Ludger Schult

Ludger has been practicing law for over 20 years with a focus on M&A/private equity transactions. He has assisted national and international clients in more than 250 completed transactions in a variety of industries, predominantly in cross-border situations.

Ludger’s focus is on advising mid-cap financial sponsors in acquisition and exit situations, buy-and-build strategies and management participation programs. He uses his extensive international network to provide his clients with legal support for investments abroad.

Ludger is a founding partner of LARK.

After studying abroad in Boston and working for several years as a lawyer for a US law firm in New York, Ludger Schult worked for an international law firm, Milbank, in Munich. He then co-founded the law firm GLNS, where he significantly developed the private equity practice.

Numerous publications in the areas of corporate law and M&A, including Manager Liability in Germany (Verlag C.H. Beck, 2012, together with Gubitz and Nikoleyczik).

- FSN Capital on the acquisition of the Lobster Group, the Bäcker Görtz Group, ecovium and its acquisition of the international Mantis Group, among others

- EMERAM Capital on the acquisition of several companies forming the ace Group, the acquisition and exit of Matrix42 Group and its acquisition of EgoSecure and FastViewer, the acquisition of Frostkrone Group and its acquisition of Innovate Foods, Rite Stuff Foods, Varenne Gastronomie and PizWich, among others

- AFINUM on the acquisition of the Koenen Group, the acquisition of the synaforce Group and its buy-and-build concept; the acquisition of Fishing King, the exit of the Perfect Drive Sports Group and the previous acquisition of all4golf and its merger with Clubhouse Golf as well as the acquisition and the exit of FAST LTA, among others

- PARAGON on the acquisition and exit of chicco di caffè, the acquisition and exit of Gooodlive and the acquisition of the WEKA Group, among others

- TRILL IMPACT on the acquisition of karriere tutor GmbH, among others

- EGERIA on the acquisition of Meyer Menü and the Klafs Group, among others

- ARMIRA on the acquisition of the Scheu-Dental Group, among others

- Mercer on the acquisition of hkp group

- Smile Eyes Augenärzte on the acquisition by Trilantic Europe

- Motel a Miio on the investment by Maxburg Capital