Bird & Bird welcomes Jörg Paura as partner in its International Corporate Group. Jörg will join the Hamburg office on 1 April 2013, from Hogan Lovells. He brings along an experienced team of two Counsel: Daniel Weiss and Mirjam Rüve.

More >>

Watson, Farley & Williams (“WFW“), a leading international law firm, has advised Stadtwerke Lübeck, a municipal utility, on the legal and tax aspects of the acquisition of shares in a ground mounted 20 MWp solar farm in Thuringia, Germany. The solar farm will be operated jointly with another utility partner.

More >>

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP today announced that Andreas Kurtze has joined the Firm as a partner in McDermott’s recently opened Frankfurt, Germany office.

More >>

Wragge & Co has strengthened its international credentials with the appointment of Munich-based director Ina Gerstberger from Gerstenberg Rechtsanwälte. An expert in the life sciences and food & drink sectors, Ina specialises in delivering IP, regulatory and contractual advice to a global client base.

More >>

McDermott Will & Emery LLP today announced that Dr. Matthias Kampshoff has joined the Firm as a partner based in its Düsseldorf office. Dr. Kampshoff will provide McDermott’s Restructuring & Insolvency practice with extensive experience in German bankruptcy law, particularly as it relates to insolvent companies, their officers, shareholders, investors as well as bankruptcy administrators and creditors.

More >>

Global law firm White & Case LLP has represented China Development Bank Corporation in connection with the €553 million acquisition financing for Weichai Power Hong Kong International Development Co. Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Weichai Power Co. Ltd, for the acquisition of a stake in Germany’s KION Group. The transaction represents the largest direct investment by a Chinese group in Germany to date.

More >>

Salans’ Global Real Estate Group and European Restructuring, Reorganisation & Insolvency Practice Group have provided legal advice to ORCO-GSC on the refinancing of its outstanding multi-million Euro-loan with The Royal Bank of Scotland plc.

More >>

Watson, Farley & Williams (“WFW”), a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that it has appointed Ivana Mikešić as a new partner. Ivana is based in Frankfurt and WFW will open a new office in the city in January 2013.

More >>

International law firm Pinsent Masons has strengthened its practice in Germany with the arrival of two senior lawyers in its Munich office. Christian Lütkehaus arrives from Portelet, a boutique advisory and asset management firm with offices in Mumbai (India), Shanghai, Singapore and Zurich, co-founded by him in 1997. He will be joined by Dr. Holger Kessen, who was a partner at the Munich office of v. Boetticher Hasse Lohmann.

More >>

Jones Day’s Düsseldorf Office, opened in March 2012, continues its rapid growth with the addition of a Banking & Finance team led by Claudia Leyendecker. Ms. Leyendecker and her team join a number of other market-leading lawyers who have moved to Jones Day’s Düsseldorf Office in the past few months, including the transactional team of Dr. Ulrich Brauer, Dr. Kerstin Mast, and Dr. Ralf Recknagel; an employment law team led by Dr. Markus Kappenhagen; and an IP practice led by Kai Rüting. The team led by Ms. Leyendecker includes three additional attorneys with in-depth experience in regulatory and capital investment law: Mathias Raabe and Marc von Ammon, joining the Firm as European Counsel, and Markus Brusch.

More >>