Acting for both corporate and private equity borrowers and bank lenders, Baker McKenzie is adept at overseeing the structuring of acquisition finance facilities, infrastructure credit and places an increased focus on export financing. Oliver Socher oversees new money syndicated loans and is also able to assist his clients with the restructuring of their lines of credit. He leads the team alongside Sandra Wittinghofer, a specialist in structured finance and associated questions of banking regulation.
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- ‘Matthias Töke: very responsive, hands-on mentality, very knowledgeable.'
- 'Baker McKenzie brings strong experience in lending and borrowing; especially in the areas of (1) Export Finance and (2) Securitization. Key strengths include: delivering on time and within agreed budgets.'
- 'Baker McKenzie's team is outstanding in its capabilities to support business opportunities worldwide, especially in jursidictions not covered by most of its competitors.'
Key clients
- AKA Ausfuhrkreditgesellschaft
- Apollo Global Management
- Aurelius
- Bank of China
- Commerzbank
- Development Bank of Kazakhstan
- DZ Bank
- Energie Burgenland AG
- Gyrus Capital
- KfW-IPEX Bank
- Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale
- MUFG
Work highlights
Advised Oldenburgische Landesbank Aktiengesellschaft in its capacity as sole mandated lead arranger and lender on the financing of the acquisition of the adlicious Group by FIELDS Group.
Advised ING Bank, Bank of China, Development Bank of Kazakhstan and Halyk Bank for a project financing for a soda ash plant of the Yildirim Group in Kazakhstan.
Advised Truelink Capital on the financing of the acquisition of MEDIA Central Group from Bregal Unternehmerkapital and subsequent business combination with Flipp Operations Inc.
Practice head
Oliver Socher; Sandra Wittinghofer
Other key lawyers
Kathrin Marchant; Matthias Töke