Taylor Wessing
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| legal form | Partnership company with limited professional liability |
| founding | 1873 |
| Seat | Düsseldorf, (28 locations worldwide) |
| Number of employees | 1,000 lawyers worldwide
370 lawyers across Germany |
| Branch | Legal advice, advisory services |
| Website | www.taylorwessing.com |
Taylor Wessing is an international law firm with over 1000 lawyers in 28 locations worldwide.
In Germany, the law firm is organized as a partnership under German law and operates in Berlin , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt , Hamburg and Munich . In the 2016 financial year, the law firm in Germany generated annual sales of around EUR 133.5 million with around 310 fully qualified lawyers.
profile
The law firm advises companies on questions of national and international commercial law . The law firm also advises companies in emerging countries such as China , India and Brazil . Through an international network of partner law firms, Taylor Wessing is also active in regions where it does not have its own offices, such as B. in the USA and Japan.
The target group of the law firm are companies from the sectors of trademark law , energy , real estate & infrastructure , life sciences & healthcare , information technology , media and telecommunications as well as financial services .
organization
In addition to Practice Areas, Taylor Wessing is also divided into Industry Groups and Geographic Groups.
The practice groups are: Labor Law , Banking & Finance Law , Competition, EU & Trade , Corporate , Commercial and Contract Law , Information Technology / Telecommunications , Capital Markets Law , Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Logistics and Transport, Patent Law , Pharmaceutical Law , Planning and Environmental Law , Private Client , Projects, Real Estate Management , 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 downtown Hamburg at the address Hohe Bleichen 31, mainly to provide legal support to Hanseatic merchants. It was not until the 1960s that there was a significant upswing and expansion. Günter von Berenberg-Gossler took on several lawyers as partners for the first time. In 1960 there were six partners, but no lawyers employed.
Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz founded a law firm in Stettin in 1926 , which he continued in Berlin in 1933. After the Second World War he moved to Düsseldorf and took on Kurt Wessing as a partner on August 1, 1954. Under the name Graf von der Goltz, Wessing & Partner, the firm grew steadily. In 1975 the lawyers Zimmermann, Reimer, Hohenlohe founded their new law firm in Munich. The firm later traded as Zimmermann, Hohenlohe, Sommer, Rojahn and became known beyond the borders of Bavaria, especially in the field of industrial property protection.
At the end of the 1980s, due to changes in case law, the ban on merging regionally fell. The three law firms Berenberg-Gossler & Partner, Graf von der Goltz Wessing & Partner and Zimmermann Hohenlohe Sommer Rojahn merged as one of the first German law firms in 1989.
On January 1, 1993, the company merged with the Frankfurt law firm Lange & von Braunschweig. The law firm was now called Wessing Berenberg-Gossler Zimmermann Lange.
In 1996 the partners of Harnischfeger-Ksoll Lenz & Partner joined the Munich office. They also brought in their Chinese business and were one of the first German law firms to open an office in Shanghai in 1996 , which is one of the leading German law firms in China with over 10 lawyers. In 1996 the Frankfurt law firm Schreiber & Knufinke added to the Frankfurt office. 1999 saw the merger with Aretz Schmalz Weber Böning in Frankfurt. In 2000 the merger with Curschmann Rechtsanwälte followed in Hamburg .
In 1998, a group of young Berlin lawyers led by Rüdiger von Hülst and Felix Greuner joined the law firm Wessing-Berenberg Gossler Zimmermann Lange. Together with the lawyers who already worked for Konstantin Graf Lambsdorff's law firm in Berlin and Mario Ohle, who had also joined the firm, they built the Berlin office into one of the leading law firms.
At the same time, foreign law firms were increasingly entering the German market, and German law firms were increasingly being absorbed by them. First steps towards internationalization have been taken with networks in Brussels and Alicante . The majority of the partners decided in 2001 to set up a European, industry-focused and partner-run law firm.
In 2002 Wessing merged with the British law firm Taylor Joynson Garrett.
In 2003, a group of French colleagues around Arnaud de Senilhes was looking for an international environment to set up a law firm in Paris, and so the Paris office was opened.
In 2005, the Brussels office was expanded, in which Taylor Wessing now also advises on Belgian law in addition to providing advice on EU law for many years.
In 2008 Taylor Wessing opened another office in Beijing . Since May 2012 Taylor Wessing has also entered into a strategic merger with the Austrian law firm enwc Natlacen Walderdorff Cancola .
On August 4, 2014, founding partner Kurt Wessing died at the age of 87.
When the law firm fired all academic staff across Germany in March 2020 due to the Corona crisis, the nature and justification of this way of dealing with the next generation in social networks caused resentment and incomprehension.
literature
- Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : History of the Hamburg law firm Droege and Kreusler, Curschmann-Schubel-Weiss-Rollenhagen and Partner, now Taylor Wessing , Hamburg 2007.
- Reinhard Pöllath , Ingo Saenger (eds.): 200 years of business lawyers in Germany , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2009. ISBN 978-3-8329-4446-9 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Website Taylor Wessing
- ↑ JUVE Rechtsmarkt, firm records 2016/2017 .
- ^ Neymar and the Financial Foul Play . FAZ , August 8, 2017; accessed on September 21, 2017
- ^ The founder of the firm, Kurt Wessing, has died , Rheinische Post, August 8, 2014 (August 9, 2014).
- ^ Corona crisis: Taylor Wessing resigns from all academic staff. JUVE, accessed March 30, 2020 .