Gleiss Lutz

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Gleiss Lutz Hootz Hirsch

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legal form Partnership mbB
founding 1949
Seat Stuttgart (7 locations)
management Michael Arnold, Alexander Schwarz
Number of employees 350 lawyers, 85 partners
sales 217.5 million euros (Germany 2019)
Branch Commercial law
Website www.gleisslutz.com
Status: 2018

Gleiss Lutz Hootz Hirsch (often just referred to as Gleiss Lutz ) is an international German commercial law firm . Around 350 lawyers, including 85 partners , work in offices in Berlin , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt am Main , Hamburg , Munich , Stuttgart and Brussels .

history

The law firm was founded on April 1, 1949 by Alfred Gleiss (1904–1997) as an office for de- cartelation and competition issues in Stuttgart. In 1952 Gleiss was admitted to the bar and associated himself with Arved Deringer , who left in 1961 and opened his own law firm in Bonn . In 1956 Helmuth Lutz joined the office, shortly afterwards Christian Hootz and Martin Hirsch joined them. Since 1962 the firm has had the official name of Gleiss Lutz Hootz Hirsch, which is still valid today .

Rupert Scholz , Jobst-Hubertus Bauer , Ulrich Battis , Werner Hoppe , Wulf Goette , Hans Schlarmann , Gerhard Wirth and Rainer Bechtold belong to the firm .

International

Gleiss Lutz had had a close alliance with the English law firm Herbert Smith and the Dutch - Belgian law firm Stibbe since 2002 , which was terminated by Herbert Smith in November 2011 after Gleiss Lutz and Stibbe did not want to start merger talks. As an independent law firm, Gleiss Lutz works worldwide with a non-institutionalized network of foreign law firms. As part of a European network, Gleiss Lutz works closely with three other independent law firms in Europe (Chiomenti in Italy, Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira in Spain and Portugal and Gide Loyrette Nouel in France). In order to take into account the centralization of the European financial market supervision by the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), the four law firms bundled z. B. 2015 in the focus group banking regulatory law at the Frankfurt Gleiss Lutz location her banking regulatory practice. The law firm also works closely with law firms such as Stibbe (Benelux), Slaughter and May (Great Britain) and Cravath Swaine & Moore (USA).

Media reports

In December 2010, the state of Baden-Württemberg advised by the law firm bought back shares in the EnBW energy company without first obtaining the consent of the state parliament. For this, Stefan Mappus invoked the right of emergency approval as Prime Minister and only obtained the consent of the Finance Minister. This procedure was found to be a breach of the constitution by the State Court in Stuttgart in October 2011. A lawsuit brought by Stefan Mappus against the law firm with a claim for damages due to incorrect advice was rejected by the Federal Court of Justice in 2016.

The office represented the two members of the Bundestag of the SPD , Peter Danckert and Swen Schulz , who had successfully sued the nine-member special committee before the Federal Constitutional Court , which was supposed to decide on the use of the euro rescue package instead of the budget committee .

Union initiatives accuse the law firm of aiding and abetting union busting . They justify this, among other things, with the drafting of work contracts for Daimler , through which the workers affected receive around one third of the salary of permanent employees. Finally, the law firm represents deliveroo in a legal dispute about the permanent employment of an elected works councilor.

In the course of the diesel emissions affair, the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG mandated the law firm to deal with liability claims under company law in 2016 .

In 2019, the law firm represented the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) when it took action against the publication of its opinion on the herbicide glyphosate by FragDenStaat , as it believed that its copyright had been infringed. Even after five attempts, Gleiss Lutz was unable to effectively deliver an injunction . The Cologne Regional Court therefore raised because of formal errors, the publication ban and burdened the BfR the costs on.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b search results "partner". In: gleisslutz.com. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Helena Hauser, Martin Ströder: Sales 2018: Gleiss Lutz cracks the 200 million euro mark. In: juve.de ( JUVE Verlag for legal information ). March 12, 2019, accessed August 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ track lutz: history. Retrieved January 15, 2020 . History ( memento of March 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on gleisslutz.com; Retrieved February 9, 2013
  4. ↑ NJW 2004, issue 10, p. 666.
  5. ↑ Rüdiger Zuck (Ed.): Souvenir for Alfred Gleiss on his 70th birthday, Opladen 1974.
  6. ↑ René Bender: Reaction: Herbert Smith terminates alliance with Gleiss after the merger is canceled and has his own plans for Germany. In: JUVE Online. November 24, 2011, accessed October 3, 2017 .
  7. ↑ gleisslutz: Advice without borders. Retrieved January 15, 2020 . "Advice without borders" ( Memento from November 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Reorientation: Gleiss Lutz strengthens cooperation with European law firms. In: juve.de. November 23, 2012, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Frankfurt: Gleiss Lutz and Best Friends bundle a banking supervisory team. In: juve.de. November 2, 2015, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  10. ^ A b EFSF plaintiffs in Karlsruhe: lawyers for breach of the constitution. In: Spiegel Online . October 28, 2011, accessed October 3, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Energy deal: court reprimands Baden-Württemberg's EnBW purchase. In: Spiegel Online . October 6, 2011, accessed October 3, 2017 .
  12. ↑ juve.de
  13. ↑ Union Busting. When companies torpedo workers' rights. In: Stuttgarter-Tagblatt.de. February 27, 2015, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on October 3, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Food on Wheels 4.0. Protests against Deliveroo in preparation. In: New Germany. March 23, 2018, accessed July 18, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Emissions scandal: VW mandates corporate lawyer from Gleiss Lutz . Juve , February 25, 2016; accessed on March 14, 2018
  16. ↑ Tanja Podolski: After Gleiss Lutz made a mistake, "Ask the State" publishes glyphosate report again . In: Legal Tribune Online . July 5, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  17. ↑ Arne Semsrott: censorship Heber rights: glyphosate report may be published again . In: Netzpolitik.org . July 4, 2019. Retrieved January 2, 2020.