The Firm

Schmitz & Part­ner was foun­ded in Frankfurt/Main in the sum­mer of 2009 as a spin-off of the litigation/dispute reso­lu­tion prac­tice of a lea­ding inter­na­tio­nal law firm. The two foun­ding part­ners, Dr. Bernd-Wilhelm Schmitz and Ste­phan Klee­mann, have worked toge­ther since 1997 and jointly rep­re­sent more than 30 years of expe­ri­ence in con­duc­ting natio­nal and inter­na­tio­nal law­suits and arbi­tra­tion pro­cee­dings, with an empha­sis on eco­no­mic law. Cur­rently the firm has four part­ners.

Schmitz & Part­ner advi­ses and rep­res­ents com­pa­nies and entre­pre­neurs in all sta­ges of dis­pute reso­lu­tion in and out of court. Based on the many years in prac­tice of our foun­ding part­ners in inter­na­tio­nal law firms Schmitz & Part­ner brings along sub­stan­tial expe­ri­ence, which is essen­tial when pur­suing com­plex, cross-border dis­pu­tes and achie­ving an eco­no­mi­cal and ideal solu­tion.

Schmitz & Part­ner pos­ses­ses a vast and well-proven net­work, natio­nally and inter­na­tio­nally. We have excel­lent con­ta­cts to domestic and for­eign law firms, audi­tors, tax accoun­tants, finan­cial experts, manage­ment con­sul­tants and com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons experts. We con­sult these experts as cir­cum­stan­ces war­rant, but only in accor­dance with prior cli­ent consent.

We rep­re­sent not only inter­na­tio­nal finan­cial insti­tu­ti­ons and inves­tors, but also lis­ted and medium-sized com­pa­nies. We con­duct out­stan­ding civil and arbi­tra­tion pro­cee­dings. Inter alia, we are rep­re­sen­ting a DAX-listed com­pany in the lar­gest pro­s­pec­tus lia­bi­lity law­suit in the history of Ger­man law.

Our inde­pen­dence enab­les us to advise and rep­re­sent cli­ents in dis­pu­tes in which major natio­nal and inter­na­tio­nal law firms often can­not appear due to exis­ting con­flicts, e.g. with regard to for­mer tran­sac­tion rela­ted work. Schmitz & Part­ner is the­re­fore a sought after con­tact part­ner for con­flic­ted law firms. More­over we main­tain a strong rela­ti­onship with inter­na­tio­nal law firms which do not offer dis­pute reso­lu­tion capa­bi­li­ties in Ger­many.