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Provided by Dirk Besse
Mergers + Acquisitions, Private Equity Investments + Buyouts, Emerging Companies + Venture Capital, Government Contracts + Public Procurement, Public Companies Counseling + Compliance, Corporate Finance | Capital Markets, Class Actions + Mass Torts, Product Life Cycle, Financial Services and SPACs.
Dirk is a leading adviser, with more than 20 years of experience advising clients on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, the German Stock Corporation, and capital markets law. His practice has a particular emphasis on the internet, pharmaceutical, finance, telecommunications, and other tech-heavy industries.
He represents clients in relation to major cross-border M&A transactions in Germany, and advises on German foreign investment rules. He has handled prominent public take-over battles, important VC investments such as the investment of SoftBank Vision Funds in Auto1, and cross-border share-for-share deals— such as the merger of Spark Networks and Affinitas— with subsequent listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Dirk regularly advises German publicly listed companies on capital markets law. He is also experienced in the counseling of boards and board directors on governance and compliance issues.
Provided by Chambers
Dirk Besse is active advising on private and public M&A deals and capital markets transactions, especially in the TMT sector. He acts for both large multinationals as well as domestic clients.
Provided by Chambers
Dirk Besse is a great lawyer who gives us a practical solution with reasonable and clear explanations.
Dirk Besse has a keen understanding of client requests and is able to stay solution-oriented, which is something we appreciated.
Dirk Besse is simply super experienced when it comes to supervisory topics. He thinks extremely entrepreneurially and has a pragmatic approach.
Dirk Besse is a great lawyer who gives us a practical solution with reasonable and clear explanations.
Dirk Besse has a keen understanding of client requests and is able to stay solution-oriented, which is something we appreciated.
Dirk Besse is simply super experienced when it comes to supervisory topics. He thinks extremely entrepreneurially and has a pragmatic approach.
