Osborne Clarke has promoted two experienced lawyers to partnership - Dr Nanni Spitzer (Corporate / M&A) and Felix Hilgert (IT). Ghazale Mandegarian-Fricke (Competition /Antitrust) and Karl Krogoll (Tax) have also been made Counsels.
Nanni and Felix have been working for Osborne Clarke since completing their studies. Nanni specializes in advising on national and international mandates in general corporate law and M&A transactions as well as retail-related commercial tenancy law. She is currently based in Osborne Clarke's New York office. Felix Hilgert provides comprehensive IT consulting for companies in the games industry with a specialization in the protection of minors. He is recognised as one of the top three experts in Germany in this area. He also specializes in advising on complex IT contracts, in particular for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and, increasingly, Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS).
Ghazale Mandegarian-Fricke and Karl Krogoll become Counsels
Ghazale has been with Osborne Clarke since 2016. Her focus is on compliance, merger control and antitrust investigations. Karl has been with Osborne Clarke since 2017 and advises wealthy private individuals in addition to advising on tax optimized successor designs. He works at the interface between tax law, inheritance and company law and international private law.