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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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Gregory Astrachan

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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.

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

Maurizio Delfino is a Senior Counsel in the Corporate and Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, the founding partner of Delfino e Associati Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (“D-WFG”), and the Chairman of D-WFG Executive Committee. Maurizio’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions of listed or unlisted companies, including distressed, joint ventures and public/private partnerships, corporate governance and general corporate and securities law matters. Maurizio has been the lead corporate lawyer in a number of high profile transactions, including hostile takeover bids and buy outs on behalf of Italian or international clients of the firm. He has represented government owned corporations, public and private companies and financial investors in a wide range of Italian and cross border transactions. He has also assisted the Italian Treasury on a number of privatizations. In addition, Maurizio has advised board of directors and board committees on a variety of corporate governance issues. The industries where Maurizio has acted for either strategic or financial investors in Italy are diverse and include banking and insurance, various infrastructure, steel, oil and gas, chemical and pharmaceutical, automotive, aerospace and defense, food, design. He has also assisted on various Italian SPAC projects. Maurizio has written monographs and published articles in law reviews and is a frequent lecturer in the fields of ESG compliance, corporate finance and the protection of minority shareholders.

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.

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.

Simon Osborn-King

Simon Osborn-King is a partner in Willkie's Litigation and 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.

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).

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