Rimon enters Frankfurt with the launch of a new office

Rimon enters Frankfurt with the launch of a new office

Rimon Falkenfort is the 40th office of the 13-year-old US tech-driven law firm, second in Germany after Berlin and seventh new office this year

The tech-driven US law firm's strides towards global expansion continue with the launch of its new office in Frankfurt. It has launched Rimon Falkenfort in Frankfurt with two former Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) partners.

Bernd Geier and Stephan Krampe, ex-BCLP partners along with their former BCLP colleague Michael Magotsch have joined Rimon. They will work closely with former Herbert Smith Freehills partner Dirk Hamann, who opened Rimon's Berlin office last year.

The trio has rich experience of holding senior positions at leading law firms. Geier was head of Dentons' German financial regulation and funds practice before joining BCLP in 2018; Krampe was a highly rated tax partner at BCLP; while Magotsch, an employment specialist, founded DLA Piper's Frankfurt office and was office managing partner until 2009.

Rimon Falkenfort is an independently registered partnership that's integrated with the international law firm and will use its collaborative business model built around cloud and video conferencing.

"Our ambition is to change how law firms do business by efficiently using modern technology that directly benefits our clients," said Geier.

Rimon uses technology to offer its lawyers and their clients an alternative to the time-based business model and hierarchical structures of traditional law firms. The firm functions around a tech platform that allows for flexible office arrangements and collaboration across more than 100 virtual rooms, with admin staff available around the clock. Lawyers can use the rooms to work with each other and their clients and are free to work in the office, on the go or from home.

Rimon also works on a different billing model. Instead of offering profits per partner or bonuses, partners that bring in work have flexibility over how they choose to charge a client, with other partners being paid a fixed internal rate for work referred internally.

Rimon has been on an expansion spree of late to increase its global footprint. The Frankfurt office is the seventh this year following the opening of offices in Seoul, Casablanca, Paris, London, Austin and Montreal. Its office in Hong Kong should follow soon as it has applied for a license to operate there.

Set up in 2008 by founding partners Michael Moradzadeh and Yaacov Silberman in San Francisco, the firm has witnessed rapid growth. By now it has 40 offices spread across various countries.