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Gowling WLG adds Taylor Wessing partner quartet for Frankfurt launch as it targets Europe growth

Anglo-Canadian firm secures capital markets, M&A, PE and real estate partners to launch third German office

Morgan Lewis adds 20-strong Shearman & Sterling team for Munich launch

As talks with Hogan Lovells are abandoned, Shearman suffers latest exits from European network

MoFo and Freshfields advise on Fujitsu’s €432m takeover of Germany's GK Software

Deal features undertaking by GK Software's founders to sell their shareholdings

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Spencer West enters three new European markets

Fast-growing UK alternative law firm sets up shop in Germany, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands

US and UK retain top spots in global IP index amid claims global drive to improve protection may be stagnating

The scores of 28 countries remain unchanged in International Intellectual Property (IP) index from the US Chamber of Commerce

'The private client landscape is changing faster than ever' – The Global Legal Post launches private client law guide

Edited by Katten’s Joshua Rubenstein, Law Over Borders' comparative guide will explore post-Covid climate for high-net-worth individuals

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Countdown begins as Germany ratifies Unified Patent Court agreement

Biggest development in European IP law for decades will see new court open on 1 June

Kirkland & Ellis secures Clifford Chance partner to lead Germany restructuring team

Cristina Weidner joins Chicago giant in Munich just a few months after becoming head of UK firm’s Germany restructuring & insolvency practice

McDermott taps Noerr and Latham to expand German private equity team

Holger Ebersberger and Hanno Witt join as partners in Munich, having previously worked together at Linklaters

Linklaters, Latham, Orrick and Hengeler advise on €16bn Vodafone, GIP and KKR telecoms joint venture

Vodafone is expected to raise at least €3.2bn after selling part of its stake in German telecoms business Vantage Towers

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McDermott hires corporate partner duo from Reed Smith in Frankfurt

Rolf Hünermann and Phillip Schmidt join the firm’s German transactions practice group

Reed Smith names M&A lawyer as new Frankfurt managing partner in latest German shake-up

Appointment follows departure of previous Frankfurt MP for US rival McDermott Will & Emery and naming of new managing partner in Munich back in April

Kirkland & Ellis announces latest record partner promotions round

Bumper intake sees Chicago giant promote 193 to partnership, up from 151 last year

Host of top law firms advise on blockbuster Porsche IPO

Freshfields, Linklaters, Clifford Chance, Gleiss Lutz, White & Case and Sullivan & Cromwell included in line up

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Quinn Emanuel mourns untimely death of Hamburg managing partner

US law firm announces the death of antitrust partner, Nadine Herrmann, aged just 45

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King & Spalding adds partners in London, Paris and Frankfurt amid European transactional push

Atlanta firm secures senior laterals from Reed Smith, Bredin Pratt and Paul Hastings

Norton Rose Fulbright hires nine lawyers to open fourth German office in Düsseldorf

Newcomers hail from Eversheds Sutherland, Allen & Overy, Pinsent Masons and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Jones Day, Sullivan & Cromwell advise Bayer on 'landmark' arbitration ruling against BASF

ICC arbitration centred on M&A dispute involving assets Bayer had sold to BASF

Milbank hires equity capital markets trio from Clifford Chance in Frankfurt

Team is led by partner Philipp Klöckner as US firm seeks to grow its German ECM practice

Eversheds Sutherland secures PwC Legal's Germany head for Frankfurt launch

Office will be firm's fifth in Germany; more partners expected to join ahead of January opening

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