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With Roland Gall, the commercial law firm SNP Schlawien has gained an experienced partner for the legal areas of family and inheritance law at its Stuttgart office. Gall previously worked for the law firm Schick und Schaudt Rechtsanwälte.

According to studies, there will be a shortage of more than 700,000 flats in Germany in 2023 - especially social housing and low-cost housing. A building offensive is being called for from all sides. But what is the actual state of housing construction in Germany? "Wasteful, too expensive and far too bureaucratic," complain architects. But does it have to be like that? ZDF reporter Julian Schmidt-Farrent reports on a concept that could revolutionise construction in Germany and talks to Dr Olrik Vogel, among others, about its feasibility.

SNP Schlawien is one of Germany's most renowned law firms in private construction law. This is the result of a survey published in the current issue 4/2023 of WirtschaftsWoche, Germany's leading business magazine. In addition, Dr Olrik Vogel, partner at the Munich office, was named a "highly recommended lawyer".

The commercial law firm SNP Schlawien is expanding its range of advisory services in the field of medical, pharmaceutical and competition law with the arrival of lawyer Dr Rupert Weinzierl. The new partner at the Stuttgart office previously worked for the pharmaceutical company Bionorica SE - manufacturer of Sinupret and Bronchipret, among others - and the law firm Lieb Rechtsanwälte.

These days, the tax authorities are sending out property tax notices. With these notices, the freshly renovated property tax system is being applied for the first time. Since the previous property tax system was declared unconstitutional by the Federal Constitutional Court in 2018 for violating the principle of equality, many people are wondering whether they can trust the new system. Among experts, quite a few voices also consider the new system unconstitutional, although it has very little in common with the previous system.

The business law firm SNP Schlawien is once again named "Top Employer for Medium-Sized Companies 2023" in this year's study by Focus-Business magazine. In the 'Legal Advice' category, SNP Schlawien is ranked among the top 25 companies in Germany.

With Dr. A. Olrik Vogel and Dr. Grete Langjahr, the commercial law firm SNP Schlawien has gained two new partners for its construction law practice in Munich. Both come jointly from the Munich boutique Kraus Sienz & Partner.

In his article, Dr. Stefan Schlawien explains that there is a need for action for family-owned companies in the form of a civil-law partnership if they own real estate or shareholdings in companies.

The Internet portal for employer ratings kununu has awarded SNP Schlawien the Top Company seal 2023.

The commercial law firm SNP Schlawien has advised Deutsche Investment Kapitalverwaltung AG on the acquisition of two further residential and commercial buildings with a combined rental area of around 3,700 square meters in the Berlin districts of Friedrichshain and Neukölln.

In the 2022/2023 edition of the Law Firm Monitor, SNP Schlawien is once again among the most recommended law firms in Germany (Top 100) and is named a "leading law firm" in the legal fields of employment law, corporate law, real estate and construction law, capital markets law, public construction law, public law, and contract law.

The commercial law firm SNP Schlawien advised Deutsche Investment Kapitalverwaltung AG on the purchase of two residential and commercial buildings as well as an apartment building with a total of around 5,200 square meters of rental space in Berlin-Tiergarten. The total purchase price was around 18 million euros.

The commercial law firm SNP Schlawien has advised the investment and project development company QUEST Investment Partners on the sale of a commercial and residential building in Frankfurt as part of an off-market deal. The buyer is an international bank that intends to use the property as its new headquarters in the future.

In the article "New paint for old problems" in the current August 2022 issue of JUVE Rechtsmarkt magazine, Sarah Scherwitzki, lawyer and notary in the Berlin office of SNP Schlawien, comments on setting up a company online.

At the webinar "Property tax reform - What's in store for SMEs?" organised by the German Association of SMEs (BVMW), Thomas Kempkes, a specialist tax lawyer at SNP Schlawien's Düsseldorf office, explained important facts about the new legal regulation of property tax to participants.

In its ranking of "Best Lawyers in Germany's" or "Ones to Watch" this year, the Handelsblatt (issue of 24.6.2022) recommends a total of 16 lawyers from SNP Schlawien.

Away from his other work as a lawyer, Christof Blauß was asked today by the radio station 107.7 for a legal assessment of the case of Atakan Karazor, who is in custody pending trial on rape charges in Ibiza.

You can hear the whole interview here

The corporate law firm SNP Schlawien advised LIP INVEST GmbH on the purchase of the Hermes distribution centre in Bexbach near Saarbrücken as part of an off-market deal.

In his article, Stefan Schlawien once again points out new regulations of the fifth EU Money Laundering Directive, which provide for a further considerable expansion of transparency and also contain an extensive catalogue of fines.

The commercial law firm SNP Schlawien has gained Werner Hoffmann as a new partner for its team in Berlin.