Sullivan & Cromwell was again recognized as a leading law firm by Chambers Global. In the 2026 edition, the Firm’s Frankfurt office continues to earn a Band 1 ranking for Capital Markets: Equity and Band 2 for Corporate/M&A: High-End Capability. All 10 partners and one Of Counsel were ranked across four practices. In particular, all seven M&A partners received Band or Up and Coming rankings, documenting S&C’s breadth of market-leading M&A partners in Germany.
Individuals ranked include:
- Carsten Berrar for Capital Markets: Equity, Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability and Private Equity: High End
- Max Birke for Banking & Finance
- Krystian Czerniecki for Capital Markets: Equity and Capital Markets: Foreign Expertise – USA
- Silke Jurczyga for Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability
- Peter Klormann for Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability
- Stephan Rauch for Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability
- Clemens Rechberger for Capital Markets: Equity
- Michael Rosenthal for Competition/European Law: Lawyers Based Abroad
- York Schnorbus for Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability
- Florian Späth for Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability
- Konstantin Technau for Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability
Department rankings include:
- Capital Markets: Debt
- Capital Markets: Equity
- Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability
- International & Cross-Border Transactions
A client commended S&C saying, the Firm “provide[s] very thorough, best-in-class legal assessment with commercial implications and actionable advice. This makes for much smoother and much faster decision-making, driving processes forward.” Another noted, “It is always a pleasure to work with the law firm due to the combination of top-notch legal advice and a very commercial sense of foreign transactions and international mandates, which is outstanding.”