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15 February 2024

Foreign trade law, sanctions law and plant construction: the law firm GvW Graf von Westphalen has achieved three Tier 1 rankings in the Legal 500 Germany handbook for the first time this year. In addition, it is represented in more top lists than ever before with a total of 22 specialist areas.

20 September 2023

GvW Graf von Westphalen has again been nominated as Law Firm of the Year Germany in The Lawyer European Awards 2023.

26 June 2023

GvW enshrines principle of sustainable management in the firm’s articles of association, integrating sustainability into its corporate strategy. At their Partners meeting of 28 April 2023, the GvW Partners adopted a resolution to include the following wording into the firm’s articles of association:

07 October 2022

Nach der Nominierung als Kanzlei des Jahres durch das Branchenmagazin JUVE wurde GvW Graf von Westphalen jetzt erneut als Kanzlei des Jahres bei den „The Lawyer European Awards“ vorgeschlagen

18 August 2022

GvW Graf von Westphalen has been nominated by Germany’s leading law firm guide JUVE as “Law Firm of the Year”. The title “Law Firm of the Year” is the most coveted honour in the JUVE Awards, which are held annually to celebrate the achievements of law firms in 15 categories.

25 January 2022

GvW Graf von Westphalen acknowledges the importance of ESG (Environmental Social Governance) for commercial law firms and their clients by appointing Dr Annika Bleier, a lawyer from our Hamburg office, Head of ESG & Sustainability to guide our internal sustainability efforts and advise our firm on ESG matters. In her new role, Dr Bleier…

15 November 2021

The partners of GvW Graf von Westphalen have admitted Ms Melanie Eilers and Dr Dominic Köstner as equity partners. Both were elected at the partners’ meeting in Berlin. Christof Kleinmann and Dr Robert Theissen were confirmed in their roles as managing partners of the firm for a further term of two years, respectively. Duesseldorf partner…

30 October 2019

Which of the employers do you consider to be particularly attractive as potential employers? This is what Trendence asked young lawyers in its graduate barometer. The law firm GvW Graf von Westphalen again received the most votes from medium-sized law firms.

29 October 2019

"Integration is more than just a word, specifically for a law firm such as GvW Graf von Westphalen which places great value on working together and does not like individualists. Integration is the standard for everything." The publisher JUVE writes this in its Handbook for Commercial Law Firms 2019/2020 that has now been released, and…

15 November 2016

GvW Graf von Westphalen welcomes four Hamburg attorneys, Dr. Hartmut Henninger, Corinna Lindau, LL.M., Johan van der Veer, LL.M., as well as Dr. Andreas Wolowski, LL.M., as new associate partners.

01 September 2016

beegy GmbH has developed a further innovation in the digital electric power market. The Mannheimer energy service provider and utility company now offers its customers a new complete solution with the new, modular product "beegyLIVE" which contains the photovoltaic system, battery storage, digital energy management and all corresponding…