Bernhard Gemmel has left Dentons to join Bird & Bird’s Frankfurt office as a partner in the firm’s banking & finance team.
After two years at Dentons and legacy firm Salans, Bernhard Gemmel has left to become a partner at Bird & Bird’s Frankfurt office in its banking & finance team. Gemmel, who is also qualified in France, focuses on real estate, domestic and international project, and trade and acquisition finance. He is especially focused on the energy, infrastructure, and real estate sectors.
Gemmel joins Bird & Bird with associate Stanislav Schmidt, who will help strengthen the firm’s focus on outbound Russian transactions.
Bird & Bird previously hired Dentons senior associate Malgorzata Darowska as an IP partner in Warsaw.
Since the completion of the tripartite merger between SNR Denton, Salans and Fraser Milner Casgrain at the end of March Dentons has lost a number of partners and other lawyers in several offices.
Stephenson Harwood picked up rail partner Tammy Samuel in London and Addleshaw Goddard hired Qatar-based partner Martin Brown. In Paris, Bryan Cave hired a duo of litigators including local litigation head Constantin Achillas. Non-partners who have joined other firms as partner include litigator Alistair Abbott, who moved to offshore firm Forbes Hare in London and Munich-based Stefanie Greifeneder, who joined Field Fisher Waterhouse.
Meanwhile Dentons’ first lateral hires following the merger came in Germany, with partners Michael Graf and Robert Bastian joining from Haarmann.
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