Europe/Germany
Stephenson Harwood and Taylor Wessing eye merger
Partners reportedly set to vote by year-end on tie-up creating fully integrated European firm
Weil continues Germany push with Willkie partner hire
Financial regulatory expert David Jansen is US firm’s 11th partner in Germany since the end of 2025
German legal AI platform Noxtua raises more than €100m in Series C funding round
CMS and Dentons sell their stakes, with the proceeds to finance further European expansion
Class actions across borders: different regimes, common challenges
As collective actions evolve across jurisdictions, lawyers, funders and disputes specialists explore the common challenges shaping the future of mass claims
Fieldfisher hires medical cannabis expert to boost German life sciences practice
Franziska Katterbach joins in Frankfurt from Oppenhoff amid run of German hires
Osborne Clarke builds on European expansion with Luxembourg, Frankfurt office openings
Firm adds five partners from firms including Ogier, CMS and White & Case to spearhead office launches
Pinsent Masons adds IP partner duo in Germany from Vossius
Kai Rüting and Philipp Widera join firm in Düsseldorf
Quartet of firms steer Madison Air’s $5.6bn acquisition of German fan-maker ebm-papst
Paul Hastings, Kirkland & Ellis and Hengeler Mueller guide Madison Air as Milbank advises ebm-papst’s owner families
Fieldfisher launches Berlin dispute resolution practice with partner hire
Benny Wünschmann joins from commercial law firm Flick Gocke Schaumburg as Fieldfisher’s seventh partner in the German capital
K&L Gates absorbs nine-strong IP team in Munich from local boutique
Group significantly boosts US firm’s IP bench in one of Europe’s most important patent markets
Raft of law firms steer Uber’s $15bn bid for Delivery Hero
Freshfields and Wachtell lead for Uber as Sullivan & Cromwell guides Delivery Hero and Paul Weiss, Hengeler Mueller, Baker Botts and Gibson Dunn act for investment firm SSW
‘Information is becoming commoditised; judgement isn’t’: dealmakers debate impact of AI on cross-border M&A
Sullivan & Cromwell partners Frank Aquila and Jeremy Kutner explore how AI, regulation and geopolitics are reshaping global M&A with experts from 29 countries
Sullivan & Cromwell launches German litigation practice with Hengeler partner duo
Commercial disputes lawyers Philipp Hanfland and Maximilian Bülau join in Frankfurt as practice co-heads
McDermott hires investment funds partner from Linklaters in Frankfurt
German investment funds partner Olena Tokman will join McDermott after seven years at Linklaters
Kirkland, Paul Weiss, Linklaters advise on Volkswagen’s €7.4bn majority-stake sale of marine engine unit to Bain
Volkswagen sells 51% stake in marine engine-maker Everllence to US private equity firm Bain Capital
Freshfields continues Germany PE rebuild with senior Hengeler Mueller hire
Partner Daniel Möritz joins in Munich, continuing Freshfields’ hires and internal promotions in Germany after four senior PE partners defected to Latham & Watkins late last year
AI patent platform start-up DeepIP acquires German AI assistant PatentMaker
DeepIP is seeking to accelerate how AI shapes patent workflows across Europe
German energy business Uniper replaces GC with internal promotion
Tina Hinz is elevated to GC and chief compliance officer role, succeeding Marc Merrill
Dentons adds seven-lawyer disputes team from PwC Legal in Germany
Group joins in Berlin just a week after three corporate partners left Dentons’ Munich office for Reed Smith
Reed Smith grows in Germany with three-partner corporate team from Dentons
Partner trio join in Munich alongside three further lawyers to boost US firm’s transactions capabilities