Deadlines
The research schedule and guidelines for The Legal 500 Deutschland 2023 edition are now below.
Researchers
Details of researchers are now available
To learn more about the team behind our research, please visit Meet The Legal 500 Team.
Deutschland deadline: 31 May 2022
The deadline is both for the editorial submissions and the referee forms.
The template documents you will need to send submissions are here:
Template If you wish to request a template in English, please get in touch via email.
Referee form
To send your submissions to us, please visit submissions.legal500.com and follow the onscreen prompts to send us new documents.
Login details have been sent to all firms – if you have not received your login or have problems accessing submissions.legal500.com, please get in touch via our FAQ page using the ‘Law firm submissions’ tab.
Please ensure you send your submissions in by the deadline. The timetable for the research will be adhered to rigorously.
Research schedule info
Firm interviews conducted: 6 June – 19 August 2022
Publication: January 2023
FAQs and supporting info
Practice areas
Cities and practice areas we are researching for the Deutschland 2023 edition include:
ANTITRUST
- Antitrust
- Antitrust litigation
BANKING AND FINANCE
- Financial services: regulatory
- Fintech
- Investment funds
- Lending and borrowing
- Project finance
- Real estate finance
CAPITAL MARKETS
- Debt capital markets
- High-yield
- Equity capital markets
- Structured finance and securitisation
COMPLIANCE
- Compliance
- Internal investigations
CORPORATE AND M&A
- Corporate
- Corporate and shareholder disputes
- M&A: large deals (€500m+)
- M&A: mid-sized deals (€100m-€500m)
- M&A: smaller deals (sub-€100m)
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
- Arbitration (including international arbitration)
- Commercial litigation
- Financial services: litigation
- Product liability
EMPLOYMENT
- Employment
FOOD LAW AND CONSUMER GOODS
- Food law and consumer goods
INDUSTRY FOCUS
- Energy
- Regulatory
- Transactions
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Drug advertising law
- Medical law – NEW
- Regulatory
- Transactions
- Telecoms
- Regulatory
- Transactions
INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY
- Data protection
- Information technology and digitalisation
- IT transactions and outsourcing
INSURANCE
- Advice to insurers
- Insurance litigation
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- Patent litigation
- Patent litigation: Patent attorneys
- Patent prosecution
- Trade marks
- Design law
- Trade mark administration and strategic advice
- Unfair competition
MEDIA
- Entertainment
- Copyright disputes
- Digital content
- Gaming
- Press and publishing
PRIVATE CLIENTS AND NON-PROFITS
- Private clients and non-profits
PRIVATE EQUITY
- PE transactions: large deals (€500m+) – NEW
- PE transactions: mid-sized deals (€100m-€500m) – NEW
- Fund formation
- Venture capital
PUBLIC SECTOR
- Commercial administrative law
- Planning and environment
- Product-related advice
- Waste management
- Public procurement
- State aid
REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTION
- Construction (including construction litigation)
- Project development
- Real estate
RESTRUCTURING AND INSOLVENCY
- Insolvency
- Restructuring
TAX
- Tax
- Criminal tax law
TRADE AND DISTRIBUTION
- Foreign trade law
- Trade, distribution and logistics
TRANSPORT
- Advice to the transport sector
- Maritime and shipping
- Ship financing
WHITE-COLLAR CRIME
- Advice to companies
- Advice to individuals
City Focus – NEW This replaces the chapter ‘Local firms: Commercial Law’. We invite local firms as well as major national and international law firms with offices in the respective cities to submit overviews of their practices, highlighting areas of specialism. Within this section, we continue to place special emphasis on regional clients and instructions.
- Berlin
- Bremen
- Cologne
- Dresden
- Düsseldorf
- Frankfurt
- Hamburg
- Hannover
- Leipzig
- Munich
- Nuremberg
- Stuttgart