Press releases
GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised the project developer Kapitalpartner Konzept GmbH in the project planning related to the acquisition of real property.
The “2nd German-Chinese Conference of Mid-size Businesses” will take place in Jieyang from 6 to 8 June 2016. GvW Graf von Westphalen will participate in the event and is helping to structure the program.
The German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) announced its judgment in the case between the music producer Moses Pelham and the music group Kraftwerk. GvW partner Prof. Dr. Christian Winterhoff represented Kraftwerk at the announcement of the judgment before the German Constitutional Court.
The head of the Rhein-Main D-I-W G office and partner of the law firm GvW Graf von Westphalen, Christian Kusulis, welcomed the guests and gave an overview of the economic relationships between the two countries. The general consul of the State of Israel, Dr. Dan Shaham, then introduced Helge Eikelmann as the new representative of the…
A company in the Canadian Granite Group has sold the commercial park Markgröningen to Sirius Real Estate Ltd. GvW Graf von Westphalen provided legal advice to the Canadian real estate investor in this transaction through Dr. Bettina Schmitt-Rady (Lead Real Estate Department, Frankfurt a.M.).
Companies need reliability and foreseeability when applying embargos with regard to countries and persons. The participants in the 5th Berlin discussions conducted by GvW Graf von Westphalen drew this conclusion yesterday.
GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised technology distributor Midwich Group plc on its £165 million initial public offering (IPO) on London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and the related £75 million fundraising.
GvW will also use the medium of video in the future: the GvW Video Blog went online today.
In response to the proposal of the bar association in Munich, the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice appointed today the Munich GvW partner Christian Fuhst as an honorary judge at the Bavarian Disciplinary Court in Munich (Bayerischer Anwaltsgerichtshof “BayAGH”).
GvW has provided advice to the medical technology provider TRACOE medical GmbH for the financing and implementation of the expansion into Great Britain.
The construction of the A 20 Elbe Tunnel near Glückstadt can be continued by Schleswig-Holstein. The German Supreme Administrative Court [Bundesverwaltungsgericht, "BVerwG"] mostly dismissed corresponding complaints against the tunnel project.
Digitalization and law: What are the city utilities (Stadtwerke) facing? The GvW partners Arnd Böken, Stephan Menzemer (both IT) and Helmut Kempf (Energy) will address these issues at the 20th Euroforum convention "Stadtwerke 2016" which begins today in Berlin.
The OLG Hamm announced it the oral hearing that it will continue to conduct the proceedings about the appeal by Rustenburg Co. Ltd., represented by the law firm GvW Graf von Westphalen. The court intends to obtain an expert report on English and Russian law to clarify the issues in dispute about the scope of the arbitral award by the…
Upon instruction by an SPE of a leading European real estate investment manager, GvW Graf von Westphalen advised on the sale of a portfolio consisting of three German wholesale properties to the institutional investor MAS Real Estate.
The first interdisciplinary BIM cluster has been established in the metropolitan region of Hamburg in the form of BIM HUB Hamburg. Representatives from the architect profession, building technology, engineering, project management, law, associations and software companies have come together to provide knowledge about Building…
The Joachim Herz Stiftung will hold in the future ten percent of the share capital in VTG AG. A corresponding sales agreement has now been concluded by the Hamburg foundation with the fund managed by Wilbur Ross.
Commerzbank is moving its headquarters in Hamburg: The second largest bank in Germany has sold its headquarters in the Rathausstraße to Procom Invest and OFB Projektentwicklung and is leasing the "Hamburg Two Towers" at the Lübeckertordamm ("Hamburg Two Towers").
The 1st Future Congress on the Future of Migration & Integration is taking place today at the national press office. More than 500 participants will discuss in Berlin practical issues for local communities, states and the nation resulting from the refugee situation.
The private investment firm Genui Partners acquires shares in mymuesli: The food processing company ceded 30% of its shares to the Hamburg-based private equity company. GvW Graf von Westphalen advised mymuesli on the transaction.
The DIVAG Group is constructing in the Rheinpromenade in Monheim a three star comfort hotel with 178 rooms and 3,000 m² office space. The Düsseldorf company has now announced this. The project developer is a joint venture consisting of Divag Konzept + Planung and LO-projects.
ACP Holding Deutschland GmbH is continuing to expand its regional presence in northern and eastern Germany. The systems company has now announced the acquisition of the Janz IT Group. GvW Graf von Westphalen advised ACP Holding in this transaction.
A classic event among the events on arbitration is the Petersberg Arbitration Seminar. The experts in arbitration are addressing now for the 14th time disputes in the law governing distribution and antitrust law. GvW partner Dr. Raimond Emde will discuss in his presentation his many years of practice in international arbitration…
The national initial round of the 57th Philip C. Jessup Moot Court begins tomorrow in Munich. The organizer of the oldest moot court in the world in this year are the Ludwig-Maximilian University and the German Military Academy in Munich. The law firm GvW Graf von Westphalen, represented by Dr Hartmut Henninger acting as a judge, is…
GvW Graf von Westphalen has again advised the French Legrand group on a complex cross-border transaction. With the recently completed share purchase agreement, the Legrand group in parallel acquired Fluxpower GmbH with its business seat in Germany and Primetech Srl with its business seat in Italy.
GvW Graf von Westphalen has again advised the French Legrand Group in a complex, cross-border transaction. The Legrand Group acquired Fluxpower GmbH with its headquarters in Germany and Primetech Srl with its headquarters in Italy in parallel with a recently closed share purchase agreement.
"Indigenous Nation Laws in an International Comparison" (Indigene Landrechte im internationalen Vergleich) is the title of the dissertation by Dr. Katja Göcke of the law firm GvW Graf von Westphalen which has now been published in the Springer Verlag. The Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg awarded the Fritz-Grunebaum Prize for the…
The series of presentation " T Projects negotiated properly under the law and taxes – managing disputes" begins today with the event in Frankfurt am Main. Our attorneys will hold presentations at a total of eleven locations in which they will report about their many years of experience in litigation involving IT contracts.
The international industry magazine The Lawyer has nominated GvW Graf von Westphalen in the context of the “The Lawyer European Awards 2016“ as Law Firm of the Year/Germany.
The internationally active commercial law firm GvW Graf von Westphalen again reports an excellent development for the business year 2015. In the past year, the turnover could be increased by EUR 1 million (2.6%) to now EUR 38.48 million, with a team of the same size as in the previous year.
The first oral hearing in the litigation involving the construction of the clinic "Center for Operative Medicine II" (ZOM II) took place before the District Court Düsseldorf. The university clinic of Düsseldorf (UKD) is demanding here, among other items, damages from the, in the meantime, insolvent building furnisher Imtech resulting from…