RSM Ebner Stolz wins two large teams to build up legal services in Bonn

• Location starts with Corporate/Commercial, Corporate/M&A as well as Public Procurement and State Aid Law
• Key areas complement the legal consulting portfolio of RSM Ebner Stolz
• RSM Ebner Stolz continues its nationwide expansion of legal services in Bonn and plans further additions

Bonn, 2 November 2023 - RSM Ebner Stolz has strengthened its legal arm with two teams around corporate restructuring expert Dr. Pierre Glozbach and public procurement law specialist Martin Schumm, LL.M., effective October 1, 2023. This marks the start of the assurance and consulting firm's development of a legal advisory division at its Bonn office after joining the RSM network and gives it access to the strategically important areas of alternative legal services and legal operations consulting, as well as public procurement and state aid law consulting, among others.

Dr. Pierre Glozbach (47), who joins RSM Ebner Stolz as a partner, focuses on corporate commercial/corporate restructuring with a particular industry focus on the automotive and mobility sector. Due to his many years of in-house work, he also has substantial expertise in the area of alternative legal services and legal operations consulting. After working at the Luther law firm and as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of the Zapp Group, Pierre most recently served as Chief Legal Officer to the international automotive supplier Dura/Shiloh, helping steer it through the recent industry challenges together with his US-based colleague Jonathan Greenberg (56), who will shortly join Pierre as counsel to RSM Ebner Stolz. Pierre and his team also advised and operationally supported the owner of Dura/Shiloh, a private equity investment company, in certain corporate restructuring and reorganization matters. In the future, Pierre will continue to expand legal services at RSM Ebner Stolz in Bonn, acquire international clients and provide them with comprehensive support within the scope of alternative legal services and legal operations consulting.

At the same time, RSM Ebner Stolz strengthens its Corporate/M&A practice with Justus Groß (41), who joins the Bonn office as counsel from Pinsent Masons. He has many years of transactional experience and is primarily focused on advising medium-sized companies and private equity houses. Justus Groß started his career at KPMG Law in 2012 and supported the Corporate/M&A team of Pinsent Masons in establishing the Frankfurt office from 2019.

In larger projects, the team of Dr. Pierre Glozbach, Jonathan Greenberg and Justus Groß, as well as other attorneys, will collaborate closely with other departments and offices of RSM Ebner Stolz.

Martin Schumm (46), who also joins RSM Ebner Stolz as a partner, most recently headed Martini Mogg Vogt's nationwide public procurement practice after holding positions, among others, in Heuking Kühn Luer Wojtek's public sector team. With him, RSM Ebner Stolz gains a nationally recognized procurement law specialist who has made a name for himself in particular in complex technology partnerships in the healthcare sector as well as in IT procurement projects. His clients include numerous ministries and university hospitals, which regularly entrust him with the conceptual design and monitoring of complex procurement projects. Another focus of Martin Schumm's work is advising public transport authorities, for whom he has developed, among other things, a pioneering licensing model for electronic ticket sales. The team closely follows the already established subsidy practice of the Bonn office around RSM Ebner Stolz Partner Martin Theis. The two had already worked together successfully on major projects on a regular basis prior to Schumms' move.

In recent years, topics relating to EU state aid law and subsidy law have played an increasingly important role in project support. With the addition of state aid law expert Valentin Klumb (37), who joins RSM Ebner Stolz as counsel, the team can complete its professional expertise in this area. Valentin Klumb started his career at PwC Legal in 2014 and established himself there and subsequently at Martini Mogg Vogt mainly in advising municipalities and state authorities on public procurement law and EU state aid law. He and Martin Schumm have already successfully advised on projects in the field of public transport and mobility together in their former unit in recent years.

In addition, Senior Associate Lisa Korneli and two senior consultants with specialist backgrounds are joining RSM Ebner Stolz. Together with three procurement managers, they form the central procurement office, which comprehensively digitally processes and designs tenders for clients. The team around Martin Schumm intends to further develop the integrated consulting approach of legal project management and offer it nationwide from the Bonn office.

"With Dr. Pierre Glozbach, Martin Schumm and their teams, we are pleased to have gained excellent and experienced lawyers for the development of our legal services in Bonn. On the basis thus created, we are planning further additions in the coming months in order to be able to offer our clients a full-service range of legal services on site," says Torsten Janßen, auditor, tax advisor and partner at RSM Ebner Stolz.

Press contact

Henning Marburger
RSM Ebner Stolz
Holzmarkt 1
50676 Köln
Phone +49 221 20643-628
henning.marburger@ebnerstolz.de

Firm contact

Torsten Janßen
RSM Ebner Stolz
Joseph-Schumpeter-Allee 25
53227 Bonn
Phone +49 228 58029-212
torsten.janßen@ebnerstolz.de

About RSM Ebner Stolz

RSM Ebner Stolz is one of the largest independent middle-market assurance and consulting firms in Germany. The company is among the top ten in the industry and has broad expertise in assurance, tax, legal and management consulting. With this multidisciplinary consulting approach and as one of the market leaders in the middle-market sector with more than 2,100 employees at 14 locations, RSM Ebner Stolz serves national and international industrial, commercial and service enterprises in all sectors.

As a member of RSM International, RSM Ebner Stolz offers its clients high-quality assurance and consulting services in 120 countries with 830 offices worldwide.