Studio Legale Delfino e Associati Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Michael Ilter

Michael Ilter is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, advising on private equity and M&A transactions as well as on corporate law, reorganizations and capital markets law. His practice focuses on representing international clients in complex national and cross-border mid and large cap private equity and M&A transactions. Further, he specializes in advising on growth investments, carve-out transactions, joint ventures, consortia and club deals. Michael has handled numerous private equity, growth and M&A deals including also public, infrastructure, real estate, venture capital and distressed transactions. He has particular experience in the sectors automotive, aviation, financial services, healthcare, industrials, medical technology, software and technology.

Amir Jahanguiri

Amir H. Jahanguiri is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and Co-Chair of the firm’s Project Finance Practice Group. Amir primarily focuses on the development and financing of energy, telecoms and infrastructure projects, public infrastructure projects and complex multi-tranched corporate and hybrid bank and capital markets debt financings. Amir regularly advises host governments, regulators, sponsors, contractors, off-takers, export credit agencies and lenders on the development, financing and restructuring of projects in the public and social infrastructure sectors, including seaports, roads, tunnels, airports, railways, urban mobility, infra tech, telecoms and hospitals among others. He also advises on major projects in the water, power, gas, petrochemical, industrial and metals and mining sectors, mainly in Europe, North and Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle-East.

Anne Kleffmann

Anne Kleffmann is a partner in the Litigation Department and Labor & Employment Practice. She advises companies, private equity firms and financial institutions doing business in Germany on all aspects of individual and collective labor law, as well as transactional labor law. Drawing on her broad experience in the field, Anne helps German and multinational clients navigate complex and business-critical employment law matters, advising on both standalone labor issues and the labor aspects of sophisticated transactions.

Audrey Nelson

Audrey Nelson is counsel in the Business Reorganization & Restructuring Department. Ms. Nelson has significant experience handling out-of-court and cross-border restructuring matters on behalf of debtors, creditors and shareholders, as well as for investment and hedge funds. She has also worked on a number of LBO debt restructurings and lender-led restructurings. Ms. Nelson has advised clients in various industries including media, oil and gas, cosmetics and chemicals in high-profile insolvency proceedings and distressed M&A transactions. Additionally, she handles litigation aspects in connection with distressed company and insolvency matters.

Axel Wahl

Dr. Axel Wahl is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on cross-border and national mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity/venture capital transactions.  In this role Axel has represented financial investors as well as corporate clients.  He further advises the management of companies in transaction situations as well as in general corporate matters.

Bettina Bokeloh

Bettina Bokeloh is a Partner in the Tax Department, focusing on advice to private equity firms and strategic investors on national and international M&A transactions. She also has significant experience in advising multinational corporations on corporate tax matters, including cross-border tax planning and reorganizations.

Brice Pommiès

Brice Pommiès is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions and general corporate law matters. He has also acquired significant experience in corporate finance, with a specific focus on shipping financing. He was seconded to the New York office in 2009 and 2010.

Cédric Hajage

Cédric Hajage is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions. In the area of private equity, Cédric has regularly represented private equity firms in leveraged buy-outs (including through competitive auctions and public-to-private transactions), build-ups and sales.

Charles-Antoine Erignac

Charles-Antoine Erignac is a Special European Counsel in the Public Law department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris. Charles-Antoine has renowned experience in administrative agreements such as public procurements, concessions and public-private partnerships, mainly in the infrastructure and energy sector (such as rail, renewable power and social infrastructures). Charles-Antoine has as well significant experience in economic public law. He has specific knowledge regarding foreign investments in France, State aid, privatisations and regulated sectors (particularly in the aeronautical sector). In this regard, he supports Willkie’s other departments whenever their matters include public law aspects or regulatory aspects (especially in M&A transactions or restructuring operations). He recently worked for various investment funds on their French operations.

Christophe Garaud

Christophe H. Garaud is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris. Mr. Garaud specializes in private equity and mergers and acquisitions transactions across multiple industries. He is actively involved in representing private equity funds in their acquisitions, build-ups and dispositions of targets for both public and private companies both in France and internationally. Mr. Garaud has acted on some of the most significant transactions closed in France.

