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Dusseldorf


Dusseldorf is not only home to global players. It is also gateway to the industrial Rhine-Ruhr region with many other DAX-30 companies. The Cologne area – amongst other things a center for insurance and media companies - is just half an hour away.

Moreover Dusseldorf is domicile of a District Court and a Court of Appeals, which are by far the most sought-after courts for patent litigation in Europe. More cases are dealt with here than at all other courts of Europe combined. Accordingly we focus on corporate, finance and patent work as well as on the insurance and banking sector. Generally we offer you advice in the following areas:
  • antitrust and public procurement
  • banking, capital markets, finance, financial services
  • corporate/M&A
  • employment
  • infrastructure and industrial plant projects
  • intellectual property, copyright, competition
  • dispute resolution
  • real estate 
  • restructuring and insolvency
  • tax and accounting
  • technology media telecommunications.

Clients, who already rely on our service:

  • Party (confid.): Representation in Eon-Ruhrgas merger proceedings before the Federal Cartel Authority and the Düsseldorf Court of Appeal in the procedure to obtain minister approval.

  • Oviesse (Coin group): Purchase of 99 Kaufhalle department stores from Metro
    One of the world´s leading pharmaceutical companies (confid.): Representation in DIS arbitration proceedings against a chemical company with regard to a war-ranty in a corporate acquisition.

  • Rosenthal AG: Inclusion of employees in the global stock option programme of the parent company Waterford Wedgwood plc.

  • Foreign investor (confid.): Due diligence in bidding procedure for German insur-ance group and proposal of an acquisition structure.

  • US computer manufacturer (confid.): Representation in nine parallel patent in-fringement proceedings relating to DVD technology.

  • Largest owner and operator of holiday homes in Europe: Ongoing advice on German property-law issues.
    German public law insurance group: Transformation into a joint stock corporation group.