FRANKFURT – A large number of Reed Smith’s practice areas in the global firm’s Frankfurt and Munich offices are recognised in the Best Law Firms™- Germany guide, published today for the first time.

The Best Law Firms™ guides bring together extensive peer reviews and industry sector evaluation, to create tiered rankings on both a national and metropolitan area basis.

Frankfurt am Main is in the German state of Hessen and the city of Munich is in Bayern.

The Reed Smith practice areas recognised in the guide include:

National Tier 2

  • Banking and Finance
  • Corporate
  • Data Security and Privacy
  • Media
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Private Equity

National Tier 3

  • Information Technology

Metropolitan Tier 1

Bayern

  • Competition / Antitrust
  • Corporate
  • Data Security and Privacy
  • Information Technology
  • Media
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Technology

Hessen

  • Banking and Finance

Metropolitan Tier 2

Bayern

  • Arbitration and Mediation
  • Intellectual Property
  • Labor and Employment
  • Real Estate
  • Restructuring and Insolvency

Hessen

  • Corporate
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Tax

Metropolitan Tier 3

Bayern

  • Advertising
  • Banking and Finance
  • Investment Funds

Hessen

  • Data Security and Privacy

The strength of Reed Smith’s offering in Germany was also demonstrated earlier this year, when the Best Lawyers in Germany™ 2025 guide recognised 24 individual lawyers from the firm.

Those lawyers were recognised for advertising, arbitration and mediation, banking and finance, competition/antitrust, corporate, data security and privacy, employment, intellectual property, investment funds, IT and technology, media, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, real estate, restructuring and insolvency, tax, and other categories.

More details on the Best Law Firms™- Germany guide and methodology can be found on the publisher’s website. This is the inaugural edition of the Best Law Firms™- Germany guide.