CMS Hasche Sigle moves to Potsdamer Platz geared for further growth in Berlin

On 20 November 2006 CMS Hasche Sigle is moving into new premises in the tower house near Potsdamer Platz. The 140 partners, associates and employees will have approx. 4,000 m² of office space in Lennéstraße 7.

Dr Jens Moraht, managing partner of CMS Hasche Sigle, Berlin: "The development of the office in recent years has been very dynamic. The increase in personnel has therefore led to a need to expand our office capacity. Unlike our current location on the Gendarmenmarkt, the 10-floor tower house in its central position on the Postdamer Platz looking out over the Tiergarten is ideal for our purposes. We are delighted not only to have found a nice, suitable property but also a very professional landlord in the Bayerische Versorgungskammer."

The move to Potsdamer Platz, one of the central areas of development in Berlin, is also an expression of CMS Hasche Sigle's close local links with the capital city of Berlin. The successes of the Berlin office speak for themselves: Unlike many competitors CMS Hasche Sigle is thereby placing its faith in further growth in the capital. The main focuses of the office (which also has a notary's office) are corporate, M&A, private equity, real property and construction, financing, tax, employment and intellectual property.

The new address is:
CMS Hasche Sigle
Lennéstraße 7
10785 Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0)30/20360-0
Fax: +49 (0)30/20360-2000
E-mail: Berlin@cms-hs.com

For details about the new office building please see:
http:// www.schweger-architekten.eu /projekte/index_html?cpath=/DE/Projekte/realisiert/Buerobauten/Turmhaus

Contact CMS Hasche Sigle:

Dr Jens Moraht, managing partner, Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 / 203 60 - 1809
E-mail: Jens.Moraht@cms-hs.com

About CMS Hasche Sigle:

CMS Hasche Sigle is one of the leading German law firms with more than 450 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, Cologne, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Dresden, Brussels, Belgrade, Moscow, Prague 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 47 business centres in Europe and further afield on legal and tax issues.
Local strength, legal and tax advice tailored to the requirements of the market combined with a substantial amount of business and organisational integration form the basis for high-quality international legal advice.

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 57 offices in 23 countries in Western and Central Europe, North and South America, Asia and North Africa.

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