Milbank focuses on acquisition, corporate and infrastructure financing, including cross-border matters thanks to the close cooperation with locations in England and the US. The advisory offering also includes matters under German, English and New York law, thus, the practice regularly supports international private equity and private debt funds in various leveraged finance transactions and advises large companies and syndicated lenders in connection with cross-border corporate financing, particularly with ESG aspects. The latter focus area is routinely handled in cooperation with the capital markets team and leads to frequent instructions on sustainability-related financing and bonds. Co-head Thomas Ingenhoven specialises in acquisition financing and co-leads with Barbara Mayer-Trautmann, who focuses on infrastructure financing.
Key clients
- Ardian Private Equity
- Ares Management
- Auto1 Group SE
- Axel Springer SE
- Barings LLC
- Best Secret
- Bike24 Holding AG
- BofA Securities Inc.
- Bregal Unternehmerkapital GmbH
- Commerzbank AG
- Deutsche Beteiligungs AG
- EIG Global Energy Partners
- FUNKE Mediengruppe
- Goldman Sachs
- Hayfin Capital Management LLP
- Hensoldt AG
- Hg Capital
- H.I.G. Capital
- HPS Investment Partners
- HSBC Contintental Europe S.A.
- IK Partners
- ING Bank
- Investec Bank plc
- J.P. Morgan AG
- KAEFER SE & Co. KG
- Körber AG
- Leonine Holding GmbH
- Maguar Capital Partners
- Morgan Stanley Bank AG
- Mytheresa
- Pemberton
- PharmaSGP
- ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE
- UniCredit Bank GmbH
- Webasto SE
- Zvoove Group
Work highlights
- Advising a consortium of investors on the financing of the takeover of Schülke & Mayr GmbH.
- Advising HENSOLDT AG on the financing of the acquisition of ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH.
- Advising Deutsche Bank, ING Bank and UniCredit in their role as joint underwriters and bookrunners on the financing of the acquisition of Vodafone Italia.