Global law firm Dentons has recruited Dr. Lars Kutzner and Dr. Florian Wiesner as partners in its new office in Dusseldorf, the Firm’s fourth location in Germany. Kutzner will bolster the cross-border compliance and white-collar offering of Dentons’ Public Policy and Regulation practice. Wiesner will strengthen the Firm’s well-established Competition and Antitrust team. Florian Wiesner will join Dentons in May from Clifford Chance. Lars Kutzner, who joined from Noerr effective 1 April, brings 15 years of experience in compliance and internal investigations. More >>

Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice with the addition of Murad Daghles as a partner in Düsseldorf. Daghles has more than ten years of experience and joins White & Case from Allen & Overy, where he was a partner. More >>

Global law firm Dentons has announced plans to open a new office in Düsseldorf with the recruitment of two new partners who bring well-respected capabilities in public procurement, EU state aid, trade and trade compliance, as well as employment law. This will be Dentons’ fourth office in Germany after Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich, offering clients extensive coverage of the country’s most important financial and industrial centers, as well as access to Europe’s most important region for foreign direct investment. More >>

International law firm Pinsent Masons has expanded its compliance team, appointing Dr Jochen Pörtge as partner. Dr Pörtge specialises in white-collar crime and will join Pinsent Masons’ office in Dusseldorf on 1 October 2018 from Clifford Chance. More >>

Eversheds Sutherland has boosted its corporate capability with new lateral Partner Maximilian Findeisen. Maximilian joins the global legal practice’s Dusseldorf office today (1 October 2018). He was previously at MKRG Mütze Korsch, and has worked for Hogan Lovells and Hengeler Mueller. More >>

Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Tobias Larisch will join the firm as a partner in the Düsseldorf office. Larisch’s practice focuses on advising leading German and international companies on a variety of complex public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and divestments, with a particular focus on the energy sector. He also counsels senior executives and boards on a variety of corporate governance matters, including complex regulatory and compliance issues. More >>

Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Nikolaos Paschos will join the firm as a partner in the Düsseldorf office. Paschos is among Germany’s most experienced M&A practitioners, with vast expertise advising multinational companies and boards on complex mergers and acquisitions, including public takeover and defense, and high-end corporate law, including group reorganizations and stock corporation law. He also has substantial experience advising on corporate governance matters, in particular on complex regulatory and compliance issues as well as special committee engagements. More >>

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery announced today that Alexa Ningelgen, PhD, will join the firm’s Regulatory Practice Group as partner in its Düsseldorf office. Joining Ms. Ningelegen in Düsseldorf will be Eva Schöneich, PhD. Ms. Schöneich will serve as counsel in the Firm’s Corporate Practice Group. The two lawyers represent the latest arrivals at McDermott’s growing Düsseldorf office. More >>

Mayer Brown today announced the arrival of Christoph Crützen as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property practice in Düsseldorf. He joins from Clifford Chance. More >>

International law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has announced another senior appointment in its fast-growing German practice. M&A specialist Christoph Nawroth will join the firm’s Düsseldorf office as a Corporate partner in its top-tier global M&A practice. More >>