New European Members Alexen Avocats (Paris) and Arnecke Siebold (Frankfurt) Introduced at AGM in Mexico

Two law firms from the Europe/Middle East/Africa region have joined Interlaw, bringing the network to sixty-four members, twenty-eight of which hail from E/ME/A region. Alexen Avocats (Paris and Lyon) and Arnecke Siebold (Frankfurt) were both unanimously selected by delegates at the Annual Global Meeting in Mexico City.  Paris delegate Remí Turcon and Frankfurt delegate Michael Siebold immediately impressed fellow members with their enthusiasm and both have indicated an interest in taking active roles in the Association.  Noble & Scheidecker (Luxembourg), originally introduced at the Regional Meeting in Edinburgh, is the other 2005 addition from Europe, and the network also welcomed Beijing firm Zhong Lun this year.  Both of the latter firms were profiled in the last issue of The Interlawyer.

 

Paris and Lyon 

Alexen Avocats of Paris and Lyon, a full service law firm with a strong international commercial practice was founded in 1998 by the regrouping of three distinguished firms with origins dating to the middle of the last century.  Interlaw Chair Jim Harrowell of Hunt & Hunt (Sydney) and Boekel de Nerée’s (Amsterdam) Philip Paterson, who is also the immediate past vice chair of Interlaw’s  European Region, visited the Parisian firm at the suggestion of Board Member Tom Raleigh of Akerman Senterfitt (Florida), who is familiar with Alexen’s reputation for service.  Rémi Turcon is the firm’s primary Interlaw contact and presented Alexen at the Annual Global Meeting in Mexico City.

In addition to practicing general French and European Community law, the firm operates a busy international practice, focused particularly on companies in France and the EU, North America, and Japan.  The firm enjoys a robust corporate transactions practice and also works with ailing companies in reorganization and the dissolution of assets.  Lawyers at Alexen practice in the areas of Antitrust, Banking, Capital Markets, Civil, Commercial Leases, Communication and Media, Competition, Copyright, Corporate, Customs, Engineering and Construction Contracts, Environment, Franchising, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce, Industrial and Intellectual Property, Insolvency, Insurance, International Estates, Labor and Social Security, Litigation and Arbitration, Mergers and Acquisitions, Products Liability, Project Finance, Public Law, Real Estate, Reorganization, Securities, Tax, Trademark, Trusts and Estates and White Collar Crime.

Contacts are:  

Remí Turcon    Remi.turcon@alexen.com;

T: 33 1 56 69 50 25  F:  33 1 56 69 50 22

Eun-Sol Koh    Eunsol.koh@alexen.com;   

T: 33 1 56 69 50 23  F:  33 1 56 69 50 22

Patrick Gentil   Patrick.gentil@alexen.com;

T: 33 1 56 69 50 36  F:  33 1 56 69 50 14

Alexen | www.alexen.com | 47 rue de Monceau |

75008 Paris, France

T : + 33 1 56 69 50 00 | F : + 33 1 56 69 50 22

Frankfurt Firm Operates Busy International Sports Practice

Interlaw is proud to announce the membership of Frankfurt firm Arnecke Siebold, which engages a full commercial practice in the representation of companies in a variety of industries.  Andreas Richter of Bangkok’s Blumenthal, Richter & Sumet Ltd., himself a German national, met with Arnecke Siebold while visiting Germany on behalf of several of his Thai-EU cross-border clients.  He recommended Arnecke Siebold to the Interlaw Board of Directors and European Representative Raimund Cancola of e/n/w/c (Vienna) visited the firm, enthusiastically endorsing its inclusion in the network.  Managing Partner Michael Siebold, a company lawyer with expertise in real estate law and M&A, also runs a busy international sports law practice.  He was educated, among other places, in U.K. and Toronto and chairs the German-Canadian Society.  To learn more about Interlaw, he visited with Steven Weinberg of Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman LLP in New York, and then traveled to Toronto and met with Bill VanderBurgh, Lloyd Cornett and Boris Muchalov of Aird & Berlis.  Mr. Siebold introduced his firm at Interlaw’s Annual Global Meeting in Mexico City, hosted by Capín, Calderón, Ramirez y Gutiérrez-Azpe, S.C. and will serve as the primary Interlaw contact.   Name Partner Georg Arnecke, also a company and corporate lawyer, has extensive experience as a member of various corporate boards and practices in the areas of M&A and real estate law in addition to mediation and arbitration.

 The forty-lawyer firm has a broad client base with a focus on counseling German subsidiaries of foreign multinational entities or high net-worth German nationals.  Practice areas include Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Associations and Societies, Banks and Banking, Biotechnology, Business Law, Cartels, Media, Competition Law, Corporate Law, Criminal Taxation, Data Protection, E-Business, Energy Law, Entertainment and the Arts, Environmental Law, European Union Law, Franchising, Gaming Law, Insolvency, Insurance Law, IP/IT, International Law, International Sports Law, Insolvency Law, Investments, IT-Law, Labor, Media Law, Merger Control Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Mortgages, Multimedia Law, Non-Profit and Charitable Organizations, Product Liability, Property Law, Real Estate,  Taxation, Torts, Trusts and Estates, and Zoning.

 

Contacts are:  

Michael Siebold         Michael.Siebold@ArneckeSiebold.de; T:+49 69 97 98 85 0      F:+49 69 97 98 85 85

Holger Bürskens       Holger.Buerskens@ArneckeSiebold.de

T+ 49 69 979885-356    F+ 49 69 97 98 85 88

Dr. Volker Fuchs        Volker.Fuchs@ArneckeSiebold.de

T+ 49 69 979885-453    F+ 49 69 97 98 85 85

 

Arnecke Siebold | www.ArneckeSiebold.de  | Hamburger Alee 2-10 |

60486 Frankfurt Germany

T:+49 69 97 98 85 0 /F:+49 69 97 98 85 85