Press releases International
“Investing in Germany – Hamburg your Gateway for your business success in Europe“. This is the motto of a roadshow organized by the City of Hamburg which takes place from 7 to 16 September in Central and South China and sets out to promote Chinese company formations in Hamburg. GvW lawyers from Hamburg and Shanghai will escort the…
On the occasion of the 70-year company anniversary of Finnish energy group Pohjolan Voima, Dr Werner Schnappauf, partner at GvW, gave the keynote speech yesterday. In his presentation in Helsinki, he focused on the German Energiewende and the future of the energy sector. A top-class group of participants subsequently discussed the future…
NASDAQ OMX-listed Concentric AB has just acquired all shares in LICOS Trucktec GmbH.
GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised the New Zealand based Les Mills Group on the acquisition of LES MILLS Germany GmbH.
Law firm GvW Graf von Westphalen is happy to announce the launch of its Israel Desk.
Hamburg-based technology group Körber AG has acquired a major share in LTi Group from the Lust family. LTi, the automation and sensor technology specialist from Lahnau near Wetzlar, Germany, has approximately 1,000 employees based in 30 locations, including Shanghai. The transaction is still subject to approval by the German cartel…
GvW is again increasing its team of lawyers in Shanghai. With Dr Alexandra Hansmeyer the firm has gained a specialist for international transactions.
GvW has advised the Bürger Group on its sale of the Lauscha Fiber International Group to the Unifrax Group which belongs to the portfolio of the private equity investor American Securities.
In a sale-and-lease-back-transaction Union Investment has acquired the Barceló Hotel Hamburg for the open-ended real estate fund “UniImmo: Deutschland“ and hereby initiated its cooperation with the third largest Spanish hotel operator. Barceló Hamburg is a new 4-star-superior hotel with 193 rooms, which opened in March 2012.…
Shanghai Municipal Electric Power Company (SMEPC) successfully participated in the privatisation process of the electrical generation sector in Nigeria as part of a consortium. The consortium was selected as preferred bidder for the Nigerian power plant Geregu.
Graf von Westphalen acted as legal counsel to the majority shareholder of Interturbine Projekt Management GmbH in the sale of the entire Interturbine Group to the NASDAQ-listed company B/E Aerospace (GS: BEAV).
On 1 June 2012, Dr. Ritesh Rajani, LL.M. joined the Hamburg office of Graf von Westphalen as a new partner. He is part of the firm’s corporate department and shall enhance in particular the M&A practice of corporate partner Dr. Dominik Ziegenhahn. Prior to joining GvW, Dr. Rajani worked at Latham & Watkins (Hamburg) for six years.
Harvard Bioscience, Inc., a global developer, manufacturer, and marketer of a broad range of tools to advance life science research and regenerative medicine, has acquired the business of AHN Biotechnologie GmbH through a subsidiary of its wholly owned Biochrom Ltd. subsidiary.
Dominik Ziegenhahn, partner in the Hamburg office of Graf von Westphalen and specializing in corporate law, has been appointed Vice President of the Board of the Chinese European Legal Association e. V. ("CELA"). He was elected to this position by the members of CELA in December 2011.
Graf von Westphalen together with HHP Attorneys-At-Law has advised Lonza Group Ltd. ("Lonza"), one of the world's leading suppliers to the pharmaceutical, healthcare and life science industries based in Basel, Switzerland and listed on the Six Swiss Exchange, on the PRC legal aspects of its successful secondary listing on the Singapore…
Together with the UK law firm Mills & Reeve, Graf von Westphalen has advised Ubisense Group plc., a leading global provider of real-time location systems, in its public listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
The recently published 12th edition of “Kanzleien in Deutschland – eine Auswahl deutscher Wirtschaftsanwälte” (“Law Firms in Germany – a Selection of German Commercial Attorneys”) underscores the comprehensive advising expertise of Graf von Westphalen as one of the few commercial law firms “that could hold its own at the top among service…
Since 2 May 2011 Graf von Westphalen's China team has been further enlarged with yet another lawyer with a Chinese background joining the firm's Hamburg office.
Graf von Westphalen has again received high ratings in the international directory “The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East & Africa.” In the 2011 edition, the law firm is recommended, in particular, in the practice areas of “Banking and finance: Bank lending”, “Corporate and M&A: Mid-sized deals”, “Employment”, “Public sector”, “Real estate…
Graf von Westphalen has strengthened its China team by hiring Helena Wan-Rong Chang-Schöne. Ms. Chang-Schöne will join the firm’s office in Frankfurt on April 1, 2011.