Addleshaw Goddard strengthens German practice with team from Taylor Wessing
International law firm Addleshaw Goddard is strategically strengthening its growing German practice with a substantial team of lawyers from Taylor Wessing across corporate and M&A, private equity, restructuring and insolvency.
Partners Dr Hendrik Boss, Dr Christian Saueressig, Sven Schweneke and Dr Elisabeth Schalk will join the firm in the New Year together with their teams. They will be based in Addleshaw Goddard’s Munich office, adding substantial transactional and restructuring capability in one of Germany’s leading business centres.
Dr Hendrik Boss has extensive experience in restructuring and insolvency. He advises banks and financial investors in their capacity as creditors or investors in crisis situations as well as domestic and international companies on financial restructurings and insolvency proceedings. Furthermore, he is a trusted advisor to renowned insolvency administrators.
Dr Christian Saueressig focuses on restructuring and insolvency law, particularly major domestic and international insolvency proceedings, insolvency-related disputes, especially those with a cross-border context. In addition, he advises companies, management teams and creditors on restructurings in crisis and insolvency situations.
Sven Schweneke advises on complex domestic and cross-border private equity and M&A transactions, with further experience in carve-outs and group restructurings.
Dr Elisabeth Schalk advises on cross-border and national M&A and venture capital transactions, joint ventures, corporate law as well as corporate structuring and reorganisations. She has particular experience advising international and domestic corporate clients, strategic investors, including funds and family offices, and technology-driven businesses.
They will be joined by Taylor Wessing’s salary partners Julia Siedhoff, Lisa Katrin Iwersen, Maik Luttmann and Alexandra Prasch, who advise in restructuring and insolvency law, and Florian Leitsbach, whose practice focuses on private equity and M&A. In total the team comprises 20 people.
Eckart Budelmann, Head of Germany at Addleshaw Goddard, comments:
“We are very pleased to strengthen our service offering with a renowned team that brings considerable depth and experience in core transactional areas that are strategically important to our clients.
Munich is one of Germany's leading business hubs and the centre of its private equity and venture capital market. Together with the deep restructuring expertise this team brings, we are strengthening our transactional practice enhancing our ability to bring together the right expertise for clients, in Germany and abroad, wherever they need it.”
