Oppenhoff & Partner

Oppenhoff & Partner
Oppenhoff & Partner
Headquarters Cologne
No. of offices 1
No. of attorneys 50
Major practice areas Legal advice
Date founded 1908 (Cologne)
Company type German partnership
Website
www.oppenhoff.eu

Oppenhoff & Partner is a German commercial law firm specialised in the provision of legal advice to internationally operating entrepreneurs and enterprises. The law firm, which has its seat in Cologne, is an independent partnership and is not affiliated to any network or other alliance, as is often the case with other law firms.[1]

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History

The office Oppenhoff & Partner was founded in 1908 in Cologne under the name Becker, Ströhmer and Lang. Walter Oppenhoff joined the firm in 1930 as named partner, led it through the World War II, inter alia as the alien property custodian of Coca-Cola, and expanded the firm in the post-war years.

The following office partners Boden, Oppenhoff und Schneider have exerted a considerable influence on the German laws governing the legal profession. In 1989 they successfully fought for the right to set up nationwide partnerships before the Federal Court of Justice of Germany, resulting in the establishment of the partnership Oppenhoff & Rädler in the mid 1990s.

In the year 2001 the firm merged with the English commercial law firm Linklaters. Since January 2008 Oppenhoff & Partner has returned to being an independent partnership situated in Cologne, with about 120 employees, including 50 lawyers.[2] [3] Partners of the preceding partnership Oppenhoff & Rädler set up the Walter Oppenhoff Foundation in honour of its founding member of the same name.

Main practice areas

  • Corporate Law / Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Tax Law
  • Employment Law
  • Corporate Insurance
  • Real Estate Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Information, Technology & Communications (IT&C)
  • Public Law / Regulatory
  • Litigation and Arbitration
  • Antitrust law
  • Compliance Group

Notable mandates

  • Advised US Automotive Group Johnson Controls on the acquisition of Westfalia Profiltechnik in Germany (July 2008).
  • Advised international engineering and construction group Balfour Beatty on the acquisition of the German rail construction Schreck-Mieves group (June 2008).
  • Advising M. DuMont Schauberg, the fourth largest German newspaper publisher, on the takeover of Berliner Zeitung, the highest-circulated daily newspaper in the capital (January 2009).
  • Frowein & Co. Beteiligungs AG, a company specialised in company holdings in small and medium-sized businesses, has taken over the S.I.M.E.O.N. Group in Tuttlingen. S.I.M.E.O.N., a medical engineering company supported by Oppenhoff & Partner (December 2008).
  • A partner of the firm advised Schaeffler Group during their takeover attempt of Continental AG.[4]

References

  • „Eiskalt – Coca-Cola und das deutsche Reich. Eine deutsche Erfrischungsgeschichte“. Film about Walter Oppenhoff and Coca-Cola (WDR 1999)

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