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Dr. Thomas Lappe

Vitesco Technologies in the sale of all shares in Vitesco Technologies Italy S.r.l. to Punch Group
Microsoft in the acquisition of all shares in Kinvolk GmbH
RWE AG in its sale of Georgia Biomass Holding LLC
Tokyo Century Corporation in the acquisition of shares in Volocopter GmbH during the company’s Series-D financing round
Fortune 500 automotive corporation in the proposed multi billion euros acquisition of a global automotive business headquartered in Germany
Minebea Mitsumi in the acquisition of Mast Kunststoffe GmbH & Co. KG
Bidding consortium in the proposed acquisition of Toll Collect GmbH from the Federal Republic of Germany
VTG AG in its Euro 780 million acquisition of Nacco Group
Continental AG in various cross-border M&A transactions
OpenSynergy GmbH in its trade sale to Panasonic
Listed real estate company in the structuring and implementation of a joint venture with tracking stock
Microsoft in the acquisition of 6Wunderkinder GmbH from, among others, Sequoia Capital, Earlybird, and Atomico
VTG AG in a pan-European joint venture with Kühne + Nagel merging the rail logistics activities
OYSTAR Holding GmbH and funds advised by Odewald & Compagnie in the sale of OYSTAR North America Inc. to Coesia S.p.a.
Deutsche Wohnen AG in the acquisition of a 5,000 unit residential and commercial portfolio and in the acquisition of a 1,900 unit residential portfolio
Zumiez Inc. in the acquisition of the Austrian Blue Tomato group
Microsoft in the acquisition of the crash analytics and beta distribution service HockeyApp and in the sale of the European comparison shopping platform Ciao to LeGuide.com
Continental AG in the sale of its worldwide public transport solution business to Trapeze
VTG AG in the acquisition of GRAAFF’s wagon construction business and in its acquisition of the Railcraft group in Northeastern Europe
BancTec in the acquisition of Beta Systems Software AG's global Enterprise Content Management (ECM) business
Russian investor in buying shares in K+S AG (stake building)
Funds advised by Strategic Value Partners in the acquisition of the office and commercial building ”Q207“ in Berlin’s Friedrichstraße
Mondi AG in various M&A transactions including in the acquisition of the bags and kraft paper business of Graphic Packaging International Inc. and in the acquisition of Schleipen & Erkens AG
U.S. private equity firm in its public to private bid for a German health care company
La Seda de Barcelona in the German aspects of the acquisition of the Amcor Pet packaging business
Bilfinger Berger AG in its public takeover of Rheinhold & Mahla AG (including the subsequent squeeze-out of the minority shareholders) and in its acquisition of Babcock Borsig Service GmbH from Deutsche Beteiligungs AG
Royal Dutch Shell in the formation of its solar energy joint venture with Saint-Gobain
TUI AG in its sale of VTG AG to funds advised by WL Ross & Co. LLC and in its disposal of Lehnkering GmbH to funds advised by Triton Managers Ltd.
Soros Private Equity Partners in its acquisition of the Bayer/Degussa polymer latex business
Petro-Canada in the German aspects of its acquisition of the Veba upstream oil assets
Preussag AG in the sale of Minimax GmbH to funds advised by Barclays Private Equity GmbH
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