30 June 2015 Press releases

Further expansion of the M&A and energy practice: GvW Graf von Westphalen grows with a partner team

The expansion of the M&A practice group as well as the aspiring GvW focus area energy continues: Following the entry of Helmut Kempf as equity partner in Düsseldorf, two additional new equity partners, Jens Suhrbier and Dr Ulf Liebelt-Westphal, have joined the firm. Both lawyers came from Norton Rose Fulbright and will support the growth of the firm’s Hamburg office.

“For our clients who are often medium-sized companies, we were looking for a medium-sized law firm with an international environment, a good reputation in the energy industry and cost-sensitive structures. We found all this at GvW”, Jens Suhrbier and Dr Ulf Liebelt-Westphal explained. “Moreover, the particularly fair cooperation in the firm is an important motive for our change of firm.”

Jens Suhrbier and Dr Ulf Liebelt-Westphal are specialized in M&A transactions in the energy sector with a focus on renewable energy. Among their clients are developers, banks, producers, construction companies and investors whom they advised on more than 100 onshore wind parks and over a dozen offshore wind parks. In addition to corporate/M&A advice during transactions, the Hamburg-based partners also offer advice to national and international industry players in this sector on legal aspects of plant construction and engineering as well as regulatory topics.

Christof Kleinmann and Dr Robert Theissen, the firm’s managing partners, stated: “With Jens Suhrbier and Dr Ulf Liebelt-Westphal we will again enhance our competence in the field of M&A transactions; this is a great success, both in the national context, but also due to the increasingly close cooperation with our international partner firms. Moreover, we are extending our classic renewable energy project business. The project business offers many interfaces to our practice groups such as real estate & construction, infrastructure, banking and taxes. We are in a very good position to serve these synergies with our new partners in Hamburg.”

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