The Belgian law firms CMS Lexcelis and DeBacker are to merge with effect from 01.01.2005. A
strategic move both for the CMS association, which will benefit from being able to further expand
its market position in the Belgian and international markets for legal advice, and for the two
firms which will henceforth bear the name CMS DeBacker. The merger of the two commercial law firms,
the fields of business of which ideally complement each other, meets the criterion for the position
of the new law firm, which has offices in Brussels and Antwerp, as one of the leading full-service
law firms in the country.
CMS Lexcelis, the Belgian founder member of the CMS association, has an excellent reputation
in the fields of corporate, banking, property and employment law. Further key areas of activity of
the approx. 25 lawyers are tax law and intellectual property. The strengths of the approx. 30
lawyers from DeBacker are in the fields of M&A, banking and insurance and public commercial
law. DeBacker also has a highly regarded corporate law litigation practice. The reputable
international law firm listings "Legal500" includes CMS Lexcelis and DeBacker among the TOP 10 in
numerous fields.
Cornelius Brandi, Managing Partner of the German member of the CMS Association CMS Hasche
Sigle said that the merger is an "excellent decision for both firms on the basis of which CMS will
also be able to further expand its leading position in the field of international commercial legal
advice. The merger of CMS Lexcelis and DeBacker underlines the further expansion of the association
in the same way as the recent accession of the Spanish commercial law firm Albiñana & Suárez de
Lezo."
In addition to CMS Lexcelis and CMS Hasche Sigle, the following firms are also members of the
CMS association: CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni (Italy), CMS Albiñana & Suárez de
Lezo (Spain), CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre (France), CMS Cameron McKenna (UK), CMS Derks Star
Busmann (the Netherlands), CMS von Erlach Klainguti Stettler Wille (Switzerland) and CMS
Reich-Rohrwig Hainz (Austria) with a total of 1,900 lawyers and 56 offices in 24 jurisdictions.
This network enables CMS Hasche Sigle to offer integrated and extensive legal advice for
cross-border projects.
Contact CMS Hasche Sigle:
Cornelius Brandi
Tel.: +49(0)30 / 20360-156
E-mail:
Cornelius.Brandi@cms-hs.com
Background:
CMS Hasche Sigle is one of the leading German law firms with more than 350 lawyers. It covers
the entire area of commercial law and provides legal advice to major German and international
companies from a wide spectrum of industry.
CMS Hasche Sigle operates at all the major business centres. It has offices in Berlin,
Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Dresden, Brussels, Belgrade,
Moscow, Prague and Shanghai.
The law firm is a founding partner of CMS, a European association of reputable law firms with
more than 1,800 lawyers. In addition to CMS Hasche Sigle, the following firms are also members of
the CMS association: CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni (Italy), CMS Albiñana & Suárez
de Lezo (Spain), CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre (France), CMS Cameron McKenna (UK), CMS Derks Star
Busmann (the Netherlands), CMS von Erlach Klainguti Stettler Wille (Switzerland), CMS Lexcelis
(Belgium) and CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz (Austria) with a total of 56 offices in 24 jurisdictions.
This network enables CMS Hasche Sigle to offer integrated and extensive legal advice for
cross-border projects.
Further information:
CMS Hasche Sigle Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten und Steuerberatern
Contact details/List of partners at
www.cms-hs.com
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