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
The Munich office of McDermott Will & Emery has announced another addition: Matthias Weissinger (pictured) joined the US law firm as a partner in November. The 46-year-old financing specialist was previously a partner at Ashurst
ABB announced that Mathias Gaertner (pictured) has been appointed General Counsel and Company Secretary and a Member of the Executive Committee. He will join ABB in 2024 and succeed Natalia Shehadeh, who has held the position
Firms Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom are involved in Deutsche Bahn’s sale of Arriva to Miami-based infrastructure investor I Squared Capital. Arriva is the transport business of trains and
New partner for the law firm Advant Beiten based in Hamburg: he’s Oliver Korte (50), joined the firm in October and comes from SKW Schwarz, where he headed the commercial practice. At Advant Beiten, he
The initial public offering of the sandal manufacturer Birkenstock, which had been eagerly awaited for months, was initially unsuccessful in terms of the share price. On the first day of trading on Wall Street, the
