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King & Spalding Expands Frankfurt Office
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FRANKFURT, GERMANY--(Marketwire - July 31, 2008) - King & Spalding, a leading international
law firm, announced today that corporate lawyers Andreas Böhme and Susanna
Fuchsbrunner have joined the firm's Frankfurt office as counsel. Their
arrival brings to 8 the total number of lawyers in that office.
"We welcome Susanna and Andreas to our growing team of Frankfurt-based
lawyers," said Scott J. Arnold, co-head of King & Spalding's real estate
capital markets practice. "Their addition provides our Frankfurt office
with additional corporate, private equity and finance expertise and
enhances our ability to work closely with the firm's transactional teams in
New York, London and Dubai. Susanna and Andreas's skill in corporate and
finance matters also complements our existing real estate capital markets
practice in Frankfurt and further expands our ability to execute
sophisticated real estate capital markets work throughout Europe."
Böhme concentrates his practice on finance and restructuring work and
mergers and acquisitions. He also represents buyers and sellers in
distressed-assets transactions. Before joining King & Spalding, Böhme, who
is also qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales, was with the German
law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek in Frankfurt and, before that, with
Kirkland & Ellis in London. He received a J.D. and a Dr. jur. from the
University of Augsburg.
Fuchsbrunner advises financial investors and private equity firms on
private equity transactions involving cross-border mergers and acquisitions
and various exit transactions including dispositions and recapitalizations.
She also represents corporations in strategic transactions. She has
experience in a wide variety of corporate transactional matters, including
LBOs, MBOs and MBIs, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings,
joint ventures and strategic alliances and general corporate and securities
matters. Fuchsbrunner comes to King & Spalding from SJ Berwin LLP, where
she was a senior associate. In addition, she practiced for several years
with a leading U.S. law firm in New York. She was educated at the
University of Munich and Fordham University School of Law, New York, and
holds a graduate degree in business administration (Diplom-Kauffrau) from
the University of Hagen School of Business. She is an adjunct professor at
the University of Applied Sciences, School of Business, in Ludwigshafen,
Germany. She is admitted to practice law in Germany and in the state of New
York.
King & Spalding's real estate practice is one of the U.S. leaders in real
estate capital markets, and it has earned a reputation for investment fund
organization, creative structuring of real estate company mergers and
acquisitions and for working on complex equity and debt financing
transactions for domestic and non-U.S. investors. King & Spalding has been
handling real estate matters for German-based open and closed-end funds or
funds of funds in the United States for 30 years and now advises many of
those same clients on their European real estate investments, including
their cross-border transactions, joint ventures and portfolio transfers.
The firm opened its Frankfurt office in September 2007 to respond to
growing client demand in the areas of real estate capital markets, finance,
corporate and tax.
About King & Spalding
King & Spalding is an international law firm with more than 800 lawyers in
Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Dubai, Frankfurt, Houston, London,
New York, Riyadh (affiliated office), San Francisco, Silicon Valley and
Washington, D.C. The firm represents half of the Fortune 100 and in a
Corporate Counsel survey in September 2007 was among the top firms
representing Fortune 250 companies. For additional information, visit
www.kslaw.com.