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Practise Areas Rankings and Analysis

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 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Gleiss Lutz Kirkland & Ellis Linklaters

Hogan Lovells Schultze & Braun Taylor Wessing Weil Gotshal & Manges Wellensiek

 Allen & Overy

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Görg Latham & Watkins

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 Noerr White & Case  CMS Hasche Sigle Dentons Hengeler Mueller Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek



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 Aderhold DLA Piper Mayer Brown McDermott Will & Emery  AC Tischendorf Ashurst Baker & McKenzie Buchalik Brömmekamp hww Hermann Wienberg Wilhelm

U R T E I L Strengths: Corporate rescue in the Mittelstand; insolvency administration experience.

Recommended: Dr. Thilo Schultze (“outstanding advice”, client)

Dr. Volker Muschalle

Dr. Hans Schenk

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Restructuring and Insolvency Restructuring and Corporate Rescue

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Restructuring and Corporate Rescue Comment: This firm, which is recommended for restructuring, is bringing its traditional strengths into play, even in a quieter market, as it advises both companies and insolvency administrators on insolvency aspects. The advisors’ profiles also include more corporate-based advice to Mittelstand companies on restructuring outside of acute crisis situations, as well as M&A transactions. In Stuttgart, competitors praise the firm’s takeover of trustee work. The work of senior Dr. Volker Grub for Windreich founder Willi Balz against his former advisors from Flick Gocke Schaumburg is unusual. Strengths: Corporate rescue in the Mittelstand; insolvency administration experience. Recommended: Dr. Thilo Schultze (“outstanding advice”, client), Dr. Volker Muschalle, Dr. Hans Schenk.

Practice: Restructuring and crisis advice, mainly to the Mittelstand. Also on a national level for large companies; on the creditor side for credit institutes and real estate service providers. Extensive support to the Grub Brugger ►insolvency administrators, frequent trustee work. (10 partners, 6 associates) Clients: •Oaktree on acquisition of NPL portfolio Commerzbank/ Hypothekenbank Frankfurt (€700m); •Bielomatik Leuze on corporate rescue and filing for insolvency; •Ambrosius Messebau on sale by administrator Hermann; •shareholder of Reifen Ihle Group on filing for insolvency and sales; •Louis Gnatz on corporate rescue finance, restructuring and sales.

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Restructuring and Insolvency Insolvency Administration Insolvency Administration

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 Dr. Beck & Partner Görg hww Hermann Wienberg Wilhelm Jaffé Kebekus et Zimmermann White & Case



 BBL Bernsau Brockdorff & Partner Brinkmann & Partner Pluta Schneider Geiwitz & Partner Schultze & Braun Wellensiek



 Flöther & Wissing Hoefer Schmidt-Thieme

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Kübler Leonhardt Rattunde Müller-Heydenreich Bierbach & Kollegen Schmidt-Jortzig Petersen Penzlin  Anchor AndresPartner Johlke Niethammer & Partner Niering Stock Tömp Piepenburg Gerling Dr. Ringstmeier & Kollegen  BRL Boege Rohde Luebbehuesen Eckert FRH Fink Rinckens Heerma Reimer Voigt Salus

Insolvency Administration Comment: This firm recommended in insolvency administration is staying true to its calm, careful approach to handling proceedings and enjoys a strong standing in its core Stuttgart region, despite tough competition. The decades of administration experience are gradually being offered at other Baden-Württemberg courts and lead to high-profile proceedings, e.g. housing company GVV Singen. In the major Armstrong DLW proceedings, the firm presented an international investor solution. Recommended: Dr. Wolfgang Bilgery, Martin Mucha. Practice: Insolvency administration regularly in Stuttgart, Pforzheim, Rottweil and Ludwigsburg. Employment practice; broad practice for ►restructuring and corporate rescue. (4 partners, 5 associates in administration) Appointments: •Armstrong DLW (Heilbronn); •Neue Textilveredelung Wangen (Ravensburg); •Vögele Apparatebau (Tübingen). Trustee: •GVV Städtische Wohnbaugesellschaft Singen (Konstanz); •MWK Renningen (Ludwigsburg).

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Martin Mucha

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