ARQIS

Managing Partner: Dr Andrea Panzer-Heemeier
Number of partners: 17
Number of other fee-earners: approx. 60
Offices in Germany: Duesseldorf, Munich, Berlin Talent Hub
International offices: Tokyo

Firm Overview
ARQIS was established in 2006 as an independent commercial law firm with international operations. Since the early days the team has grown from 17 to around 80 lawyers and legal specialists that provide top-level legal advice in German and Japanese commercial law. The firm combines in-depth legal expertise with a broad understanding of the respective economic context: as lawyers the ARQIS advisers solve their clients’ legal issues; as consultants they help them pursue their key business objectives.

ARQIS was founded as a boutique firm with offices in Düsseldorf, Munich and Tokyo that aligns first-class legal advice with a simple, transparent firm structure plus high time- and cost-efficiency. To this day, the partners believe that working as a boutique in size offers many advantages to both clients and team: There is particularly high partner involvement in each matter; working in smaller teams guarantees exceptionally trustful, personal working relationships and high consistency; there is an extraordinary team spirit and creative potential at the individual level.

The firm pursues a clear business strategy, and has structured its offer to clients in five focus groups: Transactions, HR law, Japan, Data law and Risk. This structure enables ARQIS to offer a comprehensive portfolio of most relevant advisory services to its clients but to stay focused at the same time. This strategic step was much acknowledged by clients and praised by peers: In 2021, the Transactions group was nominated for the JUVE Awards 2021 in the category “Law Firm of the Year for Private Equity & Venture Capital”; the same year the HR.Law won the JUVE Award as “Employment Law Firm of the Year”.

Main Areas of Practice

• Employment
• Corporate / M&A
• Compliance
• Data Protection
• Real Estate
• IP/IT
• Insolvency
• Insurance
• Litigation
• Public & Regulatory Law
• Private Equity & Venture Capital
• Tax

Offices
DUSSELDORF
T +49 211 13069-000
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MUNICH
T +49 89 309055-600
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TALENT HUB BERLIN
T +49 211 13069-000
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TOKYO
T +81 3 6438-2770
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