LAWYER PROFILE

Winfried Carli

Global 2026

Goodwin

Ranked in 1 practice area

Banking & Finance

Germany

9 years ranked

About

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Practice Areas

Carli’s practice focuses on domestic and cross‐border finance and restructuring matters, with a particular focus on leveraged finance. He represents national and international private equity firms, financial institutions, debt funds and companies on all types of debt transactions.

Personal

LLM 2000

New York University

(Fulbright Scholar)

1st German State Law Examination 1997

University of Munich

Chambers Review

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Chambers Global Guide

Banking & Finance - Germany

Band 1

Individual Editorial

Winfried Carli excels at advising private equity firms and portfolio companies as well as direct lenders on mid-cap acquisition financing and refinancing transactions. He offers expertise in both German and cross-border mandates, aided by his firm's international network.

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Strengths

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He can draw connections and solutions I have not thought of.
Banking & FinanceChambers Global Guide
He has very strong relationships with lenders and sponsors, knows exactly what points will be most relevant to his clients and is well versed in loads of sectors. He can jump into anything quickly.
Banking & FinanceChambers Global Guide
Winfried Carli has an excellent reputation in the market. He is extremely experienced, has very good market knowledge and sees a vast number of deals - more than anyone in Germany.
Banking & FinanceChambers Global Guide
I go to him for any situation and he gives a clear explanation of what we need, what will work and what won't. He gives not just pure legal knowledge but also practical and contextualised knowledge.
Banking & FinanceChambers Global Guide

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