backFRANKFURT, Germany, August 15, 2014 — King & Spalding has been nominated as Law Firm of the Year for Real Estate and Construction in the 2014 JUVE Awards. The winner will be announced at ceremonies to be held at the Alte Oper Frankurt on October 23, 2014.
The winners of JUVE awards are selected by the publication’s editorial team based on more than 20,000 interviews conducted annually with law firm partners and their clients. The research covers technical expertise as well as a firm’s strategic operation, client-service orientation and future potential.
Mario Leissner, managing partner of King & Spalding’s Frankfurt office and head of the firm’s German real estate capital markets team, said: “We are honored by JUVE’s recognition of our German real estate capital markets practice, and we are grateful to our many clients for entrusting us with their important deals and for sharing their satisfaction with the JUVE editorial staff. We are especially proud that we have attained this industry-wide achievement in a relatively short period of time, which was accomplished through the uncompromising real estate industry focus, skill and expertise of our capital markets real estate team in Frankfurt and worldwide.”
King & Spalding received the prestigious “Immobilienmanager” award early this year for advising and preparing clients on Kapitalanlagegesetzbuch (KAGB), a new regulatory regime having a transformative effect on the German fund industry. King & Spalding beat out more than 100 other law firms to win this top prize “for its role advising and preparing the fund industry—to date more than 50 clients—on the new European and German regulatory regime that has a transformative effect on this industry, while also leading the industry through the legislative process.”
King & Spalding’s Frankfurt real estate team prides itself on partnering with clients to develop and execute successful market strategies. The firm’s combination of a global real estate platform with high-end German and European expertise—including regulatory, corporate, finance and tax experience—offers clients essential insight into markets, regulatory requirements and solutions, competition and transactions. For over 30 years King & Spalding’s lawyers have advised German-based clients in German and global real estate markets. The King & Spalding team includes German lawyers who have practiced in Germany for decades, as well as more than 75 lawyers in Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Charlotte, Dubai, Frankfurt, Houston, London, Moscow, New York, Paris, and Washington, D.C., who advise German clients.
About King & Spalding
Celebrating more than 125 years of service, King & Spalding is an international law firm that represents a broad array of clients, including half of the Fortune Global 100, with 800 lawyers in 17 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm has handled matters in over 160 countries on six continents and is consistently recognized for the results it obtains, uncompromising commitment to quality and dedication to understanding the business and culture of its clients. More information is available at www.kslaw.com.