Bird & Bird is poised to achieve its long awaited ambition of opening an office in Germany – with the hire of a team of lawyers from Andersen Legal’s former German firm, Andersen Luther.

A partner at Andersen Luther confirmed today (19 June 2002) that Wolfgang von Meibom, the former chairman of top independent German firm Wessing, was leaving the firm with a group of partners and “a substantial number of associates”.