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Ansgar Rempp is Partner-in-Charge of Jones Day Germany. He advises substantial businesses, focusing on cross-border M&A and private equity transactions, post-M&A disputes, as well as high-stakes investigations and compliance matters. Representative transactions include: Plastic Omnium's acquisition of ams Osram's Automotive Lighting Systems business, Hilti's acquisition of Fieldwire, EMERAM's sale of Meona Group, Fosun's acquisition of FFT, SAP's $8 billion acquisition of Qualtrics, Procter & Gamble's €3.375 billion acquisition of the worldwide consumer health business of Merck, GfK in connection with the €2 billion takeover and subsequent taking private by KKR, WL Ross' sale of its majority stake in VTG AG, and MAHLE's acquisition of Delphi's worldwide thermal management business. In 2022, Ansgar led a team of Jones Day lawyers to a landmark victory in an ICC arbitration dismissing in their entirety multibillion EUR breach of contract and tort claims brought by BASF relating to the divestments that Bayer made in connection with its $66 billion acquisition of Monsanto. Ansgar Rempp was named Transatlantic Dealmaker of the Year by The American Lawyer and Legal Week in 2017. Ansgar Rempp was the first German lawyer to receive this award.
Prudence Smith's practice is focused on competition, consumer and regulatory law. Drawing on many years at the Australian competition and consumer law regulator, she is able to help clients achieve favorable outcomes. She advises and represents clients in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore (with locally registered Jones Day lawyers), and throughout the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on a broad range of competition law issues, including cartel and anticompetitive conduct investigations, authorizations, and notifications, as well regulatory issues including Spam Act and AML compliance. She also regularly advises on significant and complex merger clearances and joint ventures, including many cross-border transactions. She has in-depth experience in complex competition and consumer litigation and is regularly sought out by clients that are facing significant and complex regulatory and private litigation issues involving competition law (such as private actions for anticompetitive conduct, including refusal to deal or misuse of market power) or misleading and deceptive conduct representations. Prudence is also often called on by clients who have received a statutory notices for the production of evidence or who are the subject of a search warrant.