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Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability - Germany

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What the Team is Known For

Clifford Chance features a prominent practice that attracts praise for its capabilities in cross-border M&A transactions. The firm regularly handles joint ventures and ensuing transactions, and is well equipped to manage significant international carve-outs. Another strength lies in handling overseas market entries for prominent German clients. The team represents major domestic and international corporates, financial institutions and private equity houses. Its industry expertise spans life sciences and health, energy, financial services, automotive and real estate.

Work Highlights

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  • Clifford Chance advised Harbour Energy on the acquisition of a portfolio of assets belonging to Wintershall Dea from BASF and LetterOne.

Strengths

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They have a brilliant internal network which is skilled and flexible.

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The Clifford Chance team are extremely competent and flexible. Even complex issues are recorded extremely quickly, and legal questions are answered reliably, creatively and quickly.

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Clifford Chance have a high work capacity, local knowledge, team capacity and expertise. It was niche work and they covered all of the bases.

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Clifford Chance know themselves to be not solely external advisers but first and foremost partners. They are on top of fast-moving and complex challenges and provide multiple solutions.

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Clifford Chance struck a good balance between highlighting all of the important issues while also being pragmatic in finding out how to resolve the problem.

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Notable Practitioners

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Thomas Krecek
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Thomas Krecek often acts on M&A transactions in the real estate and financial sectors. He frequently advises on intricate deal structures, such as acquisitions with cooperation agreements, investments by way of capital increase, or business combination agreements.

Thomas Krecek is a perfect service provider: legally and commercially competent, imaginative, always on topic, always focused on the commercial goal and available around the clock.

Thomas Krecek is the one person you want to have on speed dial. He is a perfect blend of intelligence, attention to detail, pragmatism and creativity, and has a great personality.

Thomas is a very technical lawyer, quite pragmatic and very business-oriented. He also always manages to find the right positioning during negotiations to move the discussions forward.

Thomas Krecek is very analytical and is not only good at legal questions, he also has a good commercial mind which is very valuable to us.

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Thomas Krecek
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