The British company SigmaRoc has secured a deal worth approximately one billion euros to acquire the European lime business of Irish construction materials giant Cement Roadstone Holding (CRH). The transaction’s closing is slated for
Rhenus, a logistics giant, is expanding its portfolio with the acquisition of Setlog, a software provider. The central product of the Bochum-based company is a cloud-based software tool for supply chain management and corporate social
Anna Wolters-Höhne (pictured), previously associated with Bird & Bird, is making a return to patent litigation after a hiatus of two years. She has taken on the role of partner at Allen & Overy,
Esteemed procurement law expert Heiko Höfler (pictured) is bidding farewell to Oppenhoff & Partner. After a tenure of just over five years with the Hamburg-based firm, the 56-year-old will join PwC Legal in December
Famous pens and pencils manufacturer Faber-Castell has acquired the medium-sized competitor Robert E. Huber from Königsbach in Baden. With its 50 employees, Robert E. Huber, founded in 1935, produces writing instruments, products and accessories for brands
Former partner at White & Case, Hermann Melnikov (pictured), has joined the Frankfurt litigation boutique Schmitz & Partner, becoming the firm’s third partner (together with Bernd-Wilhelm Schmitz and Mirjam Escher). Schmitz & Partner is
Gleiss Lutz has appointed two new managing partners: Ralf Morshäuser and Johann Wagner (both pictured, respectively left and right). Current managing partners Michael Arnold and Alexander Schwarz will indeed end their duties after eight
The German office of UK law firm Addleshaw Goddard added a seven-people team of energy lawyers coming from EY Law. The team is led by Boris Scholtka (pictured), who headed EY Law’s German energy
We are in Hamburg this time, where the Executive Board and Supervisory Board of the city-owned Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) recommended that shareholders accept the takeover bid by the major shipping company Mediterranean
Austrian real estate investor René Benko is handing over the chairmanship of the board of Signa Holding to German restructuring expert Arndt Geiwitz of SGP Schneider Geiwitz & Partner, according to a press release from