Graf von Westphalen wins Legal Excellence Award in customs law
InterContinental Finance Magazine has named Graf von Westphalen Germany’s “Law Firm of the Year Trade & Customs.” The award is part of the annual Legal Excellence Awards based on a survey of approximately 15,500 readers of the trade magazine conducted this year.
“This award is both an endorsement of our work and an incentive to continually expand our expertise in this area,” says Marian Niestedt, Partner at Graf von Westphalen and one of four lawyers in Germany recognized as a leading practitioner of foreign trade and customs law in “Who’s Who of Trade and Customs Lawyers 2010.”
The Legal Excellence Award represents another important achievement for the law firm which recently saw its leading position among German law firms in the area of trade and customs law reaffirmed in “JUVE Handbook German Commercial Law Firms 2010/2011,” Germany’s most respected guide to commercial and corporate law firms.
Graf von Westphalen’s Foreign Trade & Customs Law Practice comprises three Partners and three Associates based in Hamburg and Brussels who advise businesses on all aspects of foreign trade and customs law including sanctions and export controls, WTO law and market-order law.
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