‘Collaborative, friendly and business minded team with great industry knowledge backed by excellent technical skills.’

‘Smooth collaboration within the team. Managing Associates have the quality to substitute and step in for the work of partners. Working efficiently with other Linklaters teams.’

‘Commercial flair and judgment in the assessment of the facts; Efficient, clear and to the point answers.’

‘The team provided us with excellent support throughout the transaction and was completely focused on our interests. You look ahead and think long-term. This allowed us to anticipate issues that we need to keep an eye on. We felt that we were in good hands and could rely on the advice completely and at any time. Top cooperation with the other consultant teams too.’

‘Sebastian Daub: Always available for us, very immersed in the issues and not only masters the legal issues, but always has an eye on the big picture and sees the context of the transaction. He thought a lot further than the current situation dictated.’

‘Katharina Engels was always available for us, coordinated all the details and always had a complete overview.’

‘Expertise, quick availability, team strength, accuracy.’

‘Strong communication, high partner involvement, very good negotiation skills, very high availability, excellent advice.’

‘Philipp von Braunschweig excels at managing family-run transactions. Very patient and conscientious in preparing his clients on the sell side. Focused on finding a balanced solution. Very pragmatic.’

‘Pöllath offers a unique integration of the legal and tax aspects in fund advice. On the tax side, there is also an extremely useful connection between transaction advice and structuring on the one hand, and practical tax advice on the other. The price of the whole “package” is nowhere near as high as that of international competitors.’

‘High level of competence, comprehensive industry knowledge, strong legal personalities.’

‘Excellent team, trusting working relationship, forward-thinking.’

‘Friendly relationship with everyone, 100% commitment to us as clients – day and night!’

‘Excellent specialist knowledge, experts recognized throughout Germany, very fast and competent processing, very high accessibility and availability, very good and close support, exact adherence to deadlines.’

‘The team showed a lot of initiative and foresight and worked very result-oriented. The project required a lot of coordination with various international A&O offices, which worked really smoothly. All colleagues were available around the clock and showed great commitment. The team was also super efficient and effective during the contract negotiations and managed to create a buyer-friendly SPA.’

‘Holistic advice; put yourself in the position of the customer; solution-oriented; strong commitment of the partner.’

‘Michiel Huizinga represented our perspective in advising on complex legal issues, seamlessly involving peers on expert topics; very pragmatic approach to dealing with transaction challenges.’

‘Dr. Michiel Huizinga: Lead Partner who coordinates all work streams. Incredibly hard working and fully in control of all workflows. Very organized and a strong communicator. All results, negotiations and documents were of first class quality.’

‘High availability and commitment of the team, very good commercial understanding in the interests of the client, result-oriented and efficient negotiation, very good knowledge of the German M&A market, good network with foreign partner law firms.’

‘Dr. Oliver Wolfgramm: Result-oriented, very good commercial understanding in the interests of the client, efficient negotiation, even with difficult negotiating partners.’

‘Dr. Jessica Mohaupt-Schneider is characterized by immense specialist knowledge, goal-oriented thinking, perfect project management and a strong personality.‘

‘Professionally and personally very good team, efficient and goal-oriented.’

‘Very approachable and easygoing team, very “user friendly”.’

‘Good and friendly personalities, nice and easy to deal with while being sharp and aggressive (in a good way); commercially thinking.’

‘High professionalism and depth of knowledge.’

‘Noerr’s transaction team is technically extremely competent and at the same time pragmatic. High level of expertise in the implementation of corporate transactions with optimization of individual options for action (balancing opportunities/risks).’

‘Dr. Martin Neuhaus has extraordinary professional competence, high speed of action and familiarization with complex issues, balanced opportunity/risk assessment, use of a large network.’

‘The team was available at all times. It was particularly positive that they came up with a transaction structure for a complex M&A transaction in the shortest possible time that implemented what was economically desired within the best possible legal framework. Even over the Christmas holidays the team has been working to make signing possible by the end of the year.’

‘Sebastian Voigt has broad knowledge and good solutions, and was very helpful in completing the transaction on time and professionally.’

‘First class P2P franchise in Germany.’

‘Wilhelm Reinhardt is great at P2Ps. Lots of experience navigating the fine nuances that are so relevant in Germany.’

‘The team is led by Dirk Oberbracht who develops good relationships with the in-house legal team as well as with the business people. Very capable of large transactions, well organized and commercial.’

‘The main contact is Dirk Oberbracht, who is heavily involved in the transactions and maintains a high level of engagement with the transactions through to completion.’

‘Dr. Dirk Oberbracht: Excellent lawyer for M&A. Pragmatic approach and very good negotiation skills.’

‘Dr. Jan Schubert: Excellent legal knowledge and very precise work (even in small details). Indispensable when handling a more complex transaction.’

‘Friendly, open-minded and collaborative team with good industry knowledge and excellent technical skills.’

‘The team of Benedikt von Schorlemer, Jan Ischreyt and Max Uibeleisen did an incredible job bringing all the different parties together and reflecting all interests objectively, challenging different perspectives from both sides (client and other parties) and finding pragmatic solutions. The whole team responded very quickly (usually less than an hour) and always made themselves available when needed. With its specialists, Ashurst covers all inquiries from labor law to M&A .’

‘Benedikt von Schorlemer: Perfect partner to work together on the transaction. He always reflects both sides objectively and advises the respective situation with a strong focus on the overall performance. He offers well-prepared solutions and prevents the company from problems after the transaction is completed. He supports very flexible deal structures and supports them with his extreme experience, knowledge and focus on closing a deal. Almost always available, concrete answers and solutions. ‘

‘The practice is characterized by the fact that it has many different competencies in-house and so other internal colleagues/experts in the respective areas can always be consulted at short notice and unbureaucratically for various questions.’

‘We have in particular with Dr. Benedikt von Schorlemer worked together. His advice is characterized by his ability to develop creative and pragmatic solutions to complex issues. He also has a good sense of where in the contract negotiations you should be more or less aggressive.’

‘Jan Ischreyt: Very committed associate with a lot of experience for his age and a very pragmatic way of solving problems. Jan can have different views on a deal and will recommend the best options for the current situation.’