Noerr has been selected by the jury of the well-known legal association International Legal Alliance Summit & Awards (ILASA) for the second successive time as "Germany's best law firm". The "Gold Award" 2010 was presented yesterday at a gala in Paris.

The deciding factors were transaction advice in the past two years, the profile of the M&A partners and M&A Teams on the market and the financial and personnel development of the entire law firm. "Due to our expertise in the areas of crisis, restructuring, insolvency and distressed M&A, we had a relatively strong 2009", said Dr. Dieter Schenk, one of Noerr's two spokespersons. "We see the award as evidence that companies value a law firm which is with them through highs and lows and can support them capably in every phase".

The jury included chief in-house lawyers of world leading groups such as the air transport, space and defence equipment group EADS, the US software manufacturer Oracle, the French wine and spirits group Pernod Ricard, the Italian telecommunications company Tiscali, the French telecommunications and network equipment provider Alcatal Lucent, the Indian specialist for business process management Genpact, the largest Canadian software company Open Text and the Japanese software company Trend Micro. They assess law firms in all important industrial and developing nations.

The ILASA award is already the second such award this year. A week ago, the British legal publisher Chambers and Partners named Noerr as "Client Service Law Firm of the Year" in Germany. Client statements such as "The response times, industry knowledge, appropriateness of advice and value for money are outstanding. It has to be emphasized that this firm does not only deliver great quality, but is always pragmatic and goal oriented in the process", were the deciding factor for the jury.