GvW Graf von Westphalen appoints four new associate partners
GvW Graf von Westphalen is promoting Dr Sven Donner, Dr Magnus Dorweiler, Dr Gerd Schwendinger, LL.M. and Dr Patrick Wolff to the status of associate partners with effect from 1 January 2013. Their promotion shows the firm continuing to grow within its own ranks.
Dr Sven Donner is a Rechtsanwalt (lawyer) in the real estate and construction practice of GvW's Berlin office. The Berlin-born Rechtsanwalt specialises in providing legal advice during infrastructure projects and was most recently involved in advising Deutsche Telekom on the development of the largest data centre in Germany.
Dr Magnus Dorweiler's specialist area is real estate law. Dr Magnus Dorweiler belongs to GvW's nine-strong Frankfurt real estate team and advises on large-volume real estate transactions. He is also involved in the family office area.
Dr Gerd Schwendinger (Hamburg) provides advice in the public sector as well as to private domestic and foreign companies, particularly on customs and foreign trade law, EU state aid law and on export control issues. As a lawyer and former judge, he has extensive forensic experience and represents clients before German and European courts and the European Commission and national authorities.
Dr Patrick Wolff's clients mainly include banks, financial service providers and companies which he advises on banking and banking supervisory law and on matters of insolvency law. The clients of the Hamburg specialist lawyer for banking and capital market law include a large bank in eight federal states which he is representing in disputes owing to the accusation of erroneous investment advice in connection with the recommendation of certificates and fund holdings.
Our firm already promoted five associates to associate partners at the beginning of this year. These were Katharina Feddersen, LL.M. (Hamburg), Ansgar Hain (Berlin), Christian Kusulis (Frankfurt a. M.), Dr Daniel Michel, LL.M. (Munich) and Dr Marco Zessel, LL.M. (Frankfurt a.M.).
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