CMS is an organisation of ten independent law and tax firms:
Firms and addresses
CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni
Offices: Rome, Milan
Key Facts: 17 partners and 60 legal and tax advisers (including partners)
A leading Italian law firm and established in 1901 which provides CMS with southern Europe capability and further boosts CMS standing as a major transactional legal and tax services organisation. CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni provides all-round services to domestic and international clients. Specialising in corporate and commercial law and tax law, the firm’s professional activity is equally divided between litigation and non-contentious work. This combination of expertise places CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni in a unique position with respect to its principal competitors in Italian legal and tax markets.
Office addresses:
Rome
Via Agostino Depretis, 86
00184 Rome
Italy
T +39 06 47 81 51
F +39 06 48 37 55
E info@cms-aacs.com
W www.cms-aacs.com
Offices: Madrid, Marbella and Seville
Key Facts: 1 senior partner, 19 partners and c 80 legal and tax advisers and economists (including partners)
A leading Spanish law firm, established in 1927, CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo, S.L.P. is the most recent addition to CMS. CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo, S.L.P. provides CMS with services in the Iberian Peninsula and further boosts CMS' standing as a major transactional legal and tax services organisation. CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo, S.L.P. provides businesses with a full range of legal and tax services.
Head office address:
Madrid
Calle Génova, 27
28004 Madrid
Spain
T +34 91 451 93 00
F +34 91 442 60 45
E madrid@cms-asl.com, marbella@cms-asl.com or sevilla@cms-asl.com
W www.cms-asl.com
CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre
Offices: Paris, Algiers, Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Lyon, Montevideo, Moscow, New York, São Paulo, Shanghai, Strasbourg
Key Facts: 88 partners, c 450 legal and tax advisers (including partners)
With over 80 years experience, CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre ranks among the foremost business law firms in France. In order to help its clients deal effectively with increasingly complex legislation and achieve their business objectives, CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre brings a multi-disciplinary approach to the provision of its legal and tax services through the effective collaboration of its tax, business law and employment law practice groups. Partners who are recognised experts in their fields are supported by dedicated and technical teams. The effectiveness of CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre’s service is reinforced by a vigorous commitment to quality.
Head office address:
Paris
1-3 Villa Emile Bergerat
92522 Neuilly-sur-Seine Cedex
France
T +33 1 47 38-5500
F +33 1 47 38-5555
E info@cms-bfl.com
W www.cms-bfl.com
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP
Offices: London, Aberdeen, Beijing, Bristol, Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Edinburgh, Kyiv, Moscow, Prague, Shanghai, Sofia, Warsaw
Key Facts: over 130 partners, c 700 legal and tax advisers (including partners)
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP is a full service UK and international law firm advising businesses, financial institutions, public sector bodies and governments. The firm’s practice groups comprise banking and international finance, commercial, corporate, energy projects and construction, insurance and reinsurance and real estate. CMS Cameron McKenna LLP is one of the largest firms in Central and Eastern Europe.
Head office address:
London
Mitre House
160 Aldersgate Street
London EC1A 4DD
England
T +44 20 73 67-3000
F +44 44 73 67-2000
E info@cms-cmck.com
W www.cms-cmck.com
CMS DeBacker
Offices: Antwerp and Brussels
Key Facts: 22 partners, c 56 legal advisers
CMS DeBacker, founded on 1 January 2005, brings together two well-regarded firms, CMS Lexcelis and DeBacker. Founded in 1987, DeBacker’s 31-strong team have an established reputation for delivering personalised services that are directly plugged in to clients’ commercial needs. They are particularly strong in M&A’s, corporate litigation, European and competition matters, banking & insurance and public & administrative law. CMS Lexcelis, founded in 1983, joined CMS in 1999 as a founder member of CMS and has always been known for its strong corporate, banking, real estate and employment practice. Its 70 lawyers have also subsequently developed a growing reputation in tax and intellectual property services.
Although both full service firms in their own right, each is bringing its particular capabilities to the partnership which will put the new firm on the strongest of footing in delivering added value services to clients.
CMS DeBacker has a wide client base comprising domestic and foreign, large and medium-sized companies.
Head office address:
Brussels
Chaussée de La Hulpe 178
1170 Brussels
Belgium
T +32 2 743 69-00
F +32 2 743 69-01
W www.cms-db.com
CMS Derks Star Busmann
Offices: Amsterdam, Utrecht, Arnhem, Brussels
Key Facts: 49 partners, c 220 legal and tax advisers
CMS Derks Star Busmann is one of the top ten firms of lawyers, civil law notaries and tax consultants in the Netherlands. It is the result of a number of mergers that brought together leading firms in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Arnhem and Brussels. CMS Derks Star Busmann, which joined and co-founded CMS in 1999, offers a broad range of legal services and represents a diverse portfolio of clients in various sectors including national and multi-national enterprises and both public and private organisations.
