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CMS Hasche Sigle appoints 11 new partners as of 2008

27/12/2007

CMS Hasche Sigle's continuing expansion is reflected in the appointment of eleven new partners as of 1 January 2008, bringing the total number of partners to 190.

The new appointments underline CMS Hasche Sigle's commitment to its successful full service approach. Five of the new appointments are to the corporate law department – one of the most highly regarded on the market. The other six comprise two new appointments each in the field of capital markets and IT, and one each in the fields of employment and real estate/construction.

Cornelius Brandi, Managing Partner: "The new partners are proven specialists in their fields and a great asset to our clients and the firm. These eleven new appointments prove once again that CMS Hasche Sigle is one of the few major commercial law firms which give successful young lawyers a realistic chance of partnership."

The new partners are as follows:

Dr Andrea Bonnani (36) – with the employment law section of CMS Hasche Sigle Cologne (formerly Norton Rose) since 2001

Dr Markus Häuser (38) – with the IT section of CMS Hasche Sigle Munich since 2001

Dr Hilke Herchen (33) – with the corporate section of CMS Hasche Sigle Hamburg since 2002

Dr Joachim Kaetzler (36) – with the capital markets section of CMS Hasche Sigle Frankfurt since 2003

Philipp Melzer (34) – with the capital markets section of CMS Hasche Sigle Frankfurt since 2001

Christian Runte (37) – with the IT section of CMS Hasche Sigle Munich since 2000

Felix Schaefer (37) – with the corporate section of CMS Hasche Sigle Duesseldorf since 2001

Dr Alexandra Schluck-Amend (36) – with the corporate and insolvency section of CMS Hasche Sigle Stuttgart since 2002

Isabell Schreyger (39) – with the real estate/construction section of CMS Hasche Sigle Cologne (formerly Norton Rose) since 2001

Rolf-Christian Stratz (44) – with the corporate and tax sections of CMS Hasche Sigle Leipzig since 2005

Alexander Taft (36) – with the corporate section of CMS Hasche Sigle Munich since 2002


Contact CMS Hasche Sigle

Cornelius Brandi, Managing Partner
Tel: +49 (0) 30 / 203 60- 1207
E-mail: Cornelius.Brandi@cms-hs.com

About CMS Hasche Sigle

CMS Hasche Sigle is one of the leading German law firms with more than 500 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. It has offices in Berlin, Cologne, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Dresden, Brussels, Belgrade, Moscow and Shanghai.

CMS Hasche Sigle is a partnership of lawyers and tax consultants; for register details / list of partners see www.cms-hs.com

CMS Hasche Sigle is a member of CMS, an alliance of leading independent European law firms. With over 595 partners, a total of 2,000 lawyers and tax consultants and around 4,200 support staff we advise our clients at commercial locations in 48 business centres in Europe and further afield on legal and tax issues.

In addition to CMS Hasche Sigle, the following firms are also members of the CMS alliance: CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni (Italy), CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo (Spain), CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre (France), CMS Cameron McKenna LLP (Great Britain), CMS DeBacker (Belgium), CMS Derks Star Busmann (the Netherlands), CMS von Erlach Henrici (Switzerland) and CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz (Austria). CMS has 58 offices in 25 countries around the world.

For further information on CMS Hasche Sigle see www.cms-hs.com and on the CMS alliance see http://www.cmslegal.com.