Cornelia Thaler

Cornelia Thaler is a partner in the Real Estate Department and leads the real estate practice in the Frankfurt Office. She advises private and institutional investors, PE firms, Family Offices and developers on complex real estate transactions, including sales and acquisitions, joint ventures, NPLs infrastructure, asset management and litigation on all asset classes (including data centers, hotels, life science, logistics, office and living).

Dominique Mondoloni

Dominique Mondoloni is a partner in the Litigation Department. He handles general commercial litigation and arbitration, including shareholder disputes and merger and acquisition-related disputes, and white-collar criminal investigations. Litigation Mr. Mondoloni has over 28years experience as a trial lawyer, representing French and foreign clients before the Courts of France in a variety of civil and commercial disputes. Mr. Mondoloni has significant experience handling merger and acquisition related disputes. Arbitration Mr. Mondoloni regularly acts as Counsel to French and foreign companies in ad hoc and institutional arbitration proceedings and regularly advises clients in proceedings before national courts to enforce or set aside arbitration awards. Mr. Mondoloni is regularly appointed as arbitrator in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations. White Collar Criminal Investigations and Defense Mr. Mondoloni acts as Counsel to plaintiffs in white collar criminal investigations conducted in France and as defense counsel to companies and their directors and employees in connecting with white collar criminal investigations. Mr. Mondoloni has handled a large number of investigations for US and French companies in connection with allegations of foreign corrupt practices.

Faustine Viala

Faustine Viala is a partner in the Antitrust & Competition Practice Group. Faustine has experience in European and French competition law. Her main areas of practice encompass merger control, anticompetitive practices (anticompetitive agreements and abuse of dominant position) and distribution law. Faustine advises French and international companies mainly active in the fields of media, sports, chemical industry, aeronautic, cosmetics and telecoms, focusing both on counseling and litigation.

Georg Linde

Georg Linde is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department. He focuses on complex corporate/M&A and private equity transactions. Georg has a particular focus in high-tech sectors including aerospace, IT/telecommunications, chemicals and renewable energies.

Grégoire Bertrou

Grégoire Bertrou is a partner in Willkie's Litigation Department in Paris and the Co-Chair of the Firm Arbitration Practice Group. Grégoire has more than 20 years of experience as a trial lawyer representing clients before French courts and arbitration tribunals. He has acted in more than 50 international arbitration proceedings, both as counsel and arbitrator. His practice focuses on domestic and cross-border litigation and dispute resolution, particularly with regard to M&A transactions, corporate law and general commercial matters. Grégoire also regularly represents clients in complex compliance and enforcement matters, including internal investigations and the resolution of administrative and enforcement proceedings involving either French authorities (Public Prosecutor, AMF, CNIL, DGCCRF, etc.) or foreign authorities (DOJ, OFAC, etc.). Grégoire co-authored Chapter 14, ‘France’s Anticorruption Legal Framework’ in Martin Weinstein, Robert Meyer and Jeffrey Clark (eds.), ‘The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Compliance, Investigations and Enforcement’.

Grégoire Finance

Grégoire Finance is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department. His practice is focused on advising French and international financial institutions and corporate clients on complex international M&A transactions, private equity and leveraged buyouts transactions, bankruptcy sales and recapitalizations as well as corporate governance, commercial and strategic matters.

Grégory de Saxcé

Grégory de Saxcé is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris. A graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences-Po Paris) and Université Paris II – Panthéon Assas, he has spent his entire professional career at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP within our leading Private Equity practice. Mr. de Saxcé focuses on private equity transactions, with a particular focus on cross-border matters and the negotiation of complex incentive packages for rollover management (notably in competitive auctions), in the context of which he regularly advises both corporate clients and private equity funds.

Gregory Astrachan

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Igor Kukhta

Igor Kukhta is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, practicing on the acquisition and corporate finance team in Paris. Igor represents private debt funds, private equity sponsors, special situations funds, corporations and banks in connection with acquisition leverage financings, unitranche bond financings, debt restructurings, distressed financings and equity bridge financings. He also regularly handles corporate finance matters and high-growth companies debt financings. A Native Ukrainian, Igor is fluent in French, English, Ukrainian and Russian.

