Taylor Wessing

Managing Partner:Olaf Kranz

Senior Partner:133

Number of partners:230

Number of other fee-earners:255

International Offices:Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, South Korea, UAE, UK, Ukraine, USA

Firm Overview

Taylor Wessing stands for excellent legal advice: in-depth, comprehensive but to the point. With its guiding principle “Challenge expectation, together”, the firm is committed to questioning what is expected and thinking beyond the obvious. This is how Taylor Wessing’s legal advisors find the best solutions: working together with their clients.

This approach makes Taylor Wessing particularly strong in areas where the milestones of digitalisation are set: technology, life sciences & healthcare, energy & infrastructure and private wealth. In this way, we shape the business development of our clients today with the potential of tomorrow’s technologies.

Main Areas of Practice

Corporate/M&A & Capital Markets

51 partners; 95 fee earners based in Germany

• Imperial Logistics an international logistics company on the sale of its inland shipping business. This deal followed a previous sale in summer 2020 and involved TW offices in Germany, the UK and the Netherlands.
• Hauck & Aufhäuser and mBank on voluntary public exchange offer of Vita 34 AG to the shareholders of Polish PBKM

Key Clients:thyssenkrupp, Evonik, REWE Group, Fujitsu, Imperial Logistics

Contact:Klaus Grossmann

Disputes & Investigations

40+ partners; 80+ fee earners based in Europe

Theinternational partner-led team represents global businesses and high net worth individuals on the successful resolution of complex and high value commercial disputes and investigations.

The firmworks closely withits clients not only to resolve disputes – whether through litigation, arbitration or regulatory processes – but proactively to avoid them in the first place. The team advises on risk management, from compliance to regulatory advice and bespoke training to avoid common pitfalls.

Clients from all industries, incl. life sciences & healthcare, tech, energy, and logistics as well as net worth individuals, appreciate the clarity ofthe firm'sadvice,its strategic focus andits emphasis on strong relationships, project management and use of technology.

Contact:Philipp Behrendt

Employment, Pensions & Mobility

22 partners; 51 fee earners based in Germany

Whether it is on transactions, the digitalisation of the workplace, HR compliance, staff flexibilisation, restructuring or day-to-day advice to companies: with over 50 employment lawyers in Germany and 130 specialist employment lawyers in 17 jurisdictions, Taylor Wessing offers seamless international full-service employment, pensions & mobility advice.

Key Clients:Adobe, Asana, DoorDash, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Lyft, Panasonic, REWE Group, Telefónica

Contact:Kilian Friemel

Energy & Infrastructure

39 partners; 55 fee earners based in Europe

The international team offers cross-jurisdictional advice on renewables transactions and financing, in particular onshore wind and solar (early and late stage including portfolio transactions) as well as large infrastructure projects more generally. We offer market leading and renowned expertise in energy plant construction, with an outstanding focus on offshore wind across Europe. Our regulatory experts offer full service for the energy intensive companies and the energy sector, advising inter alia on power concepts and high-volume corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs), on energy storage, data centers, PV rooftop concepts, EV charging infrastructure, contracting, network regulation, direct marketing, emission trading, and digitalization. In addition, we focus on digital infrastructure projects such as broadband fibre, and on more classic infrastructure projects such as ports, airports, rail and logistics.

Contact:Tillmann Pfeifer

Healthcare

18 partners; 25 fee earners based in Germany

- NORD Holding and Zentrum Gesundheit Group on the acquisition of Klinik Flechsig and, subsequently, on the acquisition of REALEYES Group

- Acquisition of several medical care centres (MVZ), labs, hospitals and other healthcare targets

- Acquisition of several care homes

Key Clients:Adiuva / Sanecum, amedes, Nord Holding, Oberberg Gruppe, Trilantic Europe

Contact:Michael Stein

Life Sciences

18 partners; 26 fee earners based in Germany

The firm's life sciences team advises leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies. It provides support from product development to successful placement on the market. It devises strategic collaborations or game-changing M&A transactions and provides strategic regulatory advice. The life science team supports its client in enforcing their innovations and in getting freedom to operate. Dispute resolution includes patent, trademark and unfair competition litigation as well as product liability issues and contentious matters with regulators.

Key Clients:Pfizer, Abbott, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Cochlear, Novartis, TÜV Süd, LivaNova

Contact:Anja Lunze

Patents Technology & Life Sciences

15 partners; 24 fee earners based in Germany

• Advising Abbott regarding patent infringement actions against Edwards Lifesciences
• Advising Asus regarding 17 patent infringement actions brought by Philips against Asus
• Representation of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in enforcing its claims against Ono Pharmaceuticals, and Dr. Tasuku Honjo

Key Clients: Abbott Laboratories, Allison, ASUS, Hexal/Sandoz

Contact: Gisbert Hohagen

Real Estate

23 partners; 39 fee earners based in Germany

Taylor Wessing’s real estate law practice pursues a full-service approach, which covers the entire real estate life cycle in numerous asset classes.

