Kirkland & Ellis open a German office and hire new partner

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP has announced its plan to open a German office. The new office is the firm's seventh worldwide and second in Europe. Located in Munich, Kirkland intends to move into its permanent office space by early 2005. The new office will focus on private equity/M&A work. Volker Kullmann, a partner at Clifford Chance, had joined Kirkland as part of this move. A qualified German corporate lawyer, Kullmann has been a leading member of Clifford Chance's private equity practice in Germany. He has been with Clifford Chance since 1998. Prior to that, the 43-year-old Kullmann was an associate at Beiten Burkhardt Mittl & Wegener. Kirkland's current German practice is led by Dr Thomas Verhoeven, a partner doing German legal work through the firm's London office. Verhoeven will be relocating to Munich. Kirkland's new Munich office will be led by Kullmann and Verhoeven. In addition to Verhoeven, who has been with Kirkland since 2000, another German lawyer from the firm's London office, partner Ivo Posluschny, will relocate to the Munich office. Kirkland anticipates that approximately 10 additional attorneys will be moving to Munich from Kirkland's other offices or arriving laterally from other German and international firms.

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