The Düsseldorf-based law firm ORTHPARTNERS, which was only founded on April 1, 2025, is celebrating a remarkable debut: several of its lawyers have been recognized in the current ranking "Germany's Best Lawyers 2025" by Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers. This makes ORTHPARTNERS one of the recognized addresses for business law advice in Germany shortly after the firm was founded.

The renowned ranking is based on an elaborate peer-to-peer process in which only recommendations from colleagues in the legal profession are taken into account. Personal suggestions are excluded. The selection is based on specialist areas and reflects the high professional qualifications, reputation and market position of the lawyers listed.

The following lawyers in various fields of law were recommended for ORTHPARTNERS in 2025:

Dr. Anke Empting (Public Commercial Law)
Dr. Gudrun Germakowski (labor law, company pension schemes)
Dr. Robert Manger (Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law)
Dr. Robert Orth (corporate law)

Lawyer Sebastian Niehues also joined ORTHPARTNERS on June 1; he works in the field of public commercial law and regulation. Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers list him personally in the "Ones to watch" category.

All of the award winners are based in Düsseldorf. The multiple nominations are proof of the broad and recognized expertise of the full-service law firm.

"We are delighted to receive these awards, which underline our team's high level of expertise and broad range of advice. We are particularly pleased that just a few months after the firm was founded, we are already one of the leading firms in Germany in several core areas of commercial law," says Dr. Robert Orth, one of the founding partners of ORTHPARTNERS.