SCHWEIBERT LESSMANN featured again in Who’s Who Legal in 2018

With partners Nicole Engesser Means, Dr. Jochen Leßmann and Dr. Ulrike Schweibert of the Frankfurt office and Prof. Dr. Anja Mengel who joined the partnership in January 2019 in the newly established Berlin office, SCHWEIBERT LESSMANN featured once again as law firm with prominent experts for labour, employment as well as benefits law in 2018.

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Rekordfinanzierung: Fintech N26 angelt sich mit Inhouseteam und Osborne Clarke neue Gesellschafter

Just in time for our 5th anniversary we take the next step and move to bigger offices on the 5th floor of the Emporium in Mendelssohnstraße 87, 60325 Frankfurt. The building is located centrally at the corner of Bockheimer Landstraße and next to the underground station Westend. For our visitors we can offer parking spaces in the garage.

Apart from our change of location everything else remains the same: Telephone numbers, emailaddresses and our team.

Jointly with Kirkland & Ellis International LLP Schweibert Leßmann has advised private equity investors Bain Capital and Cinven in a joint public takeover offer for German pharmaceutical company Stada Arzneimittel AG (Stada). Bain Capital and Cinven offer EUR 65.28 plus a dividend of EUR 0.72 per Stada share. The executive board and the supervisory board of Stada announced that they have decided to support the offer by Bain Capital and Cinven.

With a total value of approximately EUR 5.3 billion, the takeover is likely to be the largest private equity transaction ever realized in the German market.

Together with Kirkland & Ellis Schweibert Leßmann has advised Creat Group Corporation, a Chinese investment group focused on long-term strategic investments in healthcare and pharma as well as manufacturing, energy, finance, natural resources and real estate, on the public takeover of Biotest AG, a supplier of plasma protein products and biotherapeutic drugs headquartered in Germany.

Tiancheng (Germany) Pharmaceutical Holdings AG, a subsidiary of Creat Group Corporation, announced today that it will enter into a business combination agreement with Biotest AG and plans a voluntary public takeover offer at a price of €28.50 per ordinary share and €19.00 per preference share.

The €940 million transaction is one of the largest investments by a Chinese company in the Western health sector.

February 2017:

We are pleased that WirtschaftsWoche lists Schweibert Leßmann & Partner as one of the 27 leading law firms for employment law, in particular naming our partner Dr. Ulrike Schweibert (Issue 7, 10 Feb 2017).

On behalf of WirtschaftsWoche the Handelsblatt Research Institut determined a short list based on recommendations by colleagues. In a second step a commission of experts from inhouse lawyers, academics and representatives of business associations established the final ranking.

JUVE has nominated Schweibert Leßmann & Partner for this years “Employment Law Firm of the Year” award as well as for the Founder’s award.

The leading branch magazine for business lawyers JUVE every year honors law firms and in-house teams with the JUVE Awards whose work and market position attract attention. The decision is based on information resulting from the research for the JUVE Handbook Business Law Firms. The selection of the winners is in particularly based on legal expertise, business strategy and future potential.

The winners will be announced on 29 October 2015 at a gala in the Alte Oper Frankfurt.

Further information (in German) is available under http://www.juve.de/awards.

FOCUS survey again lists Schweibert Leßmann & Partner among the leading law firms for employment law in Germany. The results of FOCUS’ annual survey are presented in a special edition of the magazine which lists the TOP Business Law Lawyers in different categories.

On behalf of Focus Magazin Verlag, the Research Institute Statista in Hamburg determined the list based on recommendations from colleagues in other law firms as well as from inhouse lawyers.