White & Case

White & Case is an American law firm, which has a global presence with 40 offices in 27 countries. White & Case was founded in 1901 in New York.

In Germany White & Case employs 236 professionals in offices in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich. In fiscal year 2011/12, revenue was 116 million euros.

History

On 1 May 1901, the two lawyers DuPratt J. White and George B. Case founded the law firm White & Case, aged 31 and 28 years. They both invested $ 250. While Case was completed at Columbia Law School, his studies, White had only learned at a law firm. Both had the same vision of a global law firm. In the following decades, the firm grew into an international consulting firm with offices in 27 countries worldwide.

The roots of the German offices of White & Case, go back to the founded in Hamburg on April 16, 1858 Registry joke Berg & Undritz. The firm joined gradually with different local firms, especially during the 90s to the large regional firm Feddersen Laule Ewerwahn joke mountain Finkelnburg Clemm together.

In 2000, Feddersen Laule Ewerwahn joke mountain Finkelnburg Clemm merged with White & Case. By 2004, the firm changed its name in Germany as White & Case, Feddersen.

White & Case Insolvency GbR

The insolvency lawyer working in Germany for White & Case have outsourced the area of insolvency administration in the White & Case Insolvency GbR. This operates with 13 insolvency practitioners at sites where no branch of the consulting company made ​​.