M&A
Bird & Bird LLP's advice spans the entire life cycle of national and cross-border transactions, with the practice's expertise also including competition law and due diligence reviews, restructuring and antitrust aspects. The team assists start-ups, medium-sized companies and global corporations and is primarily active in the technology, automotive, life sciences and communications sectors. Kai Kerger focuses on providing transactional advice to IP and IT companies and Stefan Münch on companies from the technology and communications, life sciences and healthcare sectors. Corporate and transaction lawyer Alfred Herda retired in May 2023, while former practice head Hans Peter Leube (M&A and private equity transactions in the telecommunications, media, infrastructure and automotive sectors) as well as Marianne Nawroth, who focuses on M&A deals in the telecommunications and IT sectors, joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in December 2023.
Key clients
- Azolver Holding GmbH
- Cyient Limited
- EFESO Management Consultants
- FinCompare
- Fortum Oyj
- Free2move (Stellantis Group)
- Gofore Oyj
- Labvantage Solutions
- Sojitz
- Tampnet AS
- Transmed
- UNITED Marketing Technologies by DuMont
- Wascosa AG
- Wolfspeed, Inc.
Work highlights
- Advising Norwegian company Tampnet AS on the acquisition of all shares in dasNetz AG.
- Advising NYSE-listed Wolfspeed, Inc. on a semiconductor technology partnership with automotive supplier and global technology company ZF Friedrichshafen.
- Advising EFESO Management Consultants on their joint venture with Austrian Tsetinis Consulting.