Martina Farkas

Martina specialises in advising national and international companies and financial investors in the areas of mergers & acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures and restructurings as well as general corporate law.

Martina is the co-head of the Transportation sector group. 

She is also a member of Linklaters' German and international ESG working groups where a cross-functional team closely follows the current developments around ESG and provides comprehensive advice to clients.

In its 2021 Best Lawyers Ranking, German Handelsblatt lists Martina as “One to Watch” in the category Corporate Law.

Martina regularly lectures at the euroforum (Handelsblatt Media Group) on M&A contracts and is the Chairman of the Young Executives Network Northern Germany of the British Chamber of Commerce in Germany e.V. 

Work highlights

Transactions of significance where substantial involvement can be disclosed have included advising:

• Körber AG in connection with the acquisition of Siemens Logistics' mail and parcel business
• Cosco Shipping Ports Limited in connection with the acquisition of a strategic minority stake in HHLA Container Tollerort GmbH (CTT), a wholly owned subsidiary of HHLA
• Zeppelin