Our real estate specialists based in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich have comprehensive experience with complex transactions and project developments. Our clients entrust us with largescale and strategically important real estate, energy and infrastructure projects. Our practice has a strong focus on office buildings, hotels, residential properties, logistics facilities, healthcare and technology sites.

Legal services include active asset management, commercial tenancy law, public building and planning law as well as private real estate law and environmental issues with a particular emphasis on ESG and CSR strategies.

Our finance team includes a dedicated and renowned real estate financing practice with which our real estate law practice regularly teams up.

Key Clients: AEW, Art-Invest, BNP Paribas, CLS, Commerz Real, DWS Real Estate, ECE, GARBE Group, LaSalle, Premier Inn, Swiss Life REIM

Contact:Johannes Callet

Technology, Media & Communications

21 partners; 49 fee earners based in Germany

• Representation of Adobe Systems in connection with one of the "milestone" decisions in the software sector ("used-soft") in recent years
• Advising Nintendo on the group-wide implementation of the GDPR and on all areas of data protection law
• Advice on data protection law for the entire German Vodafone Group

Key Clients:Adobe, Bytedance/TikTok, eBay, Nintendo, Vodafone

Contact:Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche

Brands & Advertising

14 partners; 23 fee earners based in Germany

The focus of the German group is on representing international clients on the development of new products and marketing strategies, on the realisation of their core assets such as trademarks, goodwill and trade secrets as well as on the protection and enforcement of its rights against competitors and product pirates.

Key Clients:American Airlines, Cisco, Scotch Whisky Association

Contact:Olaf Gillert

Practice Areas

• Aerospace & Defence
• Automotive & Mobility
• Banking & Finance
• Brands & Advertising
• Business & Professional Services
• Chemicals
• Commercial & Consumer Contracts
• Competition, EU & Trade
• Consumer & Retail
• Copyright & Media Law
• Corporate / M&A & Capital Markets
• Corporate Crime & Compliance
• Data Protection & Cyber
• Disputes & Investigations
• Employment, Pensions & Mobility
• Environmental, Planning & Regulatory
• Financial Institutions & Insurance
• Hotels, Hospitality & Leisure
• Information Technology
• Life Sciences & Healthcare
• Logistics & Transport
• Manufacturing & Industrials
• Patents & Innovation
• Private Client
• Private Equity / Venture Capital
• Private Wealth
• Projects
• Public Services & Education
• Real Estate, Energy & Infrastructure
• Restructuring & Insolvency
• Technology, Media & Communications

Responsible Business & Sustainability

For us, responsible business means that we, as a law firm and in our role as part of society, act in accordance with social and ecological goals that promise to secure the future of all of us in the best possible way.

Taylor Wessing Germany is working to be a pioneer among the major law firms in Germany in the area of responsible business.

That is why we use our professional expertise and entrepreneurial skills to make a significant contribution to a society and environment that is fair to all generations within our immediate sphere of influence.

We have taken our corporate value of "responsibility" to the next level and started to systematically implement our strategy for responsible business and sustainability. We are doing this in four areas of action: Environment & Climate, People & Workplace, Social Responsibility and Governance & Values.

Pro Bono

As a law firm, we fulfil our responsibility through pro bono work and support disadvantaged or disenfranchised people and communities as well as non-profit organisations that could not afford legal services. Offering pro bono services demonstrates professional integrity, professional ethics and pays into our values of responsibility, community and respect. Our clients also increasingly want to understand our commitment to pro bono work and work with us on related projects.

With our pro bono programme, Taylor Wessing enables all lawyers and non-lawyer employees to get involved, to promote their commitment and also to present their commitment internally and externally.

Diversity and inclusion at Taylor Wessing

In order for our employees to be successful, we promote a culture of inclusion in which we can work in harmony with our values, learn from each other and develop. Our corporate culture is characterised by mutual respect and appreciation for each individual.

Regardless of gender, marital status, sexual identity, disability, age, religion or origin, we offer equal career opportunities and make it possible to combine work, family and leisure time through part-time work, home office and sabbaticals. We endeavour to drive forward new and effective initiatives in order to achieve our goals as quickly as possible.

Equal opportunities for men and women

20 % of our partners are women (as of 2022). We are committed to increasing the number of female partners in the coming years. We are making good progress in a number of areas of law and sharing best practice across all areas of our firm.

We support women to develop in leadership positions. We have an international programme for female leaders that provides a forum for our partners to network and learn from each other as they develop their practice.

Offices in Germany

Berlin

Ebertstraße 15

10117 Berlin

T +49 30 8856360

Dusseldorf

Benrather Straße 15

40213 Dusseldorf

T +49 211 83870

Frankfurt

Thurn-und-Taxis-Platz 6

60313 Frankfurt am Main

T +49 69 971300

Hamburg

Am Sandtorkai 41

20457 Hamburg

T +49 40 368030

Munich

Isartorplatz 8

80331 Munich

T +49 89 210380