Latham & Watkins LLP offers a full-service approach and regularly advises companies, private equity funds and debt funds in addition to national and international financial institutions on private equity and M&A transactions as well as refinancing and restructuring. The team also assists with bond financing, investment grade and cross-over investment grade financing as well as private debt. Alexandra Hagelüken advises on German and English law and regularly covers cross-border matters; pertaining to the latter, the team frequently cooperates with the capital markets practice on debt capital instruments. Advising infrastructure players is among the core strengths, where Sibylle Münch is experienced in the fibre optic and energy sectors and most recently advised on various platform financings as well as investments in a European telecoms tower company. Key contact Cora Grannemann is well versed in leveraged buyouts and corporate lending matters. Kim Woggon (private equity, acquisitions and corporate finance) left the firm in April 2023.
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Key clients
- 3i Group
- Alcentra Limited
- Allgeier SE
- Allianz Global Investors
- Apera Asset Management
- Arcmont Asset Management Limited
- Ardian
- Banco Santander
- Bank of Ireland
- Bayerische Landesbank
- Berenberg Bank
- Blackrock
- BNP Paribas
- Bregal
- Capvis Equity Partners
- CAPZA
- Chequers Capital
- Commerzbank
- Crescent Credit Europe
- CVC Credit Partners Investment Management
- Deutsche Apotheker- und Ärztebank eG
- Deutsche Bank AG
- Deutsche Intensivpflege
- DPE Deutsche Private Equity
- DZ Bank
- ELF
- Equistone
- EQT Partners
- Ergon Capital Partners
- Findos Investor
- FSN Capital
- Goldman Sachs
- Hayfin Capital Management
- Hg
- HIG Whitehorse
- IK Investment Partners
- Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
- Lindsay Goldberg
- Nord/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale
- Oldenburgische Landesbank
- One Equity Partners
- Partners Group AG
- Permira Debt Managers
- Trilantic
- Triton
- UniCredit Bank AG
- Waterland
Work highlights
- Advising Cheplapharm on a bridge-to-bond financing and issuance of a high-yield bond to finance the acquisition of worldwide marketing rights (excluding South Korea) for a drug from Eli Lilly and Company.
- Advising GIP and KKR in connection with a strategic co-control partnership with Vodafone to invest in Vantage Towers.
- Advising SGB Smit in connection with the modification and extension of SGB Smit's existing loans as part of a UK restructuring plan.
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