K&L Gates Poaches German Team from Freshfields

K&L Gates has snagged a four-lawyer team from the Berlin office of Freshfields.

Partner Ludwig Hausmann joins the Berlin office of K&L Gates, along with principal associate Annette Mutschler-Siebert, who joins as counsel. They bring along two associates.

K&L Gates’ German offices, in Berlin and Frankfurt, now have 45 lawyers.

K&L Gates LLP employs over 1900 attorneys worldwide, and is ranked as the 7th largest law firm in the world. It was formed in January 2007, by the merger of Pittsburgh-based Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham with Seattle-based Preston Gates & Ellis, co-founded by William H. Gates, Sr.

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Posted by Erik Even on June 16, 2009. Filed under Law Firm News,Legal News,World News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry