Leading German independent Graf von Westphalen has split into two following what the firm described as “differing ideas about the strategic orientation.”
More than a third of the practice based at the firm’s Cologne and Freiburg offices are to spin off and re-launch as a new team at the start of 2011. The departing team – a total of 50 lawyers including 25 partners out of a total of 132 – includes name partner Friedrich Graf von...