Worldwide agency Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is about to open its fifth workplace in Germany—this one in Berlin.
The brand new workplace will bolster the agency’s presence throughout Germany, the agency stated. Quinn Emanuel presently has workplaces in Mannheim, Hamburg, Munich, and Stuttgart.
The Berlin workplace shall be staffed with as much as 10 attorneys headed up by German managing accomplice Marcus Grosch, who will break up his time between the Berlin, Mannheim and Munich workplaces, in line with a agency assertion.
Grosch has been with Quinn Emanuel for 12 years and opened its first German workplace in Mannheim again in 2010.
The agency stated its new workplace is the logical subsequent step following “super development” in Germany lately.
“From our perspective, the recruitment market in Berlin is promising—our objective within the quick time period is to rent a staff of excellent attorneys,” Grosch stated in a press release. “As well as, proximity to our shoppers has at all times been an vital think about our alternative of location and in addition performs a serious position with regard to Berlin.”
Quinn Emanuel’s core focus in Germany contains mental property, business litigation, finance, regulatory, and competitors litigation work. Its regional consumer base contains a number of heavyweights similar to Daimler, Google, and BASF, amongst others.
A date for the launch of the brand new workplace has not but been set however a spokesperson stated it’s set to open “quickly.”
Final week, the agency introduced it was shaking up its management for the primary time in its 36-year historical past, appointing two co-managing companions as co-founder and longtime managing accomplice John Quinn transitions to the newly created position of chairman.
Elsewhere in Europe, the agency final 12 months misplaced business prison legislation knowledgeable Volker Rosengarten to Noerr in Zurich. And the agency is representing Ukraine in inter-state proceedings in opposition to the Russian Federation on the European Court docket of Human Rights in Strasbourg for alleged “large human rights violations” within the conflict in Ukraine.
Along with the 5 workplaces in Germany, Quinn Emanuel has 5 different workplaces in Europe: in Belgium, Switzerland, the U.Ok. and two in France.