- Chairman: Cornelius Brandi
- Executive Director: Matthew Gorman
Firm Overview:
CMS lawyers immerse themselves in their clients’ business. This enables them to deliver the most effective legal and tax solutions. Both leading domestic and major global corporations work with CMS’ 2,800 lawyers across 55 offices in Europe, Russia, China, North Africa and South America. Clients select CMS because it has the most extensive footprint in Europe of any firm. CMS provides local and industry sector insight, global project management and its specialist teams work hard to add value to their projects,wherever they are taking place. Established in 1999, CMS today comprises ten member firms, all experienced in their local jurisdictions. This expertise means that clients receive high-quality advice in the local context.
Main Areas of Practice:
CMS offers a wide range of expertise through sixteen practice area and sector groups, providing advice on local, national and international issues. These expert groups are firmly established across Europe.
• Banking & Finance
• Commercial
• Competition & EU
• Consumer Products
• Corporate
• Dispute Resolution
• Employment & Pensions
• Energy
• Hotels & Leisure
• Infrastructure & Project Finance
• Insurance & Funds
• Intellectual Property
• Life Sciences
• Private Equity
• Real Estate & Construction
• Tax
• Technology, Media & Telecoms
For information on recent work, member firms, publications and full contact details please visit: www.cmslegal.com.
CMS History:
CMS was established on July 1, 1999 with the objective of creating a professional multijurisdictional legal and tax service organisation, headquartered in Europe.
• The founders included the UK, German, Austrian,Dutch and Belgian firms.
• In 2000, Swiss firm Von Erlach Klainguti Stettler Wille joined CMS.
• In 2001, French firm Bureau Francis Lefebvre joined CMS.
• In 2002, Italian firm Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni joined CMS.
• In 2005, Spanish firm Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo joined CMS.
• In 2005, Belgian firm CMS Lexcelis merged with DeBacker creating CMS DeBacker. Later that year, CMS von Erlach Klainguti Stettler Wille merged with Henrici,Wicki & Guggisberg creating CMS von Erlach Henrici.
• In 2008, CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz merged with the corporate law firm Dallmann & Juranek.
• In 2009, CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre, CMS Cameron McKenna and CMS Hasche Sigle merged their operations in Moscow creating CMS, Russia. This merger creates one of the most experienced and largest international law firms in Russia with over 130 lawyers, including 26 partners.
• In 2012, Rui Pena & Arnaut (RPA) became a CMS member. RPA is a full service Portuguese law firm with over 45 years of experience, headquartered in Lisbon.
OFFICES
HEAD OFFICE
FRANKFURT: CMS Legal Services EEIG, Barckhausstrasse 12-16, 60325
Tel: +49 69 71 701 500 Fax: +49 69 71 701 550 Email: info@cmslegal.com
WORLDWIDE OFFICE CONTACTS
VIENNA: CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz, Ebendorferstrasse 3, A-1010
Tel: +43 1 404 43 0 Fax: +43 1 404 43 9000 Website: www.cms-rrh.com
BRUSSELS: CMS DeBacker, 178 Chausée de la Hulpe, B-1170
Tel: +32 2 743 69 00 Fax: +32 2 743 69 01 Website: www.cms-db.com
BEIJING: CMS, China, Central International Trade Centre, 6A Jian Guo Men Wai Avenue, Chao Yang District, 100022
Tel: +86 10 6563 9807 Fax: +86 10 6563 9809 Website: www.cmslegal.cn
PARIS: CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre, 1-3 Villa Emile Bergerat, FR-92522 Neuilly-sur-Seine Cedex
Tel: +33 1 47 38 55 00 Fax: +33 1 47 38 55 55 Website: www.cms-bfl.com
BERLIN: CMS Hasche Sigle, Lennéstrasse 7, DE-10785
Tel: +49 30 203 60 0 Fax: +49 30 203 60 2000 Website: www.cms-hs.com
ROME: CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni, 86 Via Agostino Depretis, IT- 00184
Tel: +39 06 478 151 Fax: +39 06 483 755 Website: www.cms-aacs.com
AMSTERDAM: CMS Derks Star Busmann, Mondriaantoren - Amstelplein 8A, NL-1096 BC PO Box 94700, NL-1090 GS
Tel: +31 20 3016 301 Fax: +31 20 3016 333 Website: www.cms-dsb.com
LISBON: CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut, Rua Sousa Martins, 10, 1050 – 218
Tel: +351 21 095 81 00 Fax: +351 21 095 81 55 Website: www.cms-rpa.com
MOSCOW: CMS, Russia, Gogolevsky Boulevard, 11, 119019
Tel: +7 495 786 4000 Fax: +7 495 786 4001 Website: www.cmslegal.ru
MADRID: CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo, Calle Génova, 27, SP-28004
Tel: +34 91 451 93 00 Fax: +34 91 442 60 45 Website: www.cms-asl.com
ZURICH: CMS von Erlach Henrici Ltd.Dreikönigstrasse 7, CH-8002
Tel: +41 44 285 11 11 Fax: +41 44 285 11 22 Website: www.cms-veh.com
LONDON: CMS Cameron McKenna LLP, Mitre House, 160 Aldersgate Street, EC1A 4DD
Tel: +44 207 367 3000 Fax: +44 207 367 2000 Website: www.cms-cmck.com
CMS OFFICES WORLDWIDE:
Aberdeen, Algiers, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Beijing, Belgrade, Berlin, Bratislava, Bristol, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Cologne, Dresden, Duesseldorf, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Kyiv, Leipzig, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Marbella, Milan, Montevideo, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Prague, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Sarajevo, Seville, Shanghai, Sofia, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Tirana, Utrecht, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb and Zurich.