CMS strengthens its team with US expert Dr Kai Westerwelle

Berlin – As of May 1, 2024, Dr Kai Westerwelle joined CMS as a partner and strengthens the team headed by experienced CMS partners Dr Eckart Gottschalk and Dr Nicolas Wiegand, who will drive forward business development and marketing activities with US focus. Together, they will raise CMS’s profile as an international commercial law firm vis-à-vis US companies, US law firms and global corporations operating in the US and drive the expansion of the US business.

Dr Kai Westerwelle is a Certified Specialist Lawyer for IT law and has more than 25 years of professional experience in leading European law firms in Germany. He has been based in Silicon Valley and San Francisco for almost ten years. There he has already successfully co-founded and scaled US offices of two major international law firms. He will now contribute his valuable experience in this area to CMS from his location in Silicon Valley. He specializes in IT and data protection law, tech transactions and international expansions. He mostly advises international clients, in particular US tech companies.

Dr Eckart Gottschalk: "I am very pleased that with Dr Kai Westerwelle we have been able to attract a proven expert with many years of experience in the US market and excellent contacts in the USA." Dr Nicolas Wiegand added: "Together we will successfully expand our presence in the USA and the international advice we have been providing to US companies for many years."

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