Legal Recruitment and Coordination of Your Successful Litigation Abroad

Enforcing rights before a foreign court, whether as claimant or defendant, always first involves overcoming the hurdle of finding the right local lawyer to conduct the proceedings. This hurdle should not be underestimated. Successful litigation requires, on the one hand, a procedural representative who is genuinely well versed in the areas of law relevant to the case and, on the other hand, who communicates with the client throughout the proceedings in the manner expected and required by the client.

In foreign litigation, you are also entering a field in which you are not familiar with the local legal and procedural system, the applicable principles governing lawyers’ fees, or the local mentality and language. This makes communication even more difficult, although proper communication is essential for identifying the important factual details required for successful litigation.

In short, when litigating abroad, you need a lawyer who is the right fit for your case in terms of expertise and the right fit for you personally — and you only have one shot.

We help you select the right lawyer abroad and, where required, also provide substantive legal support during the conduct of the proceedings.

Through our daily cooperation with foreign lawyers worldwide in cross-border matters for clients of widely differing profiles — whether private individuals, small and medium-sized enterprises or large corporations — we have developed a trained eye for identifying which local colleague in the relevant foreign jurisdiction, whether inside or outside Europe, is genuinely suitable from a professional perspective and which lawyer is also the right personal fit for the client.

We make a preliminary selection for you of lawyers who are suitable in terms of both expertise and communication, based on the areas of law relevant to your case, and we also support you in negotiating fees with the local lawyer of your choice.

Where necessary, we also accompany you substantively during the proceedings, particularly in complex factual and legal situations, in order to ensure that important factual details are properly introduced into the proceedings and/or that relevant provisions of international conventions, such as the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), are correctly relied upon and applied to the client’s advantage.