Milbank LLP

Worldwide fee-earners: more than 1100

Number of German partners: 21

Number of German special counsel: 11

Number of German associates: 50

Firm Overview:

Milbank LLP is a leading international law firm providing innovative legal solutions for more than 150 years. Our clients span the public and private sectors, including governments, state-owned enterprises, sovereign wealth funds, export credit agencies, development banks and multilateral institutions, as well as private companies, lending institutions, private equity firms, hedge funds, institutional investors and financial institutions located around the globe who seek guidance on their most important and complex matters.

We are headquartered in New York and have offices in London, Frankfurt, Munich, Hong Kong, Singapore, São Paulo, Tokyo, Seoul, Los Angeles and Washington, DC.

Milbank opened its first German office in Frankfurt in 2001, followed shortly by its Munich office in 2004. As part of our global network, the German offices give Milbank a strong local presence while operating on an international level. Our resident partners offer long-standingexperience and in-depth knowledge of the German market.The firm’s lawyers in Germany provide sophisticated legal advice in all areas that are key to the structuring, financing and successful implementation of deals. We routinely counsel on transactions that set new standards in their sector. Together with our international colleagues, we deliver a unique combination of insightful legal expertise and transactional know-how across many jurisdictions.Our lean, partner-led teams advise clients in making strategic and legally significant decisions based on concepts that generate lasting value.

Main Areas of Practice:

Antitrust & Competition:

The lawyers in Milbank’s German and European antitrust and competition practice in Munich advise on matters covering the entire spectrum of this practice area. These include applying merger control regulations to complex private equity and hedge fund structures, as well as in the strategic planning and subsequent implementation of acquisitions by companies that are already market leaders in their respective areas, cartel and dominance investigations, antitrust litigation, compliance know-how.

Contacts: Alexander Rinne, Moritz Lichtenegger

Banking & Acquisition Finance:

Milbank’s German finance practice focuses on complex cross-border and domestic financing transactions, ranging from acquisitions to corporate, infrastructure, asset and project financings. Working as an integrated team with the London and New York offices, the firm’s finance lawyers in Germany provide comprehensive advice on the German, US and English law in connection with financings in the public and private market to lenders, underwriters/arrangers, sponsors, institutional and corporate clients.

Contacts: Thomas Ingenhoven, Barbara Mayer-Trautmann

Capital Markets:

The team assists clients in raising any kind of equity and debt capital on the international capital markets. The team is familiar with current market trends and is well-versed in the applicable legal requirements, allowing to respond effectively to the needs of the clients and major market developments. The Capital Markets team rely on the expertise gained through breadth of experience and long-standing relationships with financial institutions and issuers to implement complex and industry-leading financing solutions. The team advises issuers, management and shareholders, as well as syndicate banks and investors. The German equity and debt capital market practice works closely with the offices in New York and London. This integration allows the team to participate in new market developments in the most important financial centers around the world and to advise as a one-stop firm on the most demanding international capital markets transactions.

Contact: Philipp Klöckner

Corporate Advisory:

Milbank’s corporate advisory practice is wellknown for its expertise on all aspects of German corporate and capital markets law and corporate reorganisations. Given the potential impact of minority shareholders’ actions for a successful and timely implementation of corporate reorganisations in Germany, the corporate team focuses on the preparation and the coaching of shareholders’ meetings of public companies, as well as corporate litigation and appraisal proceedings following corporate reorganisations. The team also advises on liability matters of board members.

Contacts: Christoph Rothenfusser; Norbert Rieger

Private Equity:

Integrated teams of highly specialised lawyers support sponsors in their investments at home and abroad. Clients turn to Milbank in all stages of private equity transactions from the establishment of funds and the acquisition of portfolio companies to exit strategies. The range of services includes: leveraged buy-outs, take privates, PIPEs, public M&A, fund formation, venture capital, joint ventures, management incentive programs.

Contacts: Michael Bernhardt, Martin Erhardt, Jan Häller, Pascal Härdtner, Sebastian Heim, Markus Muhs, Steffen Oppenländer, Leopold Riedl, Norbert Rieger

Private M&A:

The team focuses on advising public groups, financial institutions and medium-sized companies on complex national and international acquisitions, sales of companies, joint ventures and other transactions. The range of services includes: transaction structuring, due diligence, sale and purchase documentation, post-merger integration, restructuring.

Contacts: Michael Bernhardt, Martin Erhardt, Jan Häller, Pascal Härdtner, Sebastian Heim, Markus Muhs, Steffen Oppenländer, Leopold Riedl, Norbert Rieger

Public M&A:

Milbank’s public M&A team focuses on advising on all aspects of takeovers and mergers of public companies. A close working relationship with the German Securities Agency, broad experience in advising on all corporate law aspects and intensive cooperation with Milbank’s public M&A teams in London and New York ensure a high-level service which is complemented by the corporate advisory practice.

Contacts: Jan Häller, Pascal Härdtner, Sebastian Heim, Philipp Klöckner, Steffen Oppenländer, Leopold Riedl, Norbert Rieger, Christoph Rothenfusser,

Restructuring:

The German restructuring teams advise companies, funds, private equity houses and their portfolio companies, financial institutions and other creditors and debtors in respect of all areas of financial restructurings, corporate workouts, turnarounds and insolvencies, and represent entities interested in acquiring troubled companies, their assets or their debt. Together with Milbank’s market leading restructuring practices in the USA and London, the team provides seamless legal advice spanning all major jurisdictions.

Contacts: Mathias Eisen, Marlene Ruf

Tax:

The tax team advises on all aspects of national and international corporate tax law, focusing on the development and implementation of tax-optimised acquisition and financing structures. The team further advises clients on tax matters of corporate restructurings and other complex and constantly changing matters of corporate tax law.

Contacts: Rolf Füger, Thomas Kleinheisterkamp, Matthias Schell