Nörr Stiefenhofer Lutz has been designated as Germany's best law firm 2009 by the renowned International Legal Alliance Summit & Awards. The international law firm received the „Gold Award“ yesterday together with Hengeler Mueller at a gala in Paris.

More than 100 financial experts and legal department heads of international groups make the award annually for  „excellent results of the year and lasting performance in management and leadership“. The jury is made up of representatives of companies such as SAP, Metro, Philip Morris, Oracle, Altran, Axa, Shell, Total, Nestlé, L’Oréal, Disney, GDF Suez and Bearing Point. They evaluate more than 150 law firms from all importnat industrial and developing countries on the basis of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) services.

The adjudication was based on transactions of the past two years, the M&A partners' and M&A teams' profiles on the market and the financial and personnel developments within the law firm as a whole.  „The decision of the jury shows that added value achieved by means of legal creativity and variety count as well as first-class quality“, said Dr. Thomas Schulz, co-head of M&A at Nörr.

This is Nörr's second award this year as Germany's best law firm. The British magazine Acquisition Finance ACQ named Nörr as “Large 'Full Service' Law Firm of the Year – Germany”. ACQ also honoured the seven Central and Eastern European offices with the award „Commercial Law Firm of the Year – Eastern Europe“.