Dear friends and colleagues,
welcome to the first issue of ADVANT Beiten's International Briefing in 2024.
We are vigorously working on ADVANT-wide synergy to provide our clients and friends with the "best of both worlds": deep local market expertise combined with international vision and reach.
The recent example when the European ADVANT Alliance with its three law firms ADVANT Nctm (Italy), ADVANT Beiten (Germany) and ADVANT Altana (France) joined their forces to ensure the smooth European legal experience is a comprehensive legal advice to Cogne Acciai Speciali S.p.A. (CAS) on the acquisition of all shares in Mannesmann Stainless Tubes GmbH (MST) in a cross-border transaction. CAS, based in Aosta (Italy), is a 70% subsidiary of Walsin Lihwa Corporation (Walsin) from Taiwan. The ADVANT law firms advised CAS under the leadership of Italian partner Vittorio Noseda comprehensively across multiple jurisdictions and locations. ADVANT Beiten, led by partners Christian von Wistinghausen, Marion Frotscher and Tassilo Klesen, advised on all matters of German law. Please see our other deals in the respective section below.
Also, in this edition we would like to highlight publications created by the ADVANT law firms together, relying on our extensive joint matter experience to assist you or your clients with navigating complex and nuanced legal and commercial landscape of Europe.
To deliver our message across the Atlantic in January, February and March 2024 partners of the ADVANT firms visited New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Miami where they met representatives of the American law firms and corporates to establish new connections and explore business opportunities. Please connect with Gildas Robert (ADVANT Altana), Markus Ley, Hans-Josef Vogel (ADVANT Beiten) and Guido Fauda (ADVANT Nctm) during their ADVANT's Midwest US Roadshow of 15 – 19 April 2024 and see our other events in the respective section below.
We are also delighted to share some "local" news. On 16 March 2024 ADVANT Beiten has elected its new Management Committee to lead the firm for the next three years. In addition to re-elected Dusseldorf office Partner Guido Krüger, the partners have elected Munich office Partner Martin Fink, and Freiburg office Partner Barbara Mayer. Our fellow editor Barbara will be in particular responsible for international relationships of the firm. The Management Committee remains loyal to creating lasting value for our clients and teams and to continuing ADVANT efforts to solidify its position as a European legal industry leader.
At the turn of the year ADVANT Beiten's Corporate / M&A practice group grew by winning two Equity Partners: Eva Kreibohm (Berlin office) and Jan Eltzschig (Dusseldorf office). Eva's partnership is an important step towards strengthening and succession planning for our notary's office in Berlin. With Jan, we are gaining an established expert in the market who will work closely with our ADVANT partner law firms in this area.
Our Hamburg office has grown its team as well. We are welcoming Oliver Korte as a highly experienced colleague in the area of commercial and distribution law. Trade and distribution are firmly anchored in the Hanseatic city and Mr Korte is sharpening our profile in this area in particular. We are also delighted to have Martin Seevers and his team on board as experts who can provide comprehensive advice to both companies and private individuals in all areas of corporate and tax criminal law.
With these new additions, ADVANT Beiten's Corporate/M&A practice group comprises a total of 78 professionals, including 26 Equity Partners, 2 Of Counsels, 28 Non-Equity Partners, and 22 Associates.
In this edition, of course, we highlight interesting developments in the European and German legal landscape as well.
You can find the newsletter here.
All the best,
Dr Christian von Wistinghausen
