Clifford Chance grows Munich office with high-calibre private equity team International law firm Clifford Chance has boosted its German private equity team with the high-calibre additions of partners Volkmar Bruckner and Mark Aschenbrenner as well as senior associate Samuel Frommelt. All of the new additions will be working from Clifford Chance’s Munich office, while at the same time further strengthening the German and international transaction team with their specialist expertise and market experience. The team will join Clifford Chance from Kirkland & Ellis in Munich, boosting the firm’s partner base in Germany with a particular focus on private equity and financial investors.