Willkie has been named Law Firm of the Year for Insolvency and Restructuring at the JUVE Awards 2025, celebrating Willkie’s achievements as a top law firm for restructuring work in Germany and beyond. The awards ceremony took place October 30 at the Alte Oper Frankfurt.
JUVE lauded Willkie for establishing a top restructuring practice in a short amount of time, highlighting the addition of German Restructuring Co-Chairs Jörn Kowalewski and Ulrich Klockenbrink and their team in 2024, who joined forces with Willkie’s Munich-based team that included partner Wolfram Prusko. JUVE also noted Willkie’s work on high-profile restructuring matters, including advising the steering committee of BayWa AG’s lenders on the restructuring of BayWa Group, as part of a complex restructuring process. Other recent matters handled by the team include advising Oxford Finance as German legal counsel on the successful refinancing of Centogene group in connection with a significant investment by Charme Capital Partners, and advising DEMIRE Deutsche Mittelstand Real Estate AG, an investor in commercial real estate, on a comprehensive restructuring of its listed 2019/2024 German law bond of originally EUR 600m.
Willkie opened its office in Hamburg earlier in 2025, the firm’s third office in Germany, enhancing a platform that includes leading restructuring, litigation and transactional practices.
The JUVE Awards honor the leading law firms and legal departments in Germany and Austria.
Willkie Named Law Firm of the Year for Insolvency and Restructuring at JUVE Awards 2025
