Overview
Julian is a tax partner in our Düsseldorf office with over 10 years of experience specialising in managing the complex tax issues of domestic and multinational corporate clients, banks and financial sponsors. His expertise includes all areas of tax law with a particular focus on tax structuring of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, corporate reorganisations, initial public offerings and joint ventures. He regularly advises clients on binding rulings requests and tax audits as well as on post-closing M&A disputes involving tax claims. Julian works with clients from a wide range of sectors, including automotive, chemicals, energy, industrials and financial services
Julian was named Tax Rising Star of the Year 2024 at the Legal 500 Germany Awards 2024 and has recently been recognised as a “next generation partner” by Legal 500.
Work Highlights
Representative experience includes advising:
- Covestro: on the acquisition of the Resins & Functional Materials business of Royal DSM
- Daimler: on the spin-off of a majority stake in Daimler Truck AG and the related listing of Daimler Truck Holding AG
- Deutsche Börse: on the proposed all-share merger of equals with London Stock Exchange Group
- E.ON: on its asset swap with RWE consisting of i.a. the acquisition of innogy SE and the sale of the entire renewables business of innogy and E.ON to RWE AG; on the disposal of parts of its heating electricity business to Lichtblick SE; on the acquisition of all shares in Klarsolar GmbH
- Fresenius: on the acquisition of a majority stake in mAbxience Holding S.L.; on the deconsolidation of Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA by way of a change of legal form into an AG
- FUNKE Mediengruppe: on various group restructurings and the acquisition of the regional newspapers “Hamburger Abendblatt“ and “Berliner Morgenpost“ as well as the programming guides and women`s magazines from Axel Springer SE
- HSBC: on the acquisition of the shares in HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG from LBBW and on the restructuring of its German business, including the transfer of the business to a German branch of HSBC Continental Europe
- Jakobus Stiftung: advising on the comprehensive reorganisation of the Aldi Nord group of companies (including the level of the Stiftungen)
- Porsche Automobil Holding: on the partial disposal of the shareholding in PTV Group to funds advised by Bridgepoint
- thyssenkrupp: on the disposal of the Brazilian steel mill tk CSA to Argentinian steelmaker Ternium; on the planned joint venture for its European flat steel operations with Tata Steel Europe and the internal restructuring to separate the business; on the planned division of the group into two independent companies thyssenkrupp Materials AG and thyssenkrupp Industrials AG; on the EUR 17.2bn disposal of its Elevator Technology business to a consortium consisting of Advent, Cinven and RAG-Stiftung, the internal restructuring to separate the business and the planned (but abandoned) IPO of the Elevator Technology business; on the IPO of thyssenkrupp nucera AG & Co. KGaA
- Vodafone: on the IPO of Vantage Towers AG; on the formation of a joint venture with GIP and KKR for the takeover of Vantage Towers AG, the takeover offer to the remaining Vantage Towers shareholders and the integration of Vantage Towers by domination and profit and loss pooling agreement; on the establishment of a joint venture for the deployment of fibre in Germany with Altice group
- Volkswagen: on the IPO of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG; on the disposal of the shares in listed Renk AG to funds advised by Triton
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