Helge Heinrich and Jan-Oliver Schrotz have joined Addleshaw Goddard's corporate and commercial division, further strengthening the firm's office in Germany.

Heinrich joins from Noerr, where he was a partner in the firm's antitrust and regulatory practices.

Schrotz joins from BDO Legal, where he was a partner focused on European competition law and public sector business law.

The duo will expand Addleshaw's range of services in areas of the German market that show significant potential for growth, such as German and EU competition law, compliance, litigation, state aid and public procurement, the firm said.

"Jan-Oliver and Helge are a perfect addition to our transactional corporate M&A practice, our finance practice and in particular, our transport practice where we really have a market edge, particularly in rail," Michael Leue, head of Addleshaw's Hamburg office, said in a statement.

The firm added that the two will give Addlesahw access to German and European companies in the insurance, public transportation, health care, consumer electronics and automotive sectors.

Addleshaw last year hired a 10-lawyer Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner team, including two partners, to launch its office in Hamburg—its first in continental Europe and sixth outside the U.K. The two new additions bring the number of German partners to seven.

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