The law firm specialising in international trade, transport and shipping Ahlers & Vogel was established in 1858 as a law firm in Bremen. It now has 40 lawyers based in three offices. 25 of its lawyers work from the Bremen office while the others work from offices in Hamburg and Rostock. Its regular clients have always been those businesses associated with the ports in Bremen. Consequently it offers a high level of skills and expertise in all legal aspects of international trade, transport and shipping. These include in particular shipping and transport law plus customs law. There is hardly any other law firm in this part of Germany which is seriously involved in customs law.
In addition to this, Ahlers & Vogel also has experienced specialists in all other fields of law revelant for business.
These fields include company law and corporate law, tax law, employment law and the law concerning employees? representation and co-determination in a business, company succession, European law and foreign trade, construction law, architects? law, property law, public procurement law and administrative law, banking law and insolvency law, competition law, and new media law, insurance law, and government liability law, professional negligence and medical law, family and inheritance law, conducting trials in courts and arbitration proceedings.
Moreover, the office in Bremen has an extensive notary?s office with facilities for drafting and recording documents in English, French and Italian as well.
Ahlers & Vogel is a member of MSI Legal & Accounting Network Worldwide.