Mayer Brown LLP

About this office:

The firm was formed as a result of the merger between the Frankfurt office of GAEDERTZ Rechtsanwälte and the U.S. law firm Mayer, Brown & Platt in April 2001 followed by the merger with the U.K. law firm Rowe & Maw in February 2002.

Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw has more than 1300 legal professionals in 13 offices located in Brussels, Charlotte, Chicago, Cologne, Frankfurt, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, New York, Palo Alto, Paris, Washington D.C.

The German offices, known under the firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Gaedertz, are located in Frankfurt am Main and Cologne. Admitted to practice in Germany, they handle Commercial and Corporate law with emphasis on Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking and Securities, Contracts, Corporate Taxation, Real Estate, Unfair Competition and Antitrust, Intellectual Property, Telecommunication and New Media, Product Liability, Labor, Food and Drug, EC law, Litigation and Arbitration.

Our lawyers have been advising locally-based and international clients in Germany for almost half a century. Our Frankfurt office combines in-depth knowledge of the German corporate and environment with the resources and expertise of a major international law firm.

Antitrust, Appellate, Asia, Bankruptcy, Biotech, Pharma & Life Science, Chemicals, Collateralized Debt Obligation, Company Secretarial, Construction & Engineering, Corporate & Securities, Corporate Governance, Derivatives, E-commerce, Emerging Companies, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Employee Share Incentives, Employment & Labour, Energy, Environment, Finance, Financial Services, Global Trade, Government, Government Contracts, Health Care, Information Technology, Insurance & Reinsurance, Intellectual Property, International Arbitration, Investment Management, Latin America, Legislative, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Natural Resources, Outsourcing, Pensions, PPP/PFI & Infrastructure, Private Equity, Private Investment Fund, Pro Bono, Professional Practices, Project Finance, Property Rights, Public Law, Rail, Real Estate, Regulated Industries, Restructuring & Insolvency, Securitisation, Tax Controversy & Transfer Pricing, Tax Transactions & Consulting, Telecommunications & Media, Venture & Technology, Wealth Management.

The Second Financial Market Stabilization Act
Marius A. Boewe,Carsten Flasshoff,Simon G. Grieser,Kai Liebrich,Jörg Wulfken,Heinrich von Bünau, February 10, 2012
The German Parliament (Bundestag) and the Bundesrat have resolved the 2nd Financial Market Stabilization Act (2nd FMStG, the Act). It will soon come into force. The Act empowers the Financial Market Stabilization Fund (SoFFin) again to provide stabilization measures according to the Financial...

Refund of German Withholding Taxes - Good News for Foreign Investors
Ingo Kleutgens,Heiko Penndorf, January 11, 2012
In its decision dated October 20, 2011, (Case C-284/09), the court of justice of the European Union, (ECJ), has held that Germany violates the principle of free movement of capital as set out in the rules of the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). It does so to the extent that...

European Commission Seeks Views on the Technology Transfer Block Exemption
Sarah Byrt,Kiran S. Desai,Nathalie Jalabert Doury,Sangeeta Puran,Jens Peter Schmidt,Gillian Sproul,Ulrich Worm, December 26, 2011
The European Commission is inviting comments on the application of EU competition rules for the assessment of technology transfer agreements due to the upcoming expiry of the current Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (“TTBE”).

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