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Baker McKenzie

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Baker McKenzie focuses on export financing as well as cross-border acquisition, corporate and project financing, where the team acts on both the lender and borrower side and regularly cooperates with the international network. The client roster includes international banks and clients from the real estate and infrastructure sectors as well as various private equity sponsors. Practice head Oliver Socher impresses with expertise in acquisition financing and is also well versed in financing issues in the restructuring context.
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  • 'Excellent legal knowledge and common sense. '

  • 'Always approachable, go the extra mile, trusted advisors. '

  • 'In-depth knowledge of financing in emerging markets. Great team spirit and very customer-focused. Excellent quality. '

  • 'Kathrin Marchant is one of the best ECA lawyers in Germany.'

  • 'Very good accessibility and competent answers to questions and presentation of complex issues.'

  • 'Excellent service and knowledge, very pleasant to work with.'

  • 'Kathrin Marchant is solution-oriented and pragmatic.'

  • 'It is very pleasant to work with Kathrin Marchant because she is so friendly and helpful. The response time was fast and the quality impressive. '

Key clients

  • Adiuva Capital
  • AKA
  • Aurelius
  • Bank of China
  • Berlin Hyp AG
  • CAERUS Debt Investments AG
  • Commerzbank AG
  • Credit Suisse
  • DZ Bank
  • Gilde Healthcare

Work highlights

Advising the private equity group AURELIUS on the financing of the takeover of the LSG Group from Deutsche Lufthansa AG.
Advising Standard Chartered Bank, Commerzbank, Kommunal Kredit, Santander and Afreximbank on a €1.29 billion two-tranche loan to support the Angola Rural Electrification Project, which will electrify 60 sites in rural Angola.
Advising the financing lenders on the successful refinancing of the LINDAL Group. The lenders were led by Commerzbank as documentation agent.

Lawyers

Practice head

Oliver Socher

Other key lawyers

Matthias Töke; Kathrin Marchant ; Patrick Mittmann