office welcomes a new Magic Circle partner to its tax team.

Access to data is the key to success in automobile industry. Thomas G. Funke, co-head of the international competition practice at Osborne Clarke, and Elisabeth Macher, counsel in ...

PwC Legal has expanded its Berlin dispute resolution and litigation division by hiring a new senior manager, Dr. Anne Grunwald.

Pusch Wahlig Munich, which specialises in employment law, is gaining an entire team from Staudacher Annuß as of July 2022. The employment law specialist Prof. Dr. Georg Annuß (53) ...

24 February 2022 in Düsseldorf, ARQIS has announced to have advised ITOCHU Corporation on the sale of its subsidiary I.C. Autohandel Beteiligungen GmbH (ICAB) to CT Tewes GmbH.

Volkswagen Chief Legal Officer Manfred Döss stepped down on February 1st to join the German car-manufacturer’s executive board. Succeeding Döss is Philip Haarmann, former head of c...

Deutsche Börse Group has acquired Luxembourg-based fund data management and reporting solutions company Kneip.

Americans driving prestige European sportscars is nothing new, but Volkswagon's decision to hand the keys to Porsche’s IPO to a quartet of US banks has raised eyebrows in Europe’s ...

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is establishing a team in Germany to tackle large-scale mass claims litigation in Europe.

The new year will see a changing of the guard at Noerr, with the appointment of a host of new practice heads and one practice group being split into two.

KPMG Law’s German operation has launched a pilot recruitment programme targeting junior talent. Christened ‘recruitment hubs’, it aims to identify and bring in talent from firms in...

In a move that extends its footprint in continental Europe, UK firm Addleshaw Goddard has brought its number of offices worldwide to 17, with new openings in Luxembourg and Germany...

GFJ ESG Acquisition I SE (“GFJ”), a Luxembourgish special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), has agreed to combine with tado GmbH (“tado”), a European market leader for intelligen...

Europe’s largest economy, Germany, is facing its steepest recession since World War Two, with a forecasted contraction of 6% this year. In order to restore the economy to pre-coron...

Angela Merkel — the European Union’s longest serving current head of state — is set to step down as chancellor in 2021 having ruled out running for a fifth term next year as a Chan...

Earlier this week, the German government announced the country’s first green bonds, to be issued in September.

German defense supplier Hensoldt plans to list its shares on theFrankfurt stock exchange, becoming one of the first companies to embark on an initial public offering in Europe’s la...

Olaf Otting, head of public law group and Ulrich Baumgartner, Head of Data Protection announced they're leaving Allen &Overy Germany to set up their own boutiques.

Leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, Wipro Limited, plans to set up a digital innovation hub in Dusseldorf.

Europe's biggest economy plans reform to reduce bankruptcies fillings.

The main rating agencies have again this year accorded triple A status to Luxembourg and Germany, confirming the soundness and stability of each’s economy.

Samsung Pay and Splitpay to be launched in Germany by Solarisbank.

Compliance specialist Olaf Schneider has joined Hogan Lovells as partner in its compliance & investigations practice.

As a result of Brexit, the bank has announced the transfer of about €200 billion in assets from London to Frankfurt.

PWC Legal’s German public sector lawyers leave the firm.

Partners Bernd Borgmann and Eva Einfeldt have left DLA Piper to join DWF.

Twenty-seventeen was a banner year for German startups. Both the volume and the number of transactions rose to record levels: investment increased by 88% from €2.3 to €4.3 billion,...

After a turbulent summer which saw Nestlé shaken up by American activist investors Third Point, more European companies are now attracting interest, with Swiss chemicals company Cl...

Hassan Safer-Tebbi, Managing Director & CEO, Siemens Healthcare France, shares his perspective on innovation in healthcare industry.

Siemens is set to list its medical solutions unit, Siemens Healthineers, on the Deutsche Börse in Frankfurt. The listing is expected to be Germany’s biggest since Deutsche Telekom’...

Allianz, Europe’s leading insurer and principal shareholder of Euler Hermes, has announced the acquisition of the remaining 11.34% of shares in the French credit insurance company.

Since becoming CEO in 2003, Daniel Hager has not only more than doubled the group's turnover in a slow growing industry (electrical installation manufacturing), but also dynamized ...

In 2013, Kai Engelhardt established a new corporate venture-capital unit within Mahle. The unit focuses on companies offering technology which either strengthens Mahle’s core busin...

According to investment bank GCA Altium’s newly released MidCapMonitor report, in 2017 the German mid-cap LBO market crossed the 100 transactions threshold for the first time ever....

Siemens, Germany’s largest industrial manufacturing company and Alstom, the French high-speed train manufacturer, have agreed to merge rail operations in the face of increasing com...

Leading global investment firm KKR has announced the opening of a new office in Frankfurt, its sixth European branch.

Europe’s largest software group announced on January 30th its biggest acquisition for three years, buying Callidus Software, a company providing cloud-based Lead to Money (Quote-to...

After having served as BMW group vice president for over a decade and heading up BMW’s i8 vehicle program, Carsten Breitfeld left to set up Byton in 2016, with Daniel Kirchert, fo...

Austrian fintech Bitpanda is expanding its product portfolio to include exchange-traded cryptocurrencies.

Falk Müller-Veerse, partner of Bryan, Garnier & Co (Germany), decodes the German venture market of 2017 and predicts the trends for the future.

Norton Rose Fulbright has expanded its real estate practice in Germany with the addition of partner Oliver Beyer, effective May 2nd. Beyer and his team join from Simmons & Simm...

Schalast has announced the expansion of its Stuttgart office, with the integration of the LichtensteinKörner law firm, effective October 1st 2022. Since its foundation in Stuttga...

The Düsseldorf office of Heuking has its latest member: As of January 17th, Isabella Sommer-Zhang joins a successful patent team, led by partner Dr Anton Horn, as AI European Paten...