Press releases Dr Gerd Schwendinger, LL.M.
"The firm's flagship practice impresses with its great expertise in all matters relating to the cross-border trade of goods and has been one of the uncontested market leaders for years". This is what the JUVE editorial team wrote in its current handbook for commercial law firms about the GvW team in foreign trade law, which has already…
GvW Graf von Westphalen has won the Law Firm of the Year Award from the legal publisher JUVE Verlag in the Customs and Excise Tax category.
The law firm GvW Graf von Westphalen has achieved a major success for its client before the European Court of Human Rights: The ECHR not only admitted the complaint filed in early 2013, but has now affirmed a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights as well and adjudicated compensation to the complainant represented by GvW…
The lawyers of GvW Graf von Westphalen are highly regarded in the eyes of the competitors: In this year's survey by Best Lawyers the firm received 91 awards, more recommendations than ever before.
GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised Miron Technologies on the acquisition of the personal dosimetry service facility (“AWST”) from Helmholtz Zentrum München Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) („HMGU“) in the context of an auction process.
GvW is highly recommended in several recent national and international handbooks for its excellent customs and international trade practice. The team led by Dr Lothar Harings already was the only law firm to receive a 5-star rating in the JUVE Handbook. Legal 500 Germany with a Tier 1 ranking and Who's Who Legal Germany with four…
The customs and foreign trade practice group at GvW Graf von Westphalen remains unchallenged in first place in Germany as the JUVE editorial board clarified in the rankings in the Handbook for Commercial Law Firms 2019/2020. Competitors praise the team of 10 attorneys headed by practice group leader Dr Lothar Harings for the team's…
Competitors praise the Customs and Foreign Trade Law Practice group at GvW Graf von Westphalen as “the go-to-law firm for foreign trade law”, where “clients are well-cared for” in the recently published JUVE Handbook Law 2018/19.
"Hardly any law firm succeeds in such an impressive way in covering the entire range of foreign trade law in all its aspects and in dealing with new issues, such as e.g. digitalization in cross-border trade," writes the JUVE Handbook for Commercial Law Firms 2017/2018 about the customs and foreign trade practice with its nine members in…
Private equity investors Advent International and Bain Capital have acquired all shares in the leading German payment solutions provider Concardis GmbH headquartered in Eschborn/Frankfurt. Sellers are numerous representatives of the German banking sector, amongst others Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, DZ Bank and the German Savings Bank…
The customs and foreign trade practice of GvW Graf von Westphalen has further strengthen its national top position.