Press releases Turkey Desk

The law firm GvW Graf von Westphalen continues to focus strongly on its own young talent: with eight new equity partners and four new associated partners, the partnership has never before appointed so many new partners from its own ranks within one year.

GvW Graf von Westphalen has once again been shortlisted as a finalist for “Law Firm of the Year: Germany” at “The Lawyer European Awards”. The international jury thus continues view GvW as one of Europe’s top law firms.

Dr Gökçe Uzar Schüller is a new member of the board of directors of the Turkish German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (TD-IHK).

The 2.5 million users of Homepage-Baukasten.de and bedava-sitem.com in Turkey now again have full access to the content of the Turkish language sites of bedava-sitem.com. Turkish public authorities (ICTA - Information and Communication Technologies Authority) had blocked all images on bedava-sitem.com. After negotiations by GvW Graf von…

Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. ("TAI") with headquarters in Ankara has taken over the Airbus supplier Grunewald Stade GmbH & Co. KG ("Grunewald Stade").

Helmut Kempf (49) will join GvW Graf von Westphalen as a new equity partner and will strengthen the firm's Düsseldorf office starting on 1 June. The main focus of his work will be providing advice in M&A projects. He will also provide support to the growing GvW focus on energy with his many years of expertise in the industry.

In addition to several leading Turkish foreign banks, the law firm GvW Graf von Westphalen now also advises one of the leading Chinese banks in Germany. With that, the firm counts 15 foreign banks among its clients.

Dr Gökçe Uzar Schüller, a Turkish lawyer at GvW’s Munich and Istanbul offices, was appointed local partner with effect from 1 January 2015.