OUR FIRM

In 1990 Prof. Dr. Gerhard H. Waechter and Ms. Suanne Remes moved from practicing at major international law firms in Frankfurt and Munich to Berlin. After stints working in-house for the German government’s privatization agency the “Treuhandanstalt”, they founded their law firm together in 1992 and have since been focusing on M & A, Venture Capital, Litigation/ Arbitration, Company, Business Law as well as Energy Law (S. Remes only).

Prof. Dr. Waechter and Ms. Remes attend to their clients in person but also provide access to additional reliable outside counsel and sources, where needed. Thanks to advantageous costs structures the hourly rates of Gerhard H. Waechter and Ms. Remes remain significantly below the rates of partners at large law firms, all the while serving their clients at the same and often higher level of competence and efficiency.

Prof. Dr. Waechter has led approx.100 M & A and VC transactions, litigated or arbitrated around 160 M&A-related cases and approx. 40 other business law cases. He is the author of a leading German language textbook “M&A Litigation” (3rd ed. 2017, 800 pages) and publishes and speaks on M&A issues regularly. Gerhard H. Waechter teaches at Leipzig University where he has been appointed an honorary professor…

Ms. Remes has led over 30 M & A transactions and advises and represents medium-sized companies in a variety of situations. She is an expert in the field of energy law and herself successfully involved in an energy company …