Practice Areas
Sonja Ruttmann is a partner in the Munich office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of its Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Restructuring and Reorganization, Private Equity and Capital Markets Practice Groups.
Sonja specializes in private and public M&A, corporate law and private equity and has advised on many complex domestic and international cross-border mergers and acquisitions including formation and dissolution of joint ventures and carve-out scenarios as well as private equity and venture capital transactions. She represents clients, public and private, in auctions, asset and share deals as well as mergers across a broad range of sectors, including in particular in the fields of automotive (including autonomous driving), technology and engineering, capital markets, energy and infrastructure, as well as digital security and cybersecurity.
She further advises in stock corporation and capital markets laws. Her work includes the advice of management and supervisory boards, also with regard to corporate governance issues. Another focus of her work is advising on foreign trade issues and investment control laws where she has advised various German, American and Chinese clients and guided them through the administrative process.
Work Highlights
Her experience includes advising:
- Bosch, inter alia in connection with
> the disposal of its worldwide automotive steering and transmission pump business to Fidelium Partners
> the acquisition of BSH from Siemens (€3B) and the dissolution of the corresponding joint venture
> the acquisition of ZF steering business from ZF and the dissolution of the corresponding joint venture
> the disposal of the global wind turbines and large gears by Bosch Rexroth to ZF
> the formation of the international joint venture in the field of autonomous driving with Mitsubishi, u-blox und Geo++
> the disposal of its worldwide “Around the Wheel” business to Stargate Capital
- Giesecke+Devrient on various transactions, inter alia on its acquisition of the payment and identity solutions business of Valid USA
- Dr. Barbara Sturm, a German molecular cosmetics brand, on its sale to Puig, a global premium beauty brand
- Stryder Corp., dba Handshake, in its acquisition of TalentSpace GmbH, developer of a virtual recruiting events platform
- Muehlhan AG on the sale of its European and U.S. business to One Equity Partners
- NetApp, a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, in its acquisition of Instaclustr, a US/Australia/German SaaS open source software company
- Platinum Equity Advisors on its US$5.25B acquisition of Solenis from BASF SE and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
- Astorg on the acquisition of hg medical from Nord Holding
- Stone Canyon Industries and its subsidiary BWAY on the US$2.3B acquisition of Mauser Group, a leading industrial packaging company, from Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.
- Stem, Inc. on its acquisition of Also Energy Holdings (including advice related to investment control)
- Dresser Utility Solutions on its acquisition of Itron’s Global Gas Regulator and European C&I Gas Metering Business.
