The most direct route for cost effective excellence across all stages of the deal. Globally and locally well connected.
“Deal Making Instead of Deal Breaking”
- this appraisal of the CEO/Co-Owner of a large client has become our slogan (large family-owned business in the international book whole...sale, production and logistics industry).
"Driven by Passion. Backed by Knowledge with a focus on Cross-Border Business."
Scout in the jungle of legal information and conflicting norms. Willing to go above and beyond in the name of efficiency for the client, with the responsiveness of a boutique firm and the expertise of a tier 1 firm.
Fighting back against the outdated and tired idea that you need a global firm to handle global matters.
We act as a team, with the spirit of a sailing crew.
The issue counts. Our focus always lays on the best solution - not the seniority of who came up with it. Experience matters, but sometimes the youngest in the team has the smartest idea.
We integrate creative and new ideas and techniques such as Simplified Global Contracting and Bridge Building Law.
Open doors. Daily interaction at brainstorming corners in the office. Weekly jour fixe to compare notes and to share knowledge.
Responsiveness, speed and reliability are key.
A wholistic approach to create value and manage risks. This includes contracting just as much as resolving arbitration and disputes.
Including all relevant business law and business products: intelligent contracting, M&A, restructuring, commercial and corporate housekeeping, antitrust, compliance, IP, data protection, employment, litigation, arbitration and international litigation management.
Our deep comparative legal and intercultural knowledge provides an underlying basis to manage all kinds of cross-border legal risks and issues.
Substantial track record of both negotiations and arbitrations about (up to) multi-billion-USD issues (far more than we would communicate publicly).
We apply the same approach, quality and effectiveness regardless of whether our client is a start-up, a billion-dollar company or an international organization.
The client decides: 80/20 rule or 100% - you adapt the approach to what your internal client wants under the circumstances of the case and what the deal needs to get done, not what will bill the most.
Using extraordinary thinking to generate extraordinary results. Thus we e.g. avoided the entire e-discovery in a large-scale German-Chinese-US arbitration in China by applying a different approach, which saved a full year of legal battle (and fees billed) but still achieved the desired outcome.
Founded in 1996 as a spin-off of a large law.
For close to 30 years, we listen to clients and grow with their needs (“The client is king”).
26 lawyers with substantial international experience - combining the expertise of approx. 350 years of experience (and over 150 publications) at partner-level.
The publications include German standard books (civil law, antitrust, private international law, international contracting, international litigation, international arbitration, IT), as well as a standard English book on international commercial contract law (UNIDROIT Principles).
All major industries are covered with substantial track records (Body & Health, Brick & Mortar, Data & Solution, Energy & Infrastructure, Eat & Drink, Transport & Mobility, Money & Investment, Plants & Supply, Shop & Deliver).
Fluent in the global legal world, including private international law, comparative law, litigation and arbitration management.
· Substantial pro bono work.
Legal training e.g. at universities.
Local projects, including construction of an elderly home in Hamburg.
International projects, e.g. legal support to rescuing refugees in the Mediterranean Sea; recognized by the alternative Nobel prize. |