In addition to the two Juve Awards nominations as “Best Law Firm of the Year for Employment Law” and “Best Law Firm of the Year for SMEs”, Orth Kluth is recommended in the Juve Handbook 2022/2023 in the Germany-wide rankings in eight areas of law and is listed as a top 50 law firm in Germany overall. In addition, 13 lawyers are recommended by name.

In the regional ranking for the West (Düsseldorf), Orth Kluth even achieved a place among the top 20 law firms this year: “Broadly positioned medium-sized law firm that counts both corporate groups and medium-sized companies among its regular clients. Increasing number of transactions in growth sectors such as healthcare and energy. Strong practices in employment and construction law. Recently gained prominent reinforcement in IP.”

In detail, Orth Kluth is represented in the national rankings in the following areas of law:

EMPLOYMENT LAW

“Compared to other mid-sized law firms, OK has built up a fairly specialized employment law practice that is well integrated into the firm as a whole. As a result, the team regularly recommends itself to new clients and for more complex projects, such as the delivery service Gorillas. The focus of advice is currently on flexibilization issues, in particular with regard to the new world of work, but also reorganizations and restructurings. OK is further ahead than many law firms when it comes to legal tech/digitalization because it is one of the few medium-sized law firms that has already launched a specially developed tool for the deployment of external staff. The firm hopes that the reinforcement in Berlin will expand its client base in D’dorf, which is heavily influenced by industry. The new Sal. partner brings with him initial contacts in the local start-up scene.”

COMPLIANCE INVESTIGATIONS

“Compliance advice is increasingly developing into a broad-based complete package. Although the criminal law practice remains the driving strategic force, cross-practice mandates, for example with employment and corporate lawyers or data protection experts, are now the norm. This also applies to antitrust law, even though a Sal. partner with only brief in-house experience has since left the firm. However, OK quickly found a professional replacement. The work is characterized above all by a series of permanent mandates, which ensure that OK is regularly involved in current operational problem areas at an early stage. Projects include setting up and auditing compliance systems as well as investigations and representing companies in classic investigations. investigation proceedings. Through a subsidiary, OK also has a corresponding IT infrastructure, for example for whistleblower systems or money laundering prevention – not a matter of course for a law firm of its size.”

CORPORATE LAW

“The firm provides corporate law advice to both SMEs and groups such as TK Elevator. Once again, numerous companies, such as FCF Holding, called on the firm for restructuring. It is also regularly active across borders and bundles its business at its China and France desks, among others. New is the cooperation with the Chinese Chiho Environmental Group. Chiho Environmental Group, which relies on the team for questions regarding shareholder interests in German subsidiaries. It is also continuously expanding its work on directors’ and officers’ liability issues, where the firm works with various insurers. The firm cooperates with various insurers.

Strengths: Broad-based consulting (SMEs and corporations) with a moderate cost structure.”

REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTION LAW

“The firm is primarily known for its construction law advice and maintains stable client relationships with traditional construction companies as well as project developers and investors. Construction companies as well as project developers and investors. The good networking of the practice groups in the Mittelstand law firm as a whole provides the construction lawyers with a continuous influx of industry clients. The good networking in the mid-market practice groups as a whole provides the construction lawyers with a continuous influx of clients from outside the industry who rely entirely on OK for their projects. The firm is making a second attempt to expand its real estate law advice, this time in Berlin. The new addition of Brosende has brought a very promising client to the firm, the Nanz Group, which it is now advising on the construction of several car dealerships.”

CONFLICT RESOLUTION

“The firm is increasingly expanding its industry focus on mobility and transportation to include litigation. Among other things, it has gained a foothold on supplier panels and is particularly involved in recourse, product and directors’ and officers’ liability. The firm handles disputes mainly from the respective practice groups, which limits its profile as a proven disputes practice. With a lateral hire from Taylor Wessing, the firm recently anchored litigation know-how at partner level in Berlin for the first time. However, the move of a litigation-savvy antitrust lawyer to Kleiner is a setback in the development with regard to antitrust damages disputes.”

MA

“The MA practice advises a diverse client base of SMEs, investors and listed companies. corporations. It has positioned itself well in the healthcare sector in recent years and is working with investors on entering the German market, for example. OK has also built up considerable expertise in deals in the energy sector, as demonstrated by its work for Juwi on several wind farm transactions. Thanks to its good internat. Thanks to its good international contacts, the team regularly advises on inbound transactions. investor on the acquisition of a German timber trading company. Clients often make use of the firm’s full-service approach in the long term following transactions.

Strengths: Regularly praised by clients as a cost-effective alternative to large law firms.”

TRADEMARK AND DESIGN LAW / COMPETITION LAW

“The IP practice of the D’dorf law firm has recently expanded its scope of action in trademark and design law in addition to its well-known activity in competition law litigation: OK took over several large IP portfolios (approx. 1,000 trademarks and designs) from the patent law firm Farago as well as two experienced IP lawyers, Kreuzkamp and Müller-Mergenthaler. OK was quickly able to convince some of the new clients in other specialist areas, e.g. in corporate law. In addition, many existing clients such as Schleich, Dr. Kurt Wolff and Bofrost rely on the firm’s extensive IP expertise. IP expertise, which also includes brand portfolio management and license agreements.”

REGULATION / TRANSPORT SECTOR

“In the transport sector, the team led by regulatory and antitrust lawyer Grün and public procurement lawyer Sitsen has firmly established itself with a number of energy supply companies. The law firm not only advises them on regulatory issues or in public procurement proceedings for transport contracts. Rather, the firm has established an integrated sector approach which also includes corporate, financing and IT lawyers. Mobility Inside, for example, is becoming a permanent client. Together with the shareholder Deutsche Bahn, it relied on a cross-practice group team for the conception and legal implementation of an app for the purchase of the 9-euro ticket. With the appointment of a Sal. partner specializing in energy law, the group is strengthening the interface topic of e-mobility, in which it is already advising on a number of public procurement law mandates.”

Our lawyers Dr. Markus Berndt, Dr. Anselm Grün, Dr. Marc Henze, Dr. Ulla Kelp, Dr. Gary Klaft, Dr. Kai-Michael König, Boris Körner, Dr. Guido Matthey, Dr. Philipp Mels, Dr. Christian Meyer, Dr. Robert Orth, Dr. René Runte and Dr. Michael Sitsen are expressly recommended.