Ashurst Frankfurt opened in November 1997. Ashurst Germany comprises more than 90 partners, associates, tax consultants and solicitors. Peter Junghänel is managing partner in Germany.
The Frankfurt office specialises in:
Corporate
Corporate takeovers; capital markets law, in particular IPOs and delistings; private equity, especially LBOs and MBOs; restructuring and insolvency.
International finance
Acquisition financings, bonds, credit-linked notes, asset-backed securities, CDOs/CBOs/CLOs, investment law, derivatives, leasing, project financing.
Ashurst sponsors the Institute for Law and Finance at Frankfurt's Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University (LL.M. Finance programme and ILF Summer School).
Real estate
Acquisitions and disposals of property, sale and leasebacks, commercial leasing, real estate projects and development.
Commercial
Employment law, intellectual property and copyright (IP), IT law, competition and antitrust law, public procurement law, public law (in particular environmental, health & safety law, public building and planning law), energy law, projects (PPP/PFI and transport).
Tax
Acquisition structures, financial and real estate products, investment fund concepts.
Sport Media Entertainment (SME)
Our International SME group, led by Dr. Hermann Schlindwein, provides specialised and integral advisory services to the growing sport, media and entertainment industries. The SME group draws together a multidisciplinary team of lawyers with a wide range of experience and outstanding knowledge in all SME related fields of law.
Whether our clients require assistance with, national or international transactions, broadcasting or agency rights, rights protection, sponsorship agreements, entertainment and infrastructure projects, restructurings of sports governing bodies, disciplinary and regulatory issues or disputes, we offer our expertise and practical advice which is designed and tailored to the clients' needs and is sensitised to the commercial and cultural structure of their respective SME project.
Sport Media Entertainment - further information.