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The roots and earliest client relationships of our Frankfurt office date back to the early 1970s, and the firm has been a trusted adviser to businesses ever since. Today, CMS has a team of more than 75 lawyers based in the city’s Riverside Financial District, with the geographical proximity to Frankfurt’s banking and finance centre reflecting the strong position of our banking and finance practice, in particular when it comes to capital market law, asset management and structuring fund products.

Alongside our banking and finance work, our practice also includes private equity, commercial and corporate law, M&A, labour and employment, tax and antitrust law. We regularly advise clients on high-value real estate transactions and can also provide you with specialist insolvency law expertise.

Contact us to find out how you can benefit from our know-how in one of Europe’s major financial centres. Our legal experts and sector-specific teams look forward to working with you in Frankfurt!


Location

CMS Hasche Sigle
Neue Mainzer Straße 2–4
60311 Frankfurt
Germany

Directions

By plane

Frankfurt airport is approx. 12 kilometres from the CMS Frankfurt office which will take about 20 minutes by taxi.

By car

Visitors’ parking is available in our underground car park. Access to the car park is next to the main entrance off Neue Mainzer Straße.

By train

From Frankfurt main station it’s a twelve-minute walk to our office.

Alternatively, you can use public transport (U-Bahn):

From Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof (train station): Take the U5 (towards Preungesheim) or the U4 (towards Seckbacher Landstraße or Enkheim) and get off at Willy-Brandt-Platz. Follow the exit signs "Städtische Bühnen" / "Weißfrauenstraße" for Neue Mainzer Straße 2-4 (about 150 m).

From Hauptwache: Take the U1, U2 , U3 or U8 lines (towards Südbahnhof) and get off at Willy-Brandt-Platz. Follow the exit signs "Städtische Bühnen" / "Weißfrauenstraße" for Neue Mainzer Straße 2-4 (about 150 m).

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