Flick Gocke Schaumburg is strengthening its focus on the energy sector with the arrival of three new associated partners. Dr. Christoph Sieberg, Dr. Thilo Richter and Dr. Margret Schellberg are to join the firm from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in January 2017. They are all specialists in energy and public commercial law.

Flick Gocke Schaumburg has appointed four equity partners and nine associated partners from its own ranks as of January 1, 2017. This brings the total number of equity partners to 57 and associated partners to 58 from the beginning of next year.

Flick Gocke Schaumburg is expanding its private equity/venture capital practice in Munich with two new partners. Christian Schatz (42) and Dr. Martin Brockhausen (39) are renowned experts in fund structuring. They are joining the firm from King & Wood Mallesons, where they have many years of experience in advising company founders and investors on private equity, venture capital, infrastructure, debt, and real estate.

The German news magazine Focus has published its rankings of top commercial law firms for 2016. The rankings are based on the recommendations of almost 9,500 lawyers and around 3,400 inhouse counsels surveyed by the Hamburg-based statistics company Statista on behalf of Focus. Statista then drew up recommendation lists in 24 categories. Firms with the most lawyer recommendations across all categories were placed on the list of “Germany’s top commercial law firms”.

Flick Gocke Schaumburg was honored as “German Tax Law Firm of the Year” and “German Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year” at the ITR European Tax Awards 2016. Partners Prof. Hubertus Baumhoff and Dr. Xaver Ditz accepted the awards on behalf of the firm on May 26.

Flick Gocke Schaumburg was selected as “Law Firm of the Year: Germany” at The Lawyer European Awards 2016. The awards were presented at a gala in London on March 9, 2016. Partners Dr. Xaver Ditz, Bonn, and Dr. Markus Mick, Frankfurt, accepted the award on behalf of the firm.

Professor Hans Fleisch has joined the Berlin office of Flick Gocke Schaumburg as an Of Counsel. The 57-year-old lawyer and expert in foundations has many years of experience with the establishment, strategic positioning, and organization of foundations. He will be part of the firm’s succession, foundation, and NPO practice.