International Corporate Finance

INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE FINANCE RANKINGS

GERMANY BEST LAW FIRMS

M&A - Large Cap

The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS

LEADING

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Andreas Fabritius, Stephan Waldhausen

Hengeler Mueller Hans-Jörg Ziegenhain, Maximilian Schiessl, Michael Hoffmann-Becking

EXCELLENT

1 Allen & Overy Hans-Christoph Ihrig, Birgit Reese, Astrid Krüger

Gleiss Lutz Christian Cascante

Linklaters Hans-Ulrich Wilsing

2 Baker & McKenzie Florian Kästle, Nikolaus Reinhuber, Florian Thamm

Clifford Chance Peter Dieners

CMS Hasche Sigle Maximillian Grub

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy Norbert Rieger, Martin Erhardt, Peter Nussbaum, Arndt Stengel

Noerr Alexander Ritvay, Alexander Hirsch, Christian Pleister, Gerald Reger

Schillling Zutt & Anschütz Jochem Reichert, Marc Löbbe

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Beiten Burkhardt Christof Aha, Maximilian Emanuel Elspas

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton Gabriele Apfelbacher

Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek Hans Gummert, Andreas Urban

Latham & Watkins Dirk Oberbracht, Henning Schneider

Luther Thomas Kuhnle

Oppenhoff & Partner Georg Maier-Reimer

P+P Pöllath+Partners Reinhard Pöllath, Matthias Bruse

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Bernd Mayer

Weil, Gotshal & Manges Gerhard Schmidt

White & Case Roger Kiem, Markus Hauptmann

RECOMMENDED

Jones Day Ansgar Rempp

Norton Rose Fulbright Frank Regelin

Sullivan & Cromwell Carsten Berrar

Christian Cascante

L eader:

Christian Cascante

E stablished:

1949

Track record: The corporate M&A team

has recently advised the US private equity

fund Lindsay Goldberg on its acquisition

of the Schur Flexibles Group as well as

Blackstone in the sale of its majority stake in

the “Meerwind” offshore wind farm, a global

Chinese energy company. The firm advised

Blackstone on all legal aspects of its invest-

ment in the wind farm since 2008.

Team & differentiation: With more than 70 lawy-

ers including 35 partners entirely dedicated to

corporate law, Gleiss Lutz is able to maintain

the necessary high-quality standards to com-

pete in the large-cap M&A market. Practice

Head Christian Cascante has long experience

handling cross-border deals and he is consi-

dered by peers as a rainmaker in the market.

GLEISS LUTZ:

AT THE FOREFRONT IN PRIVATE EQUITY DEALS

Jochem Reichert

L eader:

Jochem Reichert

E stablished:

1931

Track record: the firm advises, on a regular

basis, DAX-30 companies on transactional

corporate issues as well as others complex

corporate matters, and compliance-related

work continues to be a focus of the firm’s

practice. Notable clients include name such

as JM Group, Freudenberg, Commerzbank,

Deutsche Bahn, Dr. August Oetker.

Team & differentiation: The team of M&A atto-

rneys has extensive expertise in representa-

tion in disputes and litigation (especially in

so-called M&A litigation), whether in courts

or in arbitration. Peter Bauschatz recently

joined as partner to boost the tax depart-

ment. The firm has offices in Mannheim,

Frankfurt and Brussels.

SCHILLLING ZUTT & ANSCHÜTZ:

A SPECIALIST IN SOPHISTICATED TRANSACTIONS