Three founding partners of Pinsent Curtis Biddle’s German ally, Hoffmann Liebs Fritsch Ruhe, have quit over strategy differences.

The three – Peter Ruhe, Silvia Radke-Bonk and Wolfgang Hirt – are all established property partners in the firm’s Berlin arm. They are expected to form their own firm, effectively reforming what had been Ruhe & Hirt until 1999, when it was taken over by Hoffmann Liebs.