Noerr names four new equity partners

Noerr is to start the new year with four new equity partners. As of 1 January 2025, the firm will be admitting Moritz Nikolaus Koch, Karl-Alexander Neumann, Susanne Rummel and Benedikt Vogt to the partnership.

Viktor Gerbutov will be working for Noerr as senior counsel in the future. The firm has also appointed another 13 lawyers as associated partners and another two lawyers as counsel.

“We are delighted to be able to shore up our partnership with legal advisors from our own ranks whose outstanding work is already making a tangible contribution to our success,” said co-managing partner Torsten Fett. “These appointments serve to strengthen the firm on a long-term basis and help us stay firmly on the track to achieve qualitative growth and consolidate our leading position among the top European law firms,” highlighted co-managing partner Alexander Ritvay.

The new equity partners

Moritz Nikolaus Koch (44, lawyer in Hamburg) advises German and foreign financial and strategic investors as well as growth companies on private equity, M&A and venture capital transactions. He also advises on complex cross-border transactions and joint ventures on a regular basis.

Karl-Alexander Neumann (42 years, lawyer in Hamburg) advises on international banking and finance law, including regulatory issues and compliance matters. Karl-Alexander’s practice involves assisting in M&A transactions in the financial sector. He advises on the structuring of innovative digital business models, including complex payment structures, electronic money, credit cards and crypto strategies on a regular basis.

Susanne Rummel (40, lawyer in Munich) focuses on complex domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, joint ventures, carve-outs and corporate reorganisations. Another of her key practice areas is advising on complex corporate and capital markets matters in major transactional projects and topics involving structuring and integration. Susanne often advises on topics linked to digital transformation and innovation.

Benedikt Vogt (40, lawyer in Dusseldorf) advises companies and their governing bodies as well as private equity investors in connection with complex national and cross-border M&A transactions, including structuring public takeovers, joint ventures, co-investments, restructurings and carve-outs. He also assists his clients in matters involving corporate, company group and capital markets law and on dealing with shareholder activism.

The new senior counsel

Viktor Gerbutov (38, lawyer in Hamburg, admitted to practice under Russian law) has over 15 years’ experience in acting for clients in significant Russian-related litigation and arbitration proceedings both in Russia and other jurisdictions. Besides this, he regularly acts as an expert witness on Russian law before foreign courts and arbitral tribunals and sits as an arbitrator.

The new associated partners

Steffen Arlich (Tax & Private Clients, Munich), Martina Buller (Banking & Finance, Frankfurt), Niclas Gajeck (Intellectual Property, Munich), Timm Gaßner (Corporate, Munich), Patrick Geist (Banking & Finance, Frankfurt), Valentina C. Glasa (Real Estate Investment Group, Hamburg), Jan Hoffmann Linhard (Capital Markets, Hamburg), Frédéric Kuhn (Compliance & Investigations, Dusseldorf), Antonia Landmann (Arbitration, Dusseldorf), Daniel Prexler (Private Equity, Munich), Katja Steinthaler (Intellectual Property, Munich), Ira Tsoures (M&A, Berlin), Henrike von dem Berge (Data, Tech & Telecoms, Berlin)

The new counsel

Ines Coenen (Energy, Munich), Zuzana Peniaskova (Intellectual Property, Alicante)