Experienced. Professional. Committed.

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What others say about us

Confidence

Expertise

Client orientation

Flexibility

Future

Tradition

Confidence

is the basis for good cooperation. Legal structures are the basis of any national or international business activities. Business law is the specialist area of the GRÜTER Law Firm. We offer our clients comprehensive service and competent advice even on complex issues.

Expertise

is the sum total of know-how and experience. Our expertise is the result of decades of practice and the experience thereby gained. GRÜTER’s main practice area has always been national and international corporate and commercial law.

Client orientation

remains the key to success for any type of service provided. A personal relationship based on mutual trust is for us a prerequisite for success. It is the foundation of effective cooperation between lawyer and client. We attach great importance to it.

Flexibility

is the ability to herever it may be required. meet clients’ requirements quickly and comprehensively. We regard ourselves as a modern service provider, taking it as a challenge to offer a comprehensive range of legal services for finding fast solutions to even the most complex legal problems. GRÜTER provides advice on formulating, planning and implementing business transactions at national and international level.

Future

future means constant change and requires an imaginative approach. The increasing use of technology, internationalisation and globalisation will define our clients’ business activities. We are ready to face the future.

Tradition

is the basis of a successful future. GRÜTER has a sound track record of providing legal advice to companies. The foundation of our law firm goes back to the end of the 19th century.

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JUVE-Handbook 2015/2016

The JUVE-Handbook 2015/2016 states about us: “One of the leading law firms in the region. The law firm from Duisburg is particularly well-respected due to its appreciated corporate practice. Distinctive from its local competitors the activities of GRÜTER clearly contain more international context.” With regard to strength it is stated: “strong and regional litigation and corporate practice. Great experience in arbitration.”

Regarding corporate law, the JUVE-Handbook 2015/2016 further sets forth: “recommended law firm for corporate matters which advises its long-term and very loyal clients comprehensively (also in M & A businesses). As GRÜTER is active for top-class clients frequently, it enjoys a very good supraregional reputation.”

In the category “Conflict Resolution/Dispute Resolution, Trade and Liability” it is stated: “The team was able to enlarge its expertise on insolvency proceedings. The law firm benefits from its contacts to insolvency administrators in the Rhine-Ruhr-Region. The arbitration practice experiences an increase of cases with regard to compliance and joint-venture disputes from the renewable energy sector.”

In the section “M&A”, JUVE-Handbook identifies GRÜTER as “estimated law firm from Duisburg which emerges more and more to a serious competitor of large law firms from Düsseldorf”. Additionally, the “long-established tradition in the advice of international enterprises and medium-sized corporations in transactions, in particular in the Ruhr-Region/Westphalia” is strengthened.

The legal 500 Germany

“The legal 500 Germany” 2015 describes GRÜTER as a law firm which is “long established” in Duisburg and which enjoys “outstanding reputation”. The team of 22 lawyers practice in a wide range of commercial law. A particular excellence is in the field of corporate law and M&A, where Dr. Ina Maria Böning is highly appreciated for her “intuition” as well as “consolidated knowledge and excellent support”.

Law firms in Germany

“Law Firms in Germany” 2014 evaluates us as “one of the leading midsize corporate law firms in Germany.” We consider these assessments as acknowledgement and further motivation.