An insight into the sophisticated and distinctive legal market in Frankfurt, Germany’s financial and banking centre and home to the European Central Bank.
Life is never dull for Curtis’ Frankfurt team, which serves a strong domestic client base alongside a high level of international clients with interests in Germany.
In this episode, Kate Fairweather meets a variety of lawyers at different stages of their career and across a range of disciplines.
International investment funds lawyers Tobias Koch and Jan Schoberwalter describe the range of clients and their different paths into investment funds work – as well as the need for an open personality for this sociable area of law;
Disputes partner Sabine Schmidt shares her experience in commercial dispute resolution as both an arbitrator and as counsel. She also explains why law and industry custom are equally important when representing sports law clients before the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal;
Senior tax lawyer Christian Fingerhut on the combination of technically complex work with client relations alongside dealing with at least one and often more tax authorities and regulators. He outlines the range of skills a tax lawyer needs, to work in the ‘overlap’ between accountancy and law and the constant regulatory changes;
Corporate partner Kim Rissel describes working with the “hidden champions” of Germany’s industrial sector and offers some strong and very practical advice to law students.
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