In 1991 Haarmann Hemmelrath set out the internal plan to grow globally. The firm has a strategy of organic growth as a partnership for integrated professional services to businesses – based on entrepreneurial performance-oriented principles, giving every single member of the firm sufficient space to set up their own practices. Therefore, merging with a US or UK firm has never been an option as it would be impossible to preserve the idiosyncratic culture of our firm in such a tie-up.
Commercial law firms of a certain size offering full service advisory services to their clients have to come up with a global strategy. Concentrating one’s activities on Germany alone is only possible as a niche boutique which, in turn, completely deviates from the general approach of a comprehensive commercial firm. Haarmann Hemmelrath’s ambition is to operate as a European-based global firm. Law firms have different ways of catering for the globalised business world with the favourite way in Germany during the past three years being mergers with an Anglo-Saxon partner. Haarmann Hemmelrath follows a different path.
