Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Matthias Schudlo

Dr. Matthias Schudlo is a partner in the Corporate and Financial Services Department focusing on complex cross-border and national mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity transactions. Prior to joining Willkie, Matthias was an associate at another international law firm. Matthias has a focus on infrastructure, transportation and chemicals.

Kamyar Abrar is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, where he focuses on private equity and M&A transactions, including distressed transactions. He has handled numerous transactions in a variety of industries. Kamyar also counsels clients on a wide variety of antitrust and compliance issues, ranging from mergers and acquisitions, B2B exchanges, joint ventures and distribution practices to civil litigation. He has represented clients before the European Commission, the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) as well as German courts.

Bettina Bokeloh

Bettina Bokeloh is a Partner in the Tax Department, focusing on advice to private equity firms and strategic investors on national and international M&A transactions. She also has significant experience in advising multinational corporations on corporate tax matters, including cross-border tax planning and reorganizations.

Jasmin Dettmar is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Frankfurt. Jasmin focuses her practice on advising on complex acquisition financings for financial sponsors, debt funds and strategic investors as well as on corporate finance matters and financial restructurings.

Michael Ilter is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, advising on private equity and M&A transactions as well as on corporate law, reorganizations and capital markets law. His practice focuses on representing international clients in complex national and cross-border mid and large cap private equity and M&A transactions. Further, he specializes in advising on growth investments, carve-out transactions, joint ventures, consortia and club deals. Michael has handled numerous private equity, growth and M&A deals including also public, infrastructure, real estate, venture capital and distressed transactions. He has particular experience in the sectors automotive, aviation, financial services, healthcare, industrials, medical technology, software and technology.

David Jansen is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services and Asset Management Departments. He focuses his practice on advising clients on financial services regulatory and asset management matters as well as on M&A transactions in the financial sector. David provides counsel on banking and insurance regulatory matters, and also advises asset management companies on the structuring and launch of investment funds. He also advises institutional investors, family offices and high-net-worth individuals on their investment management matters. In addition, he regularly represents clients in proceedings before European and German regulatory authorities.

Anne Kleffmann is a partner in the Litigation Department and Labor & Employment Practice. She advises companies, private equity firms and financial institutions doing business in Germany on all aspects of individual and collective labor law, as well as transactional labor law. Drawing on her broad experience in the field, Anne helps German and multinational clients navigate complex and business-critical employment law matters, advising on both standalone labor issues and the labor aspects of sophisticated transactions.

Ulrich Klockenbrink

Dr. Ulrich Klockenbrink is a partner in Latham's German Finance Department and a member of the Restructuring & Special Situations Practice. Dr. Klockenbrink has more than 13 years experience in navigating clients through complex restructuring, distressed M&A, and enforcement situations, both in-court and out-of-court. He is well-regarded for his empathetic approach and his great sense for pragmatic solutions. He advises investors, shareholders, lenders, lender groups, steering committees, insolvency administrators, and distressed companies in: Restructuring Insolvency Financing matters He has authored numerous articles on restructuring, insolvency, and distressed investment topics. Dr. Klockenbrink is a member of TMA Germany e.V. and of the German-American Lawyers Association (DAJV). His background as a paratrooper and as an experienced restructuring lawyer position Dr. Klockenbrink as the go-to person in any type of stressful restructuring situation.

Wulf Kring is counsel in the Tax Department. He focuses on advising private equity firms, VC funds and corporate clients on M&A transactions and tax-oriented restructurings as well as fund-related tax aspects (including the structuring of investment funds and carried-interest structures). Wulf also has significant experience in capital markets transactions, as well as in advising multinational corporations in connection with (cross-border) tax audits and the conclusion of bi- and multilateral advance pricing agreements (APA).

Markus Lauer is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on public take-overs as well as on complex M&A and corporate transactions. He has broad experience in wide range of transactional matters in the real estate and automotive sectors. Markus assists with joint ventures, general corporate and governance matters and has in depth knowledge of capital markets and related regulatory issues.

Georg Linde is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department. He focuses on complex corporate/M&A and private equity transactions. Georg has a particular focus in high-tech sectors including aerospace, IT/telecommunications, chemicals and renewable energies.

Joe Marx is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and a member of the Capital Markets Practice Group. He has over 20 years of experience in international capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, rights issuances, accelerated primary and secondary offerings, Rule 144A transactions, US registered offerings, private placements and debt offerings, as well as cross-border mergers and acquisitions, dual track processes and other corporate transactions. Joe advises clients across a broad range of industries, including chemicals, life science, real estate and the automotive industry.

Patrick Meiisel

Patrick Meiisel is a partner and heads Willkie's German tax practice. Patrick focuses on providing tax advice for corporate clients, private equity funds and financial institutions on mergers and acquisitions, corporate tax matters, reorganizations, domestic and international tax planning, double tax treaty matters and EU law. He also counsels clients on capital markets and debt finance transactions. Patrick's writings are regularly published in various tax law publications and he is a frequent speaker at seminars and universities. He holds the position of a teacher (Lehrbeauftragter) for tax law at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen.

