Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP

The firm

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, founded in 1830, was one of the first US law firms to develop a truly international practice. Dedicated to counselling clients involved with some of the most challenging transnational transactions and complex multijurisdictional disputes, Curtis represents multinational companies, international financial institutions, governments and state-owned entities, family and other privately held businesses, entrepreneurs and high-net-worth individuals. With offices in the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Central and East Asia, Curtis is located in the key business centres where clients need the firm most.

Areas of practice

Curtis’ Frankfurt office was established in 1990. The highly experienced team handles a balance of German and international work, on which it works closely with the firm’s 16 other offices.

The corporate M&A team represents buyers and sellers, strategic and financial investors and the management of small, mid-size and large companies. The firm’s Frankfurt lawyers regularly advise on both German domestic and multijurisdictional mergers and acquisitions for private and public companies. In addition, Curtis’ Frankfurt attorneys advise on business set-ups, joint ventures, bankruptcy matters and restructurings, and general corporate law.

The team is known for its success in mid-market mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital and corporate restructurings in Germany and Europe-wide.

The office’s international asset management and investment fund lawyers advise sponsors, managers and investors on EU and German investment laws and regulations, including the structuring, formation, documentation, operation, listing and registration of funds. The firm’s experience includes public (including UCITS) and private alternative funds. The team has an impressive track record of advising German and non-German institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds and high-net-worth individuals on their global investment activities across all asset classes. Over the past year, the asset management team, inter alia, provided corporate, commercial, investment/regulatory, insurance supervisory and investment tax law advice to several German pension fund and pension plan clients investors on a variety of multi-million EUR and USD investments around the globe including European and US commercial and residential real estate, European private equity and secured loans.

The office’s integrated tax advice is unusual for an office of its size and enables the team, which includes German-qualified lawyers (Rechtsanwälte) and certified tax advisors (Steuerberater), to handle large and complex transactions with German and international tax aspects. Curtis offers tax services across the full range of commercial and financial transactions, including strategic advice for structuring, implementing and co-ordinating cross-border transactions. Curtis’ advice encompasses German domestic and international tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, private equity, investment management, corporate restructurings and real estate.

Curtis’ Frankfurt real estate team deals with all aspects of complex commercial real estate transactions, both in German and cross-border contexts. Frankfurt real estate lawyers advise on development projects, legal asset management, and on public law, especially building and zoning law.

Additionally, the Frankfurt office provides advice on general civil and commercial law, and provides advice and representation with regard to civil and commercial arbitration and litigation.

The office is part of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, an English-registered limited liability partnership.