‘Fully focused on clients’: GvW impresses in Legal 500 ranking with three top tier rankings
GvW is a ‘unique law firm with highly competent staff,’ writes Legal 500 based on client feedback in the current edition of the Legal 500 Germany handbook. The firm is valued for its ‘complete client focus’: clients praise the ‘very pleasant cooperation’ with GvW's lawyers, also ‘on a personal level.’ The team ‘impresses with its high level of commitment, professional expertise and goal-oriented solutions.’ ‘In addition to pure legal advice, they also provide economic and practical advice,’ it continues. The team impresses with ‘very effective, clearly structured analyses that get to the heart of the matter with the necessary depth.’
The independent editorial team ranked GvW in Tier 1 in the areas of plant engineering, foreign trade and sanctions law. In addition, the firm's lawyers are recommended in the following practice areas:
Employment law, construction law, state aid law, data law, energy, trade, distribution and logistics, real estate law, information technology and digitalisation, insolvency, food law and consumer goods industry, M&A, patent law, restructuring, telecommunications, environmental and planning law, public procurement law, insurance law, competition law, economic administrative law.
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Federal Administrative Court: Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link may be built
The Federal Administrative Court has dismissed all six pending appeals against the planning decision on the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link. Construction of the tunnel may therefore now also begin in Germany. GvW advised the State of Schleswig-Holstein and was represented by a Hamburg team consisting of Dr Ronald Steiling (lead), Corinna Lindau, Dr Dietrich Drömann, Prof. Dr Christian Winterhoff, Dr Andreas Wolowski, Saskia Soravia, Dr Stefanie Ramsauer, Dr Annika Bleier, Felix Kazimierski and Niclas Langhans.(BVerwG 9 A 6.19, 9 A 7.19, 9 A 9.19, 9 A 10.19, 9 A 11.19, 9 A 12.19 and 9 A 13.19).
H4 Hotel Mönchengladbach at BORUSSIA-PARK: the place for that Bundesliga feeling
Football is king at H-Hotel Group’s new H4 Hotel in Mönchengladbach. Its location right next to the stadium and the theme rooms depicting the history of the Borussia Dortmund football club make this new hotel unique and a must for any football enthusiast. Our lawyers had the pleasure of advising H-Hotels Group on the creation of its first football-themed hotel and took the chance to visit this amazing place shortly after its opening.
Transport System Bögl: new local public passenger transport system a big success in China
The Max Bögl group of companies has developed a new local public passenger transport system. The system called “Transport System Bögl” (TSB) uses magnetic levitation, or “maglev” technology and provides a clean and cost-efficient means of transport for better mobility in inner city areas. The technology is becoming increasingly popular also in other countries: Max Bögl’s most recent export order was the sale of its TSB to China. The company’s plans include building a 3.5 km test track in Chengdu and extensive marketing activities to promote the technology in China – all through a sales partnership with a Chinese company.
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