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M&A
Milbank advises listed stock corporations, financial and institutional investors and, most often, private equity houses on large and mid-cap M&A transactions, due diligence, post-merger integration, joint ventures and venture capital, with the team having particularly deep expertise in the latter area. Norbert Rieger is the Global Chair of the corporate practice and focuses on corporate acquisitions, private equity, stock corporations and corporate law, while Michael Bernhardt assists with corporate acquisitions and sales as well as cross-border M&A transactions and Sebastian Heim is particularly experienced in advising financial investors on matters related to distressed M&A.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- 'The team provides competent and pragmatic advice.'
- 'Martin Erhardt: An extraordinarily competent and skilled lawyer. He skillfully maintains an overview of his team (including other external lawyers) and can lead clients very well, be they lawyers or management, to the desired result in discussions and negotiations.'
- 'Milbank has developed into an outstanding advisor for us over the past few years, who now knows quite well what makes our company and, above all, our top management tick, what is relevant or less relevant to us and what interests we have in a wide variety of areas. Without Milbank, some of the successfully completed transactions in recent years would certainly not have turned out as they did.'
- 'Dr. Michael Bernhardt, as our “primary” contact, has outstanding expertise/competence and can also provide an excellent assessment of which approach in a particular project has the highest probability of success in the specific situation. He also works at an extremely high pace, like his entire team.'
Key clients
- AUTO1 Group
- Allianz X
- Axel Springer SE
- Deutsche Glasfaser
- Discovery Networks Inc.
- Evoco Ag
- Flender GmbH
- Forto
- Get Your Guide
- Kalera AS
- LGT Bank
- Moonfare GmbH
- NCG – NuCom Group SE
- Otto Group
- Personio
- Pharma SGP
- Productsup
- ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE
- Sartorius AG
- SHL Medical AG
- Sixt SE
- AUTO1 Group
- AUTO1 Group
- Allianz X
- Axel Springer SE
- Deutsche Glasfaser
- Discovery Networks Inc.
- Evoco Ag
- Flender GmbH
- Forto
- Get Your Guide
- Kalera AS
- LGT Bank
- Moonfare GmbH
- NCG – NuCom Group SE
- Otto Group
- Personio
- Pharma SGP
- Productsup
- ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE
- Sartorius AG
- SHL Medical AG
- Sixt SE
Work highlights
- Advising CordenPharma's management on a transaction, including aspects of management participation.
- Advising Sartorius AG on the signing of an agreement to acquire Polyplus for approximately €2.4 billion from private investors including ARCHIMED and WP GG Holdings IV BV, a subsidiary of Warburg Pincus.
- Advising ProSiebenSat.1 Group on the sale of the US portion of Red Arrow Studios' production business to Peter Chernin's The North Road Company.
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Practice head
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Norbert Rieger