Jan Wilms

Jan Wilms is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and leads the German Finance Department. He focuses on syndicated lending transactions, in particular leveraged buy-out financing, corporate lending and project financing. Jan regularly advises sponsors, borrowers and lenders on a wide range of syndicated lending matters.

Jasmin Dettmar

Jasmin Dettmar is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Frankfurt. Jasmin focuses her practice on advising on complex acquisition financings for financial sponsors, debt funds and strategic investors as well as on corporate finance matters and financial restructurings.

Jens-Olrik Murach

Dr. Jens-Olrik Murach is a partner in the Antitrust & Competition Practice Group. With more than 20 years of experience practicing antitrust law in Brussels and Germany, Jens’ practice covers the complete range of EU and German antitrust issues across a wide spectrum of industry sectors. Jens has also significant experience in handling Foreign Direct Investment Screening matters, particularly before the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. Jens also advises on EU Foreign Subsidies and EU state aid matters.

Lionel Spizzichino

Lionel Spizzichino is a partner in the Business Reorganization & Restructuring Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris and co-Chair of the European Restructuring Group. He has extensive experience in Lender-led and complex cross-border restructurings as well as French pre-insolvency and insolvency matters, including amicable restructuring, insolvency proceedings, restructuring litigation and distressed mergers and acquisitions. Lionel also advises regularly on mergers and acquisitions with a particular focus on cross border acquisitions and complex carve-outs. His clients include companies, creditors or investors in a wide range of sectors such as airlines, aircraft, media, chemical, financial services and automotive. He also advises investment funds, recovery funds and hedge funds. Lionel has been involved in some of the most significant pre-insolvency proceedings, bankruptcy proceedings and high-profile M&A and distressed M&A cases in France.

Markus Lauer

Markus Lauer is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on public take-overs as well as on complex M&A and corporate transactions. He has broad experience in wide range of transactional matters in the real estate and automotive sectors. Markus assists with joint ventures, general corporate and governance matters and has in depth knowledge of capital markets and related regulatory issues.

Maurizio Delfino

Partner

Maximilian Schwab

Maximilian Schwab is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, advising financial investors/Private Equity Houses and corporate clients on cross border and national mergers and acquisitions, including carve-out transactions as well as international joint ventures and investment projects. Maximilian has a strong track record on advising on transactions in regulated industries such as infrastructure, health care and energy. He holds an Executive Master of Business (EMBA) of University of Münster.

Miriam Steets

Miriam Steets is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on private equity/venture capital investments as well as cross-border and national mergers and acquisitions. Miriam represents both, private equity/venture capital investors and corporate clients in connection with growth oriented investments as well as transaction situations and general corporate matters. In addition, she advises clients on capital market related matters. Prior to joining Willkie, Miriam was a senior consultant at a Big Four accounting firm.

Moritz Vettermann

Dr. Moritz S. Vettermann is counsel in the German Real Estate Department. His focus is on national and international real estate transactions, private equity related real estate invest-ments, portfolio deals and structurings as well as real estate joint ventures. He has worked for clients such as Arax Properties, Tristan Capital Partners, Brookfield, UBS Real Estate, Patri-zia, Blantyre Capital, Greystar, CVC, Lonestar, Groß & Partner, Cheyne Capital, Hudson’s Bay Company, Deutsche Landentwicklung AG, CR Investment Management, Domicil, Ston-eVest AG, Samsung, Colony Capital as well as for various US hedge funds.

Nathalie Duguay

Nathalie Duguay is a partner in the Asset Management Department and has been a practitioner in the area of asset management and in particular the area of private equity fund formation for over 20 years. Nathalie's practice focuses on private equity investment funds (buyout funds, mezzanine funds, distressed funds, debt funds, venture funds, property funds, funds of funds, infrastructure, etc.) and related transactions. She assists clients in the creation of worldwide private equity investment funds and in establishing regulated portfolio management companies. She also advises investment funds and international institutional investors on their portfolio investments and divestments (secondaries).

