Press releases
GvW Graf von Westphalen has assisted the long-established machine and plant manufacturer Lindauer DORNIER in setting up its first service center for film production lines in China.
The Finnish AR device specialist Dispelix Oy has been acquired by AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd., a world-leading smart device solution provider. One of the selling shareholders, a fund managed by Atlantic Bridge, was advised by GvW Graf von Westphalen on this transaction.
Growth from within the firm continues: at its partners' meeting on 20 November in Hamburg, the law firm GvW Graf von Westphalen elected four new Equity Partners and ten new Associate Partners. We are also delighted to announce the appointment of four new Counsels.
GvW Graf von Westphalen was honoured yesterday evening in London as "Law Firm of the Year: Germany" at the prestigious The Lawyer European Awards 2025. The law firm successfully prevailed against a total of eight nominated law firms and was recognised for its outstanding performance in the past year.
The partnership of GvW Graf von Westphalen has elected a new firm management at its partners' meeting in Hamburg: In future, Dr Maximilian Emanuel Elspas and Christian Mayer-Gießen will jointly manage the firm as co-managing partners.
Webasto, a leading supplier to the automotive industry headquartered in Stockdorf, Germany, has sold a former production site in Beijing to a domestic Chinese purchaser. Previously, Webasto had manufactured automotive roofs, related components and electronic systems on the site.
GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised Tenaz Energy Corp. on the German aspects of the acquisition of a private company with interests in the Gateway to the Ems ("GEMS") project on the boundary of the Dutch and German sectors of the North Sea. The purchase price amounted to USD 244 million.
GvW Graf von Westphalen has been nominated by the British trade journal The Lawyer in the category ‘Law Firm of the Year: Germany’ for this year's The Lawyer Awards. The winners will be announced on 27 November 2025 in London.
GvW Graf von Westphalen is one of the leading medium-sized law firms in the field of legal operations & tech. The current issue of JUVE Rechtsmarkt lists GvW as one of ten mid-sized law firms where the "use of AI and tech is now a matter of course".
GvW Graf von Westphalen advised Avacon Natur GmbH and its wholly owned subsidiary Biogas Steyerberg GmbH on the sale of a biogas plant as part of an asset deal.
The Federal Constitutional Court has upheld a constitutional complaint by a food company. In doing so, it overturned a decision by the Administrative Court of Hesse, which had authorised the authority to publish the results of a food inspection on the internet.
GvW Graf von Westphalen has comprehensively advised Hengst Filtration on its acquisition of the Chinese air filtration specialist CSC Tech.
GvW Graf von Westphalen advised abaut GmbH on a successful financing round in the amount of €3.2 million.
The technology group Rohde & Schwarz has acquired ZES ZIMMER Electronic Systems GmbH with effect from 1 July 2025. GvW Graf von Westphalen provided comprehensive legal advice to the seller in this corporate sale.
GvW Graf von Westphalen advised Chinese truck manufacturer SuperPanther on the conclusion of an agreement with Austrian commercial vehicle manufacturer Steyr Automotive on the industrial production of battery-powered trucks.
The German law firm GvW Graf von Westphalen continues its strategic growth course: On 1 June 2025, Dr Martin Strauch will join GvW as an equity partner from Hogan Lovells. He will be based in Stuttgart and will also regularly work from the Munich office.
Yesterday evening, Dr Christian Triebe and Dr Sebastian Heim accepted the ‘Europe Impact Case of the Year’ award on behalf of our IP team at the Managing IP Awards in London.
The law firm GvW Graf von Westphalen provided legal advice to SINOS GmbH on Daimler Buses' acquisition of a 49% stake in the company. Both companies have been working closely together for several years on the operation of electric city bus fleets.
GvW Graf von Westphalen advised osapiens, the leading software platform for sustainable growth and ESG compliance, on the acquisition of BYRD Health.
GvW advised a real estate fund managed by Invesco Real Estate (Invesco) on the acquisition of the InterCity Hotel Berlin Hauptbahnhof hotel property by way of an asset deal.
The HR Group in Berlin has acquired the H-Hotels Group, one of Germany's largest privately owned hotel companies, with effect from 25 February 2025. The transaction comprises more than 60 hotels in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, the Czech Republic and Hungary. GvW Graf von Westphalen provided comprehensive legal advice to GHG…
GvW Graf von Westphalen strengthens its foreign trade law practice: Bettina Mertgen joined the firm as an equity partner on 1 March, together with Philipp Hamann (counsel) and Christopher Blank (associate), and will be based in the Frankfurt office. Jan-Michael Mergler (senior associate) will follow in mid-April, with two further…
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.
Sebastian Faust joined the Düsseldorf office of law firm GvW Graf von Westphalen as a local partner on 1 February 2025. The antitrust law expert moved to GvW from the major international law firm Hogan Lovells, where he had been a lawyer since 2013.
With Amprion commissioning Hitachi Energy to manufacture four converter stations for the ‘Corridor B’ HVDC project, wind energy will be transported from the North Sea coast in Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony to the Ruhr area, supplying around four million people with electricity.
GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised Vsquared Ventures on the Series B financing round of NEURA Robotics, a leading German company in the area of cognitive and humanoid robotics.
The law firm GvW Graf von Westphalen continues to strengthen its employment law practice: Following team additions in Munich and Berlin, a six-person team from Eversheds Sutherland moved to GvW on 1 January.
DFS Aviation Services GmbH (DAS), a subsidiary of DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH (DFS), has entered into a strategic partnership with Dubai Air Navigation Services (DANS). The cooperation envisages DAS providing DANS with air traffic control personnel in Dubai for a period of five years starting in January 2025. To this end, a local…
The growth from within the firm’s own ranks continues: GvW Graf von Westphalen has elected eight new partners with effect from 1 January 2025. This means that the firm has admitted 30 lawyers to the partnership within the last three years.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today published its judgment on the scope of software copyright protection (Case C-159/23 – Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) in response to a referral from the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof - BGH).