Wolfgang Münchow

Wolfgang A. Münchow is counsel in the Corporate & Financial Services Department. Wolfgang’s focus includes mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, real estate, finance and general corporate matters.

Dr. Wolfram Prusko is a partner in the Business Reorganization & Restructuring group in Frankfurt. His practice is focused on the representation of investors, debtors and creditors with respect to cross-border special situations, restructurings — particularly financial and bond restructurings — and insolvency proceedings. Wolfram is experienced in real estate and international bank restructurings. He worked on a number of landmark international cases over the recent years in Germany and Central Europe, which include the comprehensive restructuring of the Croatian food conglomerate Agrokor (transformed into Fortenova), the resolution of the Austrian bad bank HETA Asset Resolution (f/k/a Hypo Alpe Adria Bank) and financial restructuring of the German real estate group IVG Immobilien.

Dr. Richard Roeder is a partner in Willkie’s German practice. He is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department and Willkie’s Global Trade & Investment, Compliance, Investigations & Enforcement and Environmental, Social & Governance practice groups. Richard focuses on international trade, compliance and white collar investigations, as well as transactional regulatory risk assessments. He advises clients from various industries in the areas of sanctions, export control, supply chain, anti-money-laundering and anti-corruption compliance. His clients include in particular financial services and insurance companies as well as companies from the automotive, mining, oil and gas, healthcare and information technology sectors.

Matthias Schrader

Matthias Schrader is a partner and heads Willkie’s Litigation Practice Group in Germany. In addition to domestic and international litigation and arbitration matters, his practice focuses on compliance and regulatory matters across a broad spectrum of industries. As a litigator, Matthias acts as counsel to both claimants and respondents in a wide variety of commercial litigations and arbitrations before various courts and arbitral tribunals under the auspices of the world’s leading arbitral institutions (ICC, LCIA, SIAC, DIS, etc.). He has successfully negotiated out-of-court settlements of complex disputes for a variety of commercial and private clients. Furthermore, he has represented sovereigns in litigations as well as international investment arbitrations. Matthias also acts as arbitrator in high-stakes commercial arbitrations. Matthias regularly advises clients on matters of European and German anti-money-laundering and anti-terrorism-financing regulations, sanctions, financial markets compliance, including allegations of insider trading and market manipulation, antitrust and State-aid law and day-to-day compliance issues. He represents a diverse client base including health care, chemicals, natural resources, energy and mining, consumer goods and retail, high-tech, automotive, real estate and financial institutions. In addition to in-court representation, Matthias has acted for clients towards state prosecutors, regulatory authorities and public consumer associations on matters of proper business conduct and fair competition.

Maximilian Schwab

Maximilian Schwab is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, advising financial investors/Private Equity Houses and corporate clients on cross border and national mergers and acquisitions, including carve-out transactions as well as international joint ventures and investment projects. Maximilian has a strong track record on advising on transactions in regulated industries such as infrastructure, health care and energy. He holds an Executive Master of Business (EMBA) of University of Münster.

Miriam Steets is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on private equity/venture capital investments as well as cross-border and national mergers and acquisitions. Miriam represents both, private equity/venture capital investors and corporate clients in connection with growth oriented investments as well as transaction situations and general corporate matters. In addition, she advises clients on capital market related matters. Prior to joining Willkie, Miriam was a senior consultant at a Big Four accounting firm.

Cornelia Thaler

Cornelia Thaler is a partner in the Real Estate Department and leads the real estate practice in the Frankfurt Office. She advises private and institutional investors, PE firms, Family Offices and developers on complex real estate transactions, including sales and acquisitions, joint ventures, NPLs infrastructure, asset management and litigation on all asset classes (including data centers, hotels, life science, logistics, office and living).

Dr. Axel Wahl is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on cross-border and national mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity/venture capital transactions. In this role Axel has represented financial investors as well as corporate clients. He further advises the management of companies in transaction situations as well as in general corporate matters.

Simon Weiss is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and a member of the Firm’s Capital Markets Practice Group. He focuses on equity and debt capital markets transactions and has a wealth of experience across IPOs, capital increases, equity-linked transactions and investment grade and high-yield bond offerings. Simon regularly advises issuers, underwriters and other key market players in a wide range of complex domestic and cross-border transactions. Simon also advises on regulatory issues relating to capital markets transactions, M&A and corporate matters.

Jan Wilms is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and leads the German Finance Department. He focuses on syndicated lending transactions, in particular leveraged buy-out financing, corporate lending and project financing. Jan regularly advises sponsors, borrowers and lenders on a wide range of syndicated lending matters.