P. Georgia Bullitt

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Patrick Meiisel

Patrick Meiisel is a partner and heads Willkie's German tax practice. Patrick focuses on providing tax advice for corporate clients, private equity funds and financial institutions on mergers and acquisitions, corporate tax matters, reorganizations, domestic and international tax planning, double tax treaty matters and EU law. He also counsels clients on capital markets and debt finance transactions. Patrick's writings are regularly published in various tax law publications and he is a frequent speaker at seminars and universities. He holds the position of a teacher (Lehrbeauftragter) for tax law at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen.

Paul Lombard

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Philippe Grudé

Philippe Grudé is special European counsel in the Tax Department, focusing on the tax aspects of IPOs, LBOs, mergers and acquisitions and other reorganizations of businesses. Philippe regularly handles complex tax issues relating to mergers and acquisitions and other high-profile transactions. He has significant experience in the areas of tender offers, stock or asset purchases and private offerings of securities.

Simon Osborn-King

Simon Osborn-King is a partner in Willkie's Litigation and Compliance, Investigations & Enforcement Practice Groups in London. Simon has a broad-ranging domestic and cross-border contentious practice specialising in civil, criminal and regulatory investigations and disputes involving allegations of fraud, bribery, money laundering, sanctions violations, data breaches and other misconduct. Simon has particular experience in advising on compliance and governance issues, including the design and implementation of compliance programmes. Simon also frequently handles complex contractual disputes and contentious business restructuring and reorganisation matters in London. Simon’s experience covers a wide spectrum of industry sectors, including financial services, professional services, information technology and energy resources & industrials.

Sophie-Jeanne Laroche

Counsel, Sophie-Jeanne Laroche represents French and foreign clients before national courts in a wide range of complex financial, commercial and corporate litigation (in particular shareholder’s and post-acquisition disputes) often in an international context. She provides strategic advices in pre-litigation or litigation phases for companies handling complex crisis and sensitive disputes. Sophie Jeanne advises her clients on prevention and anticipation conflicts and is actively involved in the development of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms such as mediation. Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2006, Sophie Jeanne received a Master’s Degree (DEA) in Droit Privé Général from University of Paris II Panthéon- Assas and a second Master’s Degree (DEA) in Droit des Affaires et de l’Economie from University Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne. Sophie Jeanne joined the firm in 2006 and became counsel in 2015. She has been lecturer on civil law at Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne.

Thierry Laloum

Thierry Laloum is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and head of the Public & Environmental Law practice of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris. Mr. Laloum has a wealth of experience in economic law (e.g. privatisations, foreign investments in France and financing of local governments), public contracts (concession agreements and public private partnerships), planning law (building permits and expropriation procedures), public domain and regulated sectors. He also advises his clients in high-profile pre-litigation issues (negotiations between the parties, discussions before Experts Committees) and on litigation issues before the administrative judge. Mr. Laloum advises both public (public bodies, local governments, semi-publicly owned companies) and private entities (mainly financial institutions, investment funds and public works companies). Significant projects he has handled include the development of underground trains, high speed railway lines, motorways, ports, hospitals, airports, stadiums, and waste treatment facilities among others, including in the context of Public Private Partnerships (PPP).

Tim Baumgartner

Tim Baumgartner is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and a member of Willkie’s Insurance Transactional and Regulatory Practice Group. Tim has extensive experience advising on a wide range of corporate transactions, including international and domestic M&A (including competitive auction processes on the buy and sell side), joint ventures and long-term strategic partnerships, intra-group restructurings and general corporate advisory work. In additional to general corporate transactions, Tim has a particular focus in the insurance sector, advising on the full spectrum of corporate insurance transactions, which in addition to the above includes transactions within the Lloyd’s market, portfolio transfers and complex reinsurance transactions for both life and non-life businesses.

Todd Cosenza

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Wolfgang Münchow

Wolfgang A. Münchow is counsel in the Corporate & Financial Services Department. Wolfgang’s focus includes mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, real estate, finance and general corporate matters.

Wulf Kring

Wulf Kring is counsel in the Tax Department. He focuses on advising private equity firms, VC funds and corporate clients on M&A transactions and tax-oriented restructurings as well as fund-related tax aspects (including the structuring of investment funds and carried-interest structures). Wulf also has significant experience in capital markets transactions, as well as in advising multinational corporations in connection with (cross-border) tax audits and the conclusion of bi- and multilateral advance pricing agreements (APA).