Norton Rose Fulbright's advisory capacities include acquisition, asset and corporate financing; banks and financial services providers primarly call upon this expertise as well as companies. Practice head Oliver Sutter and asset and project financing expert Timo Noftz regularly take the lead here; Noftz also focuses on the transport sector. Additionally, clients benefit from cross-border as well as cross-practice cooperation, including interfacing capital markets law, M&A and VC matters.

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Key clients

  • ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
  • Bank of America Corporation N.A.
  • BayernLB / Bayerische Landesbank
  • BNP Paribas S.A.
  • Commerzbank AG
  • Crédit Mutuel
  • Deutsche Bank AG
  • Deutsche EuroShop AG
  • Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG
  • DZ Bank AG
  • enercity AG
  • European Investment Bank (EIB)
  • Fitesa S.A.
  • Hamburg Commercial Bank AG
  • HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG
  • KfW Group
  • KOMSA AG
  • Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW)
  • Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba)
  • MANN+HUMMEL International GmbH & Co. KG
  • Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (NORD/LB)
  • Nordzucker AG
  • NOVENTI Health SE
  • Schnellecke Logistics SE
  • Société Générale S.A.
  • Thüga AG
  • UniCredit Bank AG
  • Varengold Bank
  • Wells Fargo

Work highlights

  • Advising Nordzucker AG on concluding a syndicated loan agreement with a banking syndicate. The new €350 million credit facility replaces Nordzucker AG's existing syndicated credit financing and has a term of five years with extension options for up to two additional years. The interest rate is linked to the company’s ESG rating.
  • Advising NOVENTI Health SE on the refinancing of the syndicated loan amounting to €1.4 billion with a banking consortium led by Deutsche Apotheker- und Ärztebank eG.
  • Advising Banque Européenne Crédit Mutuel (BECM) in connection with the cross-border integration of the German corporate finance business into TARGOBANK.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Oliver Sutter

Other key lawyers

Timo Noftz, Andrea Spellerberg, Bernhard Fiedler, Markus Radbruch, Veit Sahfeld