2 November 2026 - With effect from 1 January 2027, McDermott Will & Schulte is admitting former counsel Alexandra Prato (Private Equity, Munich) and Dr. Maximilian Meyer (Tax, Frankfurt) to the partnership. Annabelle Rau (Corporate/M&A, Cologne) and Dr. Philip Uecker (Data Protection/Legal Innovation, Düsseldorf) are promoted to counsel.

Worldwide, McDermott is promoting 36 lawyers to partner and four to counsel, half of them women.

According to Dr. Matthias Kampshoff, Managing Partner of McDermott in Germany, the four promotions show how McDermott develops from within its own ranks: as an innovative practice with a broad range of expertise that supports companies and investors in transactions and all related legal challenges with its specialists. He congratulated the colleagues and said the firm looks forward to shaping the next chapter at McDermott together. (Quote rendered in summary form.)

The names of all new partners and counsel at McDermott Will & Schulte in 20 locations worldwide can be found in the firm's global press release.

This text was automatically translated from the German original.