Freshfields quartet quits to join K&L Gates Berlin office
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has lost a four-lawyer team in Berlin with the departure of public procurement partner Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann to K&L Gates. Hausmann will join the US firm along with principal associate Annette Mutschler-Siebert - who joins as counsel - and two other associates. Hausmann has been with the magic circle firm since 1996, making partner in 2002. He and his team advise on public procurement and public private partnerships (PPPs) as well as antitrust, state aid and trade.
June 15, 2009 at 10:07 AM
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has lost a four-lawyer team in Berlin with the departure of public procurement partner Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann to K&L Gates.
Hausmann will join the US firm along with principal associate Annette Mutschler-Siebert – who joins as counsel – and two other associates.
Hausmann has been with the magic circle firm since 1996, making partner in 2002. He and his team advise on public procurement and public private partnerships (PPPs) as well as antitrust, state aid and trade.
He will be the first partner focusing on public procurement and PPPs for K&L Gates in Germany, although the firm already had some capacity in the field.
German administrative partner Ruediger von Huelst said the hire came as the logical expansion to the firm's German practice, adding: "We have decided to form this into one of our core practices here, partly based on our international strength in the area. The hire of this team – and you could not find a better team in the market – gives us an outstanding, well-established practice."
The hire increases the headcount across K&L Gates' offices in Berlin and Frankfurt to 45 lawyers. The firm launched in Berlin two and a half years ago and opened in Frankfurt earlier this year with the hire of a four-lawyer team from top 10 City firm Simmons & Simmons.
This is the second major departure from Freshfields' Berlin office this year, after Olswang recruited an 11-lawyer real estate team from the firm in March.
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