Ulrich Herfurth has been working as a lawyer in Hanover since 1986 and has been admitted to the bar in Brussels since 2001. He is the founder and managing partner of HERFURTH & PARTNER, a law firm founded in 1990.

His professional focus is on national and international corporate law; he also specialises in the areas of company formation, company acquisitions, shareholdings and corporate structure. He has advised and supported numerous transactions in a wide variety of industries, in particular structural changes in family businesses and acquisitions and shareholdings.

Attorney-at-law Herfurth has focused the firm from the outset on internationality in order to support medium-sized companies in the development of their foreign business. To this end, he established the firm on a multinational basis, with lawyers from more than 12 countries and corresponding language skills. Herfurth & Partner has advised on sales, technology and investment projects in many countries around the world, including Western and Eastern Europe, the USA, Latin America, the Middle East, India, China, Japan, Southeast Asia and South Africa.

Ulrich Herfurth is co-founder and chairman of the ALLIURIS Group with 20 commercial law firms in Europe, Dubai, New Delhi and Sao Paulo. The group cooperates closely and trustfully in all important areas of commercial law.

Herfurth is the founder and publisher of the information service CASTON. He has published numerous publications on national and international law, such as “Business Practice in Europe”, “Real Estate Acquisition in Europe”, “Real Property in Europe”, “Company Acquisition Practice”, “Company Succession Practice” and others.

The special proximity to family businesses is based on early own successful entrepreneurial experience during the study time in the area of project development and general construction in Göttingen. Since then Herfurth is engaged in the association DIE FAMILIENUNTERNEHMER – ASU e.V., since longer than their regional chairman in Lower Saxony.

In addition to his special commitment to family businesses, Ulrich Herfurth is also involved in several other tasks, for example as Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the SüdniedersachsenStiftung, and for several years as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Kali Chemie AG as well as a member and promoter of business initiatives and at universities.