Legal Services in Germany

Introduction

Legal Services in Germany industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value and volume 2006-10, and forecast to 2015). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the Germany legal services market. Includes market size data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

Highlights

*The legal services market includes practitioners of law operating in every sector of the legal spectrum. These include commercial, criminal, legal aid, insolvency, labor/industrial, family and taxation law. The market's value is calculated as the total revenues received by law companies for services rendered. These values include all applicable taxes. Market volumes in this report refer to the total number of legal professionals. All currency conversions are calculated at constant average annual 2010 exchange rates.

*The German legal services market had total revenues of $33.7 billion in 2010, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.4% between 2006 and 2010.

*The number of legal professionals increased with a CAGR of 2.6% between 2006 and 2010, to reach a total of 153,251 in 2010.

*The performance of the market is forecast to accelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 5% for the five-year period 2010 - 2015, which is expected to drive the market to a value of $43.1 billion by the end of 2015.

Features

Save time carrying out entry-level research by identifying the size, growth, and leading players in the legal services market in Germany

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Leading company profiles reveal details of key legal services market players’ global operations and financial performance

Add weight to presentations and pitches by understanding the future growth prospects of the Germany legal services market with five year forecasts by both value and volume

Macroeconomic indicators provide insight into general trends within the Germany economy

Key Questions Answered

What was the size of the Germany legal services market by value in 2010?

What will be the size of the Germany legal services market in 2015?

What factors are affecting the strength of competition in the Germany legal services market?

How has the market performed over the last five years?

How large is Germany’s legal services market in relation to its regional counterparts?
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2
MARKET OVERVIEW 7
Market definition 7
Research highlights 8
Market analysis 9
MARKET VALUE 10
MARKET VOLUME 11
MARKET SEGMENTATION 12
FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 13
Summary 13
Buyer power 14
Supplier power 15
New entrants 16
Substitutes 17
Rivalry 18
LEADING COMPANIES 19
Clifford Chance LLP 19
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP 20
Hengeler Mueller 22
Taylor Wessing LLP 23
MARKET FORECASTS 24
Market value forecast 24
Market volume forecast 25
MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS 26
APPENDIX 28
Methodology 28
Industry associations 29
Related Datamonitor research 29
Disclaimer 30
ABOUT DATAMONITOR 31
Premium Reports 31
Summary Reports 31
Datamonitor consulting 31

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Germany legal services market value: $ billion, 2006–10 10
Table 2: Germany legal services market volume: thousand units, 2006–10 11
Table 3: Germany legal services market segmentation: % share, by value, 2010 12
Table 4: Clifford Chance LLP: key facts 19
Table 5: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP: key facts 20
Table 6: Hengeler Mueller: key facts 22
Table 7: Taylor Wessing LLP: key facts 23
Table 8: Germany legal services market value forecast: $ billion, 2010–15 24
Table 9: Germany legal services market volume forecast: thousand units, 2010–15 25
Table 10: Germany size of population (million), 2006–10 26
Table 11: Germany gdp (constant 2000 prices, $ billion), 2006–10 26
Table 12: Germany gdp (current prices, $ billion), 2006–10 26
Table 13: Germany inflation, 2006–10 27
Table 14: Germany consumer price index (absolute), 2006–10 27
Table 15: Germany exchange rate, 2006–10 27

LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Germany legal services market value: $ billion, 2006–10 10
Figure 2: Germany legal services market volume: thousand units, 2006–10 11
Figure 3: Germany legal services market segmentation: % share, by value, 2010 12
Figure 4: Forces driving competition in the legal services market in Germany, 2010 13
Figure 5: Drivers of buyer power in the legal services market in Germany, 2010 14
Figure 6: Drivers of supplier power in the legal services market in Germany, 2010 15
Figure 7: Factors influencing the likelihood of new entrants in the legal services market in Germany, 2010 16
Figure 8: Factors influencing the threat of substitutes in the legal services market in Germany, 2010 17
Figure 9: Drivers of degree of rivalry in the legal services market in Germany, 2010 18
Figure 10: Germany legal services market value forecast: $ billion, 2010–15 24
Figure 11: Germany legal services market volume forecast: thousand units, 2010–15 25


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