International law firm Reed Smith is pleased to announce that six of its lawyers have been selected for inclusion in the 2013 editions of Best Lawyers France and Best Lawyers Germany. Benoît Charot (litigation), Marina Cousté (biotechnology and intellectual property) and Michel Debroux (antitrust and European Union) have been selected in France; and Justus Binder (mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital), Michael Fischer (private equity) and Thomas Fischl (information technology) have been selected in Germany.

Best Lawyers is based on an annual peer-review survey and was first published in the US over 30 years ago. Now based in almost 70 countries, this year marks the fourth and fifth editions for France and Germany respectively.

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