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Reportage of E.ON in the business press has been dominated by its large, highly complex and €43bn valued acquisition of innogy, as part of a voluntary public takeover offer agreed with innogy’s owner RWE. This agreement, which will see E.ON take on Innogy’s grid and retail business while RWE will take retain innogy’s and take on E.ON’s renewable energy assets, is due in large part to the efforts of E.ON’s highly effective and capable in-house legal team. Dr Guntram Würzberg leads the team, while head of legal M&A Sebastian Heidtkamp and head of corporate and finance law Dr Dermot Fleischmann can take a large amount of credit for this eye-catching deal, rated by the industry press as among the most impressive conducted across Europe over the last year.