Hengeler Mueller

Hengeler Mueller is an international law firm with a focus on business law. The more than 250 lawyers ( including 86 partners ) work in offices in Dusseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Munich, Brussels and London. In addition, the firm cooperates with foreign law firms.

Hengeler achieved a turnover of 214 million euros in 2012.

History

The law firm of Hans Hengeler (1902-1982), founded in Dusseldorf in 1947 teamed up with Henry Wirtz and Heinz -Bernd Kurth. In Frankfurt, Rudolf Mueller opened in March 1947 his law firm, which in the same year, Heinz Weitzel joined as a partner. 1945/46, Dr. Mueller was the first Economic and traffic minister of the state of Hesse. Since the mid- 1970s, the firm was named Mueller Weitzel Weisner, with whom she went to the merger. Today's law firm " Hengeler Mueller " was formed in 1990 from the merger of the Düsseldorf office ( Hengeler Kurth Wirtz ) with the Frankfurt office branch ( Mueller Weitzel Weisner ).

Areas of Practice

The firm is particularly active in the field of Mergers & Acquisitions. She has accompanied a number of restructuring major German companies and is one of 22 of the 30 DAX, and 31 of the Dow Jones Euro Stoxx 50 companies to their clients.

Next, the firm also works in the areas of company law, banking law, financial law, capital market law, antitrust law, tax law, labor law, Public Law and Intellectual Property Law. The management of litigation and arbitration proceedings is also active spectrum.

On March 25, 2014 report multiple media, that Munich has office is investigating lawyers of the law firm in connection with a case against the German bank of perjury and searched offices of the law firm.