DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary’s recently launched German arm has won its first major deal after being instructed to advise the KONFAM consortium in its bid for Germany’s first public private part-nership (PPP) motorway construction project.

DLA’s Cologne arm won the instruction in a beauty parade after pitching against a number of major City firms, including Allen & Overy, Ashurst, Clifford Chance and Lovells, securing a flagship project valued at €5bn (£3.4bn).