The Ger­man cap­i­tal of Berlin has not on­ly gained na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion as a po­lit­i­cal and cul­tur­al pow­er­house; it has al­so emerged as a cen­tre for tech­nol­o­gy and the ser­vice in­dus­try in re­cent years ow­ing to its mod­ern com­mu­ni­ca­tion net­works, and its seat of sev­er­al promi­nent ed­u­ca­tion es­tab­lish­ments. As ear­ly as in 1989 we es­tab­lished our Berlin of­fice in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the for­mer May­or of Berlin, Mr. Eber­hard Diep­gen.In-line with the pro­found changes and im­pact of the Ger­man re­uni­fi­ca­tion on the Ger­man econ­o­my, in par­tic­u­lar on the econ­o­my of Berlin, the fo­cus of the ad­vice pro­vid­ed by our Berlin lawyers had ini­tial­ly been on le­gal is­sues linked to Ger­man re­uni­fi­ca­tion.