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Provided by Anselm Lenhard
Anselm has a broad practice as a banking & finance lawyer and assists clients with debt finance transactions across the entire credit spectrum.
He has a particular focus on leveraged finance and regularly advises on acquisition financings and other sponsor-driven financings in various structures, often as part of LARK’s private equity practice.
Another core area of his practice is advising on corporate financings in the investment grade and cross-over credit spectrum. He advises on bilateral and syndicated credit financings, private placements such as Schuldschein loans and other complex structured financings as well as intra-group financings such as the set-up and implementation of cash pooling and clearing systems.
Anselm is also experienced in venture debt financings for growth companies and advises in sync with LARK’s venture capital practice.
He also supports clients with financial restructurings.
In addition, Anselm has extensive experience with litigation finance transactions and provides transactional advice to prominent litigation funding firms, hedge funds, and other investors in this burgeoning field of specialty finance on a regular basis.
Anselm is a founding partner of LARK.
Prior to joining LARK, he established and led the debt finance practice of GLNS after several years in the banking & finance practice group of Freshfields in Munich, Frankfurt and New York.
Anselm also has first-hand knowledge of the internal processes of legal and corporate development departments of larger corporate groups, having worked briefly as in-house counsel in the banking & finance legal department of Siemens AG, Munich and as secondee to the corporate M&A department of Deutsche Bank AG, New York.
Corporate Banking
- teccle group on debut syndicated credit financing by UniCredit Bank AG, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S.A. and Frankfurter Sparkasse for refinancing purposes and further expansion of the group pursuant to its buy-and-build strategy
- zooplus (formerly MDAX) on EUR 120,000,000 debut syndicated revolving credit financing arranged by UniCredit Bank AG and Landesbank Baden-Württemberg as well as its amendment and restatement following the successful public takeover by private equity investors Hellman & Friedman and EQT
- Ewald Dörken AG on strategic financing for the acquisition of Wischemann Group
- P&P Group on first ESG-linked Schuldschein loan transaction
- MorphoSys (SDAX and TecDAX) on group-internal financing as well as other publicly listed and non-listed corporate groups on set-up and implementation of cash pooling and clearing systems
Leveraged Finance
- FSN Capital on unitranche financing provided by Pemberton for acquisition of bakery chain Bäcker Görtz
- Afinum on structured debt financings for platform investments in technology specialist Christian Koenen Group and high-end-cloud, data center and software-solutions provider synaforce, including add-on financings
- VALLEY IT GROUP (formerly LMP IT Holding) on recapitalisation and buy-and-build financing by way of unitranche financing provided by Apera Asset Management
- Egeria Capital Management on syndicated credit financing provided by Landbank Baden-Württemberg, Bayerische Landesbank and Oldenburgische Landesbank for acquisition of premium spa and sauna manufacturer Klafs Group
- FSN Capital on super senior/senior refinancing of logistics IT group ecovium by Partners Group and Oldenburgische Landesbank in connection with the add-on acquisition of the Greek Mantis Group as well as on unitranche financing provided by Cordet Capital for initial acquisition of ecovium (formerly MHP Solution Group)
Venture Debt
- Employee communications cloud Staffbase on EUR 50,000,000 revolving credit facility by J.P. Morgan and KfW
- Digital health company Ada Health on EUR 30,000,000 growth debt financing by IPF Partners
- Meal kit provider Marley Spoon on USD 65,000,000 growth debt financing by Runway Growth Credit Fund as well as venture debt financings by Western Technology Investment (WTI) and Global Growth Capital
- Consumer credit comparison platform smava on financing of acquisition of FINANZCHECK by way of venture debt financing provided by Kreos Capital and Proventus Capital Partners
- E-commerce aggregator Razor Group on venture debt financing by Claret Capital
Englisch, German and Spanish
Provided by Chambers
Anselm Lenhard of LARK is particularly experienced in the leveraged finance space while also advising mid-market borrowers on corporate loans and refinancings.
Anselm Lenhard von LARK verfügt über besondere Erfahrung im Bereich Leveraged Finance und berät mittelständische Kreditnehmer bei Unternehmenskrediten und Refinanzierungen.
Provided by Chambers
Anselm Lenhard is a highly sophisticated and pragmatic lawyer who has an extremely good network in the financing space. It is a pleasure to work with him.
Anselm Lenhard ist ein sehr anspruchsvoller und pragmatischer Anwalt, der über ein extrem gutes Netzwerk im Finanzierungsbereich verfügt. Es ist eine Freude, mit ihm zusammenzuarbeiten.
Anselm Lenhard is a highly sophisticated and pragmatic lawyer who has an extremely good network in the financing space. It is a pleasure to work with him.
Anselm Lenhard ist ein sehr anspruchsvoller und pragmatischer Anwalt, der über ein extrem gutes Netzwerk im Finanzierungsbereich verfügt. Es ist eine Freude, mit ihm zusammenzuarbeiten.
