References

We have many years of experience as legal advisors at the highest level.

With our longstanding experience we have been standing by national and international clients as partners for many years. We have advised – inter alia – on the following nameable mandates, projects and proceedings:

1komma5° GmbH on capital market law issues in connection with a possible future IPO

ADLER Beteiligungsholding on the sale of Adler Smart Solutions and on all legal aspects of the partnership with EMERAM Capital Partners

Banco Santander on the acquisition of the listed company SIXT Leasing SE and the establishment of a multijurisdictional joint venture with Banque PSA

BASF SE on the sale of its construction chemicals division to Lone Star

Executive Board of Bayer AG on stock corporation law issues in connection with the settlement of the glyphosate, dicamba and PCB litigation in the US

Bilfinger SE on stock corporation law (including AGM) and on the internal investigation relating to breaches of duty by twelve former members of the Executive Board, the assertion of directors‘ liability claims and the conclusion of a coverage and liability settlement agreement

Bitburger Brewery Group on the acquisition of the craft brewery Crew Republic

Bitburger on the acquisition of disinfectant manufacturer Schülke & Mayr

Bitburger Ventures ongoing on corporate and transactional law issues relating to various acquisitions in the venture capital sector

Listed bank in court proceedings relating to termination of executive board member and assertion of liability claims

Supervisory Board of Daimler AG on the establishment of a holding structure with the three pillars Cars & Vans, Trucks & Buses and Financial Services

Deere & Company on the acquisition of the global activities of Wirtgen Group

Detecon International GmbH on the implementation and design of a profit participation rights program

Deutsche Bank AG in connection with internal investigations and the assertion of directors‘ liability claims and the conclusion of coverage and liability settlement agreements with former board members of Group companies

Deutsche Börse AG on stock corporation law (including AGM), on all questions of stock corporation and capital market law in connection with an internal investigation as well as on the planned change of legal form to an SE and on status proceedings pursuant to Sections 98 et seq. AktG

Douglas Holding AG on the takeover by Advent International and the subsequent squeeze out

Energiekontor AG ongoing in stock corporation and capital market law (including AGM)

E.ON SE in stock corporation law, on the spin-off and listing of Uniper SE and on the takeover of innogy SE and subsequent squeeze out

EQT / Banking Circle on the acquisition of SEPAexpress including subsequent investment management and restructuring

Internationally active family business in the field of industrial automation in legal dispute over exclusion of shareholders

Family-run waste disposal and recycling company in all matters of family, inheritance, gift and corporate law in connection with the transfer of company shares to children as gifts

FitnessLOFT Group on the sale of the Group’s entire business to a private equity investor as part of a competitive process

Frankfurter Sparkasse on corporate law issues relating to the acquisition of the new company headquarters

GESCO SE on comprehensive portfolio restructuring and ongoing stock corporation and capital market law advice (including AGM)

Goldbach Group (Switzerland) on comprehensive restructuring of the Goldbach Germany Group and sale of the German business

Grohe AG / Lixil Group ongoing in stock corporation and group law

Shareholder of HMB GmbH on the sale to EMERAM Capital Partners

Hugo Boss AG ongoing in stock corporation law (including AGM)

juris GmbH on the structuring and implementation of the unbundling of its business divisions and various corporate law issues in connection with the participation of the Federal Government

Clinics-Group in arbitration proceedings in post-M&A dispute

L1 Energy on the acquisition of RWE Dea AG from RWE

Lang & Schwarz AG on an ongoing basis in stock corporation and capital market law (including AGM)

LetterOne on the business combination of DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG and the merger of the oil and gas business with BASF subsidiary Wintershall

Linde AG/Linde Portugal, Lda. on the planned carve out and resale of the Portuguese and Spanish assets in connection with the merger with Praxair

Linus Digital Finance AG in stock corporation law (including AGM)

MEDWING GmbH repeatedly in M&A transactions for the acquisition of various personnel service providers in Germany

Pantera AG in stock corporation and group law

Philomaxcap AG ongoing on stock corporation law (including AGM and capital increase in kind), in public takeover offers from Capana Swiss Advisors and H2E Americas LLC as well as in litigation

Shareholder of the Poli-Tape Group in the bidding process and sale to the Italian Fedrigoni Group

Shareholders of the ROBU Group on the sale of their shares to QSIL SE

RENK Group AG on the implementation of an auditor selection procedure in accordance with Art. 16 Regulation (EU) 537/2014

SAP SE on stock corporation law (including AGM)

SAES Getters S.p.A (Italy) on the acquisition of the FMB Group

Schadeberg Family Office (Krombacher) ongoing on corporate and transactional law issues in connection with various acquisitions, including in the venture capital sector

Schauenburg International on various M&A and VC transactions as well as in the context of investment management

Securance (NL) on the acquisition of Berlin-based iAP GmbH

Simon Capital ongoing on corporate and transactional law issues in connection with various acquisitions, including in the venture capital sector

SIXT Leasing SE on the creation and design of a stock option program

Shareholders of Smunch on the sale of all shares to Delivery Hero SE

Solaris SE on the acquisition of the ADAC credit card portfolio from LBB Landesbank Berlin-Brandenburg

Spark Networks SE on extraordinary general meeting in connection with StaRUG proceedings

Various board members on termination of mandate and extrajudicial and judicial defense against directors‘ liability claims

Shareholders of Versandmanufaktur GmbH on the sale to the logistics group GLS

Vodafone on the public takeover of Kabel Deutschland Holding AG and subsequent domination and profit and loss transfer agreement and appraisal proceedings

WAZ Media Group on the restructuring of the Group and the reorganization of its group companies to Funke Media Group

Shareholder of WER GmbH on the sale to US strategist Geiger

Wirtgen Group in several transformation measures