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Berlin, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, London, Munich

Dr Dirk H Bliesener

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Financial Institutions; Bank and Financial Markets Regulation; Financing; Capital Markets (DCM).

Position

Dirk has a broad practice covering the needs of the financial industry, focusing largely on banking and regulatory aspects of domestic and multi-jurisdictional M&A, restructurings and other transactions, as well as on a wide range of finance and debt capital markets matters.

Career

Qualified New York, 1995; Frankfurt, 1998. New York law firm, 1993-94. Joined Hengeler Mueller in 1998, partner since 2002, managing partner 2014-2018.

Languages

German, English, French.

Member

Membership Officer, IBA Banking Law Committee.

Education

Universities of Tübingen, Bonn and Hamburg (Dr jur), Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne (Maîtrise en Droit), IEP de Paris (Sciences Po) and Yale Law School (LLM).

Germany: Banking and finance

Financial services: regulatory

Within: Leading individuals

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Hengeler Mueller advises Silver Lake on FlixMobility funding round

Hengeler Mueller advised Silver Lake on the latest funding round of FlixMobility, the parent company of the global mobility platforms FlixBus and FlixTrain.

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Hengeler Mueller advises Silver Lake on FlixMobility funding round

Hengeler Mueller advised Silver Lake on the latest funding round of FlixMobility, the parent company of the global mobility platforms FlixBus and FlixTrain.

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Hengeler Mueller advises bank syndicate on sustainability-related refinancing of Dürr AG

As part of its sustainability-oriented refinancing Dürr AG has signed a EUR 750 m syndicated credit facility. The syndicated loan consists of a cash facility of EUR 500 m and a letters of credit facility of EUR 250 m. The interest rate is inter alia adjusted subject to a sustainability rating provided by the agency Ecovadis. Considered factors include, among others, CO2 emissions and water consumption as well as fair working conditions at suppliers. The signing of the loan agreement served as a pilot project for the digitalisation of syndication processes, using a Dürr-hosted Blockchain and digital security technology.

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Costs incurred amending tax returns can be offset against estate tax

Heirs are obligated to amend or subsequently file the testator’s incomplete or missing tax returns.

- GRP Rainer LLP
Hengeler Mueller advises Tencent on further investment in N26

As part of an extended Series D Funding round, Tencent Holdings Ltd., one of the leading technology companies particularly in China, has increased its investment in N26 GmbH, a provider of mobile banking services. All previous investors from the Series D funding round in January 2019 have participated in this latest investment in N26.

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Hengeler Mueller advises excellence group Berlin University Alliance

The Berlin University Alliance has qualified as a consortium for a funding in the Universities of Excellence competition of the German federal and state governments. With their joint proposal entitled "Crossing Boundaries toward an Integrated Research Environment", the four Berlin partners – Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin –were able to convince the reviewing Excellence Commission in a highly competitive process. As of November 1, 2019, they will receive up to 196 million euros for an initial period of seven years.

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Hengeler Mueller advises Accel on participation in further sennder funding round

Accel has, together with other co-investors, participated in the Series C funding round of the Berlin-based logistics startup company sennder. Accel had initially invested in the digital road-freight-forwarder as part of the Series B financing in spring.

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Unlawful advertising featuring health claims

Health claims in relation to food items must be supported by accepted scientific evidence. Otherwise, as was recently confirmed by the Oberlandesgericht (OLG) Köln, the Higher Regional Court of Cologne, the advertising is unlawful.

- GRP Rainer LLP
Hengeler Mueller advises Ørsted on GIP's sale of stake in offshore wind farm Gode Wind 1 to Glennmo

Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) is divesting its 50 percent stake in the German offshore wind farm Gode Wind 1. GIP has for this purpose sold a 25 percent stake in the project to each of the investors Glennmont Partners and The Renewables Infrastructure Group Limited (TRIG). Ørsted, global leader in offshore wind and developer of the wind farm, will continue to hold a 50 percent stake in the wind farm.

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BaFin – Binary options still off limits to retail investors

It remains illegal in Germany to sell binary options to retail clients according to an administrative act of Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, the BaFin.

- GRP Rainer LLP
Voluntary disclosure of unreported income in estate

Unreported income in an estate can become a problem for the heirs. If it has been concealed from the tax authorities, it may still be possible to rescue the situation with a voluntary declaration for tax evasion.

- GRP Rainer LLP

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