30-Lawyer Mannheim Office Un-Merges from Shearman & Sterling

The seven-year itch has apparently struck the Mannheim, Germany, office of Shearman & Sterling. The 30-lawyer outpost has reportedly dissolved its 2000 merger with the New York firm, and will now again be known by its former name of Schilling, Zutt & Anschuetz.

"Office head and M&A heavyweight Jochem Reichert leaves Shearman along with corporate partners Martin Winter, Heino Rueck, Stephan Harbarth and Thomas Liebscher; intellectual property partner Thomas Naegele; employment partner Georg Jaeger; antitrust partner Hans-Joachim Hellmann; and the head of Shearman’s German private client group, Stephan Scherer," Legal Week reported.

Shearman & Sterling still has three other offices in Germany, in Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Munich.

News of the Mannheim's office planned departure follows an announcement of a Shearman & Sterling management shake-up last week, which was discussed in an earlier Legal Week article.