Leading global law firm Mayer Brown has advised Citigroup Alternative Investments LLC in respect of its interests in Monterey Holding I Sarl, the parent company of Deutsche Annington, in relation to the IPO of Deutsche Annington, Germany’s largest residential landlord, on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

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Ashurst has advised Commerzbank, Germany’s second-biggest lender, on the sale by Hypothekenbank Frankfurt A.G. (formerly Eurohypo) of its UK commercial real estate portfolio to a US consortium comprised of certain Wells Fargo & Company entities and certain funds of private equity group Lone Star.

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Global law firm White & Case LLP has announced that it will strengthen its German tax practice with the addition of Dr. Bodo Bender as a partner in its Frankfurt office.

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Herbert Smith Freehills today announced that it has recruited Hans Thomas Kessler as its third partner to its recently opened Frankfurt office.

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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP announced today that Richard Kreindler will join the firm as a partner based in the Frankfurt office. Mr. Kreindler, currently a partner at Shearman & Sterling in Frankfurt, will be part of the firm’s international arbitration and litigation practice.

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Chadbourne & Parke acted as the key legal advisor to investment firm Yi-Ko Holding GmbH in its acquisition from Burger King Worldwide Inc. of its wholly-owned subsidiary Burger King GmbH and its 91 company-owned Burger King restaurants in Germany. As part of the transaction, Yi-Ko Holding GmbH agreed to develop new Burger King restaurants during the next five years and remodel an additional 57 Burger King restaurants during the next 18 months. Burger King is the second largest fast food hamburger restaurant chain in the world.

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Herbert Smith Freehills announced today that it has recruited Nico Abel as partner to its newly opened Frankfurt office.

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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that it will add four new partners with formidable experience in complex M&A and high stakes litigation to its German team, and will open a new office in Düsseldorf. The partners are recognized leaders in their respective fields, and the team brings substantial experience across a wide range of industries.

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Dentons Europe has appointed two new partners. Michael Graf has joined the firm’s German tax practice group and Robert Bastian has joined the German private equity group. They are based in the Frankfurt office.

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Dr. Lutz Englisch will join the firm’s Munich office as a partner. Englisch, who will continue his international mergers and acquisitions practice, was previously the Head of Corporate for Germany for Ashurst. Before that, he served as Head of the Corporate Legal M&A Group at Siemens AG.

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