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It has been a search that has straddled millennia, but Eversheds has finally found a friend in Germany that it can call its own.
While jumping into bed with a firm that is only six months' old may look a little bit desperate, the German firm it has ended up with - Munich's Heisse Kursawe Rechtsanwalte Partnerschaft - is a solid outfit. It has good clients such as Bayerische Hypo- Vereinsbank, Munich Re and Expedia and the firm does all of Burger King's German work.
Heisse Kursawe was formed last November from the wreckage of Arcon, a demise which did not surprise anyone. While all of the firm's offices were respected, they were never fully integrated. When Heisse Kursawe managing partner Matthias Heisse provoked an argument about the need for an international alliance, the fragile inter-office affiliation was shattered.
Heisse Kursawe is the Munich office of what was Arcon. The other offices mutated into two separate firms, Avocado and Sibeth. Heisse immediately set about finding an international ally and his first port of call was his...