Taylor Wessing
Taylor Wessing is an international law firm with over 950 lawyers in 23 locations worldwide.
In Germany, the firm is organized as a partnership under German law and working in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich. In fiscal year 2011/12, the firm earned in Germany, with around 300 qualified lawyers an annual turnover of about € 106 million.
Profile
The firm advises companies on issues of national and international business law. In addition, the firm accompanied other companies in the emerging markets; the PRC, the Middle East, India and Brazil. Through an international network of law firms Taylor Wessing is also active in regions in which their own offices are maintained, such as in the U.S. and Japan.
The target group of the firm are companies from the following, referred to her as " industries of the future " sectors: trademark, Energy, Real Estate & Infrastructure, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Information Technology, media and telecommunications, and financial services.
Organization
Taylor Wessing is divided besides Practice Areas in Industry Groups and geographical groups.
The practice groups are: employment law, banking & finance, Competition, EU and Trade, Corporate, Commercial and Contract Law, information technology / telecommunications, capital markets law, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Logistics and Transportation, patent law, pharmaceutical law, planning and environmental law, private client, Projects, Real Estate, restructuring & insolvency law, tax law, trademark law, copyright and media law.
History
On September 1, 1873 Hermann May and Alfons Mittelstrass opened their joint office in the center of Hamburg at the address High bleaching 31, about 200 meters from the Neuer Wall. It was second and took care of all about the legal support Hanseatic merchants. Only in the 1960s, there was a significant recovery and expansion. Günter von Berenberg - Gossler took first several lawyers as partners. In 1960 there were six partners, but no salaried lawyers.
1926 Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz had founded in Szczecin a law firm, which he continued in Berlin in 1933. After the 2nd World War he moved to Dusseldorf and took it on August 1, 1954 a young, promising partner: Kurt Wessing. Under the name of Count von der Goltz, Wessing & Partner, the firm grew steadily. Wessing remained for decades the influential leader of the firm. Thanks to its good relations with companies in the heavy industry of the region is becoming one of the leading law firms in Düsseldorf.
In Munich, the lawyers Zimmermann, Reimer, Hohenlohe summer of 1975, founded their new firm. The firm was renamed later as a carpenter, Hohenlohe, Summer, Rojahn and became known on the borders of Bavaria, especially in the field of intellectual property law.
The late 1980s was the prohibition to join forces on locally due to changes in legislation. The three firms Berenberg Gossler & - partner, Count von der Goltz Wessing & Partner and Zimmermann Hohenlohe summer Rojahn joined one of the first German law firms 1989 on local integration.
1 January 1993 is merged with the Frankfurt office of Long & Braunschweig, marked by the senior partner Dr. Gustav Lange, great reputation in the financial center Frankfurt enjoyed. The firm was now called Wessing Berenberg - Gossler Zimmermann Lange.
There followed a period of consolidation with a number of local mergers at the individual sites. 1996 met the partner of the law firm Lenz & Harnischfeger - Ksoll partner for Munich office. They also brought their already thriving business with China, and opened one of the first German firms in 1996 an office in Shanghai, which is one and now has over 10 lawyers of the leading German law firms in China. 1996 supplemented the Frankfurt firm Schreiber & Knufinke the Frankfurt office. In 1999 came the merger with Frankfurt Aretz lard Weber Böning. Followed in 2000 in Hamburg, the merger with Curschmann lawyers.
1998, a group of young Berlin lawyers joined by Rüdiger von Hulst and Felix Greuner at the law firm Wessing Berenberg - Gossler Zimmermann Lange. Together with the order Konstantin Graf Lambsdorff already working for the law firm in Berlin lawyers and the equally -added Mario Ohle, they built the Berlin office to one of the leading law firms.
At the same time increasingly pushed foreign firms on the German market, German firms increasingly disappeared, were absorbed by them. Preliminary steps towards the internationalization have been made with networks in Brussels and Alicante. The majority of the partners decided in 2001 for a new strategy: a European, industry- focused and partner-owned firm should arise.
On September 1, 2002, the merger of Taylor Joynson Garrett and Wessing came into force.
2003 was looking for a group of French colleagues to Arnaud de Senilhes after an international environment for building their own firm in Paris and the Paris office was opened in the same year.
2005 saw the extension of the Brussels office, in the Taylor Wessing advises now in addition to the many years of consulting in EU law in Belgian law.
2008 Taylor Wessing opened an office in Beijing. Since May 2012 Taylor Wessing is also a strategic merger with Austrian firm enwc Natlacen Walder Cancola received.