The Legal 500 Deutschland 2022: open call for submissions
The season for law firm directories in Germany is open with less than three months to prepare. Some new practice areas have been added, including M&A for smaller deals section and a patent attorney ranking.
Please pay attention that an international firm or the multi-office domestic German firms should submit for the national section by practice area.
The law firms traditionally submit the information about the previous year's key projects, the team, and the firm's development over the past year.
Your submission must highlight to the researchers what makes your firm unique. The referees are the firm's clients and other lawyers that can recommend the firm in the selected law practice or region.
You can find templates of submissions and referee spreadsheets on The Legal 500 website.
Recently the legal directories are paying increased attention to how the law firms deal with diversity and inclusivity issues. On 8 March, The Legal 500 released a study on gender diversity in Germany. You can find the statistics in fivehundred magazine.
The deadline for the German jurisdiction is 31 May 2021.
Smartiee provides the legal firms with comprehensive support in submitting English documents to the legal directories. We help legal firms to define their positioning and unique selling points and aid with the complex and labor-intensive submission process (more details).
Practice areas:
- Antitrust (Antitrust and Antitrust litigation)
- Banking and finance (Financial services: regulatory,
- Fintech, Investment funds, Lending and borrowing, Project finance, Real estate finance)
- Capital markets (Debt capital markets, High-yield, Equity capital markets, Structured finance, and securitization)
- Compliance (Compliance, Internal investigations)
- Corporate and M&A (Corporate, Corporate and shareholder disputes, M&A: large deals (€500m+), M&A: mid-sized deals (€100m-€500m), M&A: smaller deals (sub-€100m))
- Dispute resolution (Arbitration (including international arbitration), Commercial Litigation, Financial services: litigation, Product liability)
- Employment
- Food law and consumer goods
- Industry focus (Energy, Healthcare and life sciences, Telecoms)
- Information and technology (Data protection, Information technology, and digitalization, IT transactions and outsourcing)
- Insurance
- Intellectual property (Patent litigation, Patent Litigation: Patent attorneys, Patent prosecution, Trademarks, Unfair competition)
- Media (Entertainment, Copyright disputes, Digital content, Gaming, Press and publishing)
- Private clients and non-profits
- Private equity (PE transactions, Fund formation, Venture capital)
- Public sector (Commercial administrative law, Planning and environment, Product-related advice, Waste management, Public procurement, State aid)
- Real estate and Construction (Construction (including construction litigation) and project development, Plant construction, Real estate)
- Restructuring and Insolvency
- Tax (Tax, Criminal tax law)
- Trade and distribution (Foreign trade law; Trade, distribution, and logistics)
- Transport (Advice to the transport sector, Maritime and shipping, Ship financing)
- White-collar crime (Advice to companies, Advice to individuals).
Participating Regions
The regional section is researching domestic and local firms with one or two offices concerning their capabilities in all aspects of commercial law in the following regions:
- Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region,
- Central German Metropolitan Region including Dresden,
- Cologne,
- Düsseldorf,
- Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region,
- Hamburg Metropolitan Region,
- Hannover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region,
- Metropolitan Region of Bremen/Oldenburg,
- Munich Metropolitan Region,
- Nuremberg Metropolitan Region and Franconia,
- Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region,
- Ruhr Valley/Westphalia,
- Schleswig-Holstein,
- Stuttgart Metropolitan Region.
