Starting as a spin-off and becoming one of the leading commercial law firms in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region and beyond:
At the beginning of the 1970s, the auditing and tax consulting firm FALK & Co felt the need to offer legal advice to its clients as well, and so in 1973 the auditors and tax consultants Dr. Peter Melchers and Dieter Stocker together with lawyer Ulrich Schubert founded the law firm Melchers Schubert Stocker.
This spin-off expanded over the years to include more and more lawyers. Today, the firm provides legal advice only. However, the name MELCHERS Rechtsanwälte still refers to the auditor and tax advisor Dr. Peter Melchers as the firm’s founder, which indicates the firm’s continuing business law orientation and competence. We still have a close relationship with FALK, but we have also been working very well with other advisors for a long time.
What was originally a tax law practice has now become a full-service commercial law firm, which also represents its clients’ interests in court and in arbitration proceedings. In addition to the classic fields of business law such as commercial, corporate and labour law, MELCHERS also covers special areas such as private construction law, white-collar and criminal tax law, data protection law and gambling law.
The Heidelberg office has been joined by offices in Frankfurt, Mannheim and Berlin. Our clients include, in particular, medium-sized (family) businesses, but start-ups and listed groups also rely on the advisory expertise of MELCHERS. Many companies have been advised by us for decades and in some cases over generations. Both on a project basis as well as in permanent consultancy as an outsourced legal department.
From a single lawyer in 1973, we have grown to 54 lawyers today. And whereas in the early years there were only a few female professionals in our ranks, there are currently 15 female lawyers at MELCHERS, three of whom are partners.
Furthermore, MELCHERS has also become more international: MELCHERS is a founding and exclusive German member of Ally Law, a network of renowned commercial law firms in currently 80 jurisdictions on all continents. Through Ally Law, we provide and coordinate business law advice at the highest level worldwide.
So a lot has happened in the last five decades. However, one thing has not changed in all these years: our high standards in terms of the quality of our advice and our client orientation. For 50 years, we have been driven by the desire to offer our clients the best possible advice tailored to their needs and to effectively enforce their rights. Clients’ continued trust in us confirms that we are on the right track.