CMS Derks Star Busmann’s range of services include corporate law and corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, insolvency law, real estate and government, employment law, tax law, commercial law, competition law, intellectual property and ICT-law, family property law, litigation, criminal law and international law.
Head office address:
Amsterdam
Mondriaantoren - Amstelplein 8A
1096 BC Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T +31 20 30 16-301
F +31 20 30 16-333
E info@cms-dsb.com
W www.cms-dsb.com
CMS von Erlach Henrici Ltd
Office: Zurich
Key Facts: 22 partners, 33 legal and tax advisers
CMS von Erlach Henrici Ltd. is one of Switzerland’s leading commercial law firms with a strong international practice. They offer comprehensive, solutions driven legal advice to companies and entrepreneurs both on the national level and in an international environment. The firm has a particularly strong reputation in the areas of corporate transactions, banking & finance, dispute resolution, taxes, technology & telecom, real estate, construction & environment, competition law, labour & immigration law, intellectual property, insurance & product liability.
CMS von Erlach Henrici Ltd. consists of 55 fee earners,22 of them being partners. Certain members are officially admitted as qualified representatives of issuers at the SWX Swiss Exchange. Most of their attorneys completed post-graduate studies in addition to their Swiss studies and gained practical experience abroad. Hence, they work with equal ease in German and English. Most of the lawyers also speak French, and several speak Italian, which enables us to provide services throughout Switzerland.
Head office address:
Zurich
Dreikönigstrasse 7
8022 Zurich
Switzerland
T +41 44 285 11-11
F +41 44 285 11-22
E office@cms-veh.com
W www.cms-veh.com
CMS Hasche Sigle
Offices: Berlin, Belgrade, Brussels, Cologne, Dresden, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, Moscow, Shanghai, Stuttgart
Key Facts: 200 partners and about 500 legal and tax advisers (including partners)
CMS Hasche Sigle is one of the leading German law firms. With over 500 lawyers the firm offers the full range of business law services including corporate law (especially transactions, mergers & acquisitions, private equity and venture capital), banking and capital markets law, IT and telecommunications, real estate, construction and environmental law, intellectual property, press and media law, competition law, merger control, subsidies and procurement law, tax law, employment law, insolvency law, utilities, product liability, maritime and transport law, insurance law, distribution and franchise law.
Clients include many reputable German and international enterprises from a wide spectrum, e.g. industry, trade, service sector and public and semi-public institutions.
The firm has a nationwide presence with offices in Germany’s economic centres of Berlin, Cologne, Dresden, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart. The firm also has an office in Brussels that advises clients on European Law and provides representation before the various institutions of the European Union. In Berlin, Frankfurt and Stuttgart several partners of the firm are also admitted as notaries.
Head office address:
Berlin
Lennéstrasse 7
10785 Berlin
Germany
T +49 30 203 60-0
F +49 30 203 60-2000
E berlin@cms-hs.com
W www.cms-hs.com
CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz
Offices: Vienna, Belgrade, Bratislava, Brussels, Kyiv, Ljubljana, Sofia, Sarajevo, Zagreb
Key Facts: 12 partners, c 105 legal advisers (including partners)
CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz is one of the leading law firms in Austria and the CEE/SEE region. It was founded in 1970 and joined CMS in 1999. The firm advises a wide range of large and medium-sized companies and has special expertise in the sectors banking, property and construction, media and health care. CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz’s areas of expertise include corporate M&A, banking and finance, real estate and construction, employment, procurement and EU competition, litigation and arbitration, IP and media, and tax law.
Its Vienna headquarter is a regional ‘hub’ for cross-border work in the neighbouring countries. Consequently, the firm has advised on several of the most prominent transactions and cases in Austria and the CEE/SEE region.
The firm’s Vienna based lawyers have also shaped the Austrian legal environment through their academic work as well as their activities as advisers to the legislature and government institutions. Partners of our firm have published numerous books which are today used as standard texts in the areas corporate, procurement, IP and takeover law.
Head office address:
Vienna
Ebendorferstrasse 3
1010 Vienna
Austria
T +43 1 404 43-0
F +43 1 404 43-9000
E info@cms-rrh.com
W www.cms-rrh.com
CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut
Offices: Lisbon
Key Facts: c 64 legal advisers (including partners)
CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut is is a full service Portuguese law firm with over 45 years of experience, headquartered in Lisbon. It was founded in 1964 and joined CMS in 2012.
Head office address:
Lisbon
Ebendorferstrasse 3
1010 Lisbon
Portugal
T +351 1 210 958 100
F +351 1 210 958 155
E rpa@cms-rpa.com
W www.cms-rpa.com
CMS Legal Services EEIG
Office: Frankfurt am Main
CMS Legal Services EEIG, is a German European Economic Interest Grouping that coordinates an organisation of independent member firms. CMS Legal Services EEIG provides no client services. Such services are provided solely by the member firms in their respective jurisdictions.
Head office address:
Frankfurt am Main
Barckhausstrasse 12-16
60325 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
T +69 717 01-500
F +69 717 01-550
W www.cmslegal.com