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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Germany’s Hengeler Mueller have landed roles on a €500m (£416m) convertible bond sale by sportswear giant Adidas. Banking partner Torsten Busch headed up the Hengeler team advising Adidas, supported by corporate partner Rainer Krause and associate Andreas Stoll.

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US litigation specialist Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has set out ambitious plans to expand across Asia and Europe. The firm has earmarked Germany, Switzerland and Singapore for office launches within the next two years, with an office in Hong Kong planned for a later date. Germany, where Quinn Emanuel launched a two-partner office in Mannheim in 2010, is expected to gain two new bases, with an opening in Hamburg expected imminently and a launch in Munich expected before the end of the year.

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Wragge & Co has set out plans to significantly bulk up its presence in Germany through a merger or large team hire, as the national firm targets a full service offering in the country. The UK top 30 law firm, which currently has a two-partner intellectual property team in Munich, is looking to build up its Germany presence to around the size of its Paris office, which has 42 lawyers, including 12 partners, and turnover of £12m.

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Herbert Smith has set out details of its international expansion plans, with the City law firm hoping to open three offices in Germany in addition to a base in New York in the wake of its failed merger bid with former European alliance partners Gleiss Lutz and Stibbe in November last year. The firm has appointed London corporate managing partner Patrick Mitchell and City corporate partner Alan Montgomery to head a committee dealing with its launch in Germany, where it hopes to open in Frankfurt, Duesseldorf and Munich.

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CMS Hasche Sigle has overtaken Hengeler Mueller to emerge as the largest German law firm by revenue, with the 10 largest firms in the country seeing an average revenue rise of 4% during their last financial year, according to new research. The rankings, compiled by German legal publication Juve, show Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer retaining its position as the largest law firm in Germany with turnover of €334m (£286m), while CMS Hasche Sigle has passed Slaughter and May ally Hengeler with 3.9% revenue growth to rank second with revenues of €212m (£182m).

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Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is set to launch two offices in Germany with the hire of a four-strong team from Linklaters, marking the firm’s first venture into the country. The firm announced today (19 September) that it will open in Berlin and Frankfurt by the end of the year, with a focus on high-end real estate work.

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Linklaters competition partner Carsten Grave has decided to remain with the magic circle law firm nearly two months after it was announced that he would join Mayer Brown’s practice in Cologne. The news comes after the US law firm last month announced the closure of its Berlin and Cologne offices, with Mayer Brown set to launch an office in Duesseldorf at the start of 2012.

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Olswang’s Berlin office has won a key role on Germany’s largest commercial real estate deal so far this year, with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer also advising on the €740m (£652m) transaction. The deal, which has handed roles to a raft of law firms, saw Dundee International become the first-ever Canadian real estate investment trust (REIT) to enter the European market, investing around €740m in a German real portfolio.

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Hogan Lovells has bulked up in Germany with the hire of a five-lawyer corporate team from local outfit Broich Bezzenberger. The team, which is led by partners Karin Arnold and Thomas Keul, joined Hogan Lovells’ Berlin office earlier this week, alongside of counsel Gerold Bezzenberger and two associates.

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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Gleiss Lutz have picked up advisory mandates as German energy companies prepare for the Government’s plans to phase out nuclear power plants by 2022. Herbert Smith’s German alliance partner Gleiss Lutz is advising E.ON in relation to the plans to close all 17 of the country’s nuclear power plants within the next 10 years, which were announced by the German coalition government at the end of May.

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Simmons & Simmons’ Germany banking head is leaving to join Kaye Scholer in a double partner hire for the US firm. Ingrid Kalisch and fellow partner Sandra Pfister will exit Simmons next week to join Kaye Scholer’s German banking and finance practice in Frankfurt on 1 July.

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Eversheds is set to launch an office in Hamburg in response to growing client demand in the region. The office will go live in October this year, with Munich corporate partners Carola Rathke and Sebastian Zeeck due to relocate to Hamburg to co-head the new outfit alongside a team of four associates. The move will gift Eversheds its second presence in Germany. The firm has a total of 24 partners across the country.

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Allen & Overy (A&O) has recruited two partners for its German insurance and private equity practices with lateral hires from Hogan Lovells and Wilkie Farr & Gallagher. Insurance specialist Jan Schroder is set to join A&O’s Dusseldorf office from Hogan Lovells, while Wilkie Farr private equity partner Michael Bernhardt is joining A&O in Frankfurt.

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Bird & Bird is set to launch a six-lawyer office in Hamburg next month. The office, which will open on 1 May, will be the firm’s fourth in Germany and its first new base in Europe since September 2008, when the firm launched in four Central and Eastern Europe countries. Joining the office will be a six-strong team from local boutique Recore Business Lawyers which specialises in real estate, corporate, M&A and restructuring work.

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Germany’s Noerr is set to launch an office in Alicante with a double hire from Hogan Lovells. The office, which will open in the middle of this year, will focus on intellectual property (IP) litigation, strategic trademark management and the management of international trademark and design portfolios.

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A raft of US and European firms have taken roles on Liberty Global’s $4.5bn (£2.8bn) acquisition of Germany’s Kabel Baden-Wuerttemberg (KBW) after a competitive auction led by private equity sellers EQT Partners. US cable operator Liberty instructed both Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and US firm Ropes & Gray on the deal, with the firms advising on M&A and financing respectively.

Co-financed by Marie Curie COFUND the Gerda Henkel Foundation offers fellowships (outgoing and incoming) for postdocs of historical humanities and Islamic studies.

The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme has issued a call for fellowships for the 2013-2014 academic year.

i?1/4i?1/4i?1/4i?1/4The Go8 has announced a new call for applications under its joint research exchange scheme with Germany.

To maintain contact with Germany, former DAAD Research Grant or Study Scholarship holders with funding for more than six months and former DDR (East German) Scholarship holders who studied in Germany for at least one year can apply for a re-invitation. Funding is available for research and working projects at a state or state-recognised (public) university or a non-university research institution. Former graduates working outside the science sector can also apply for funding to cover a working stay at another institution in business or industry, administration, culture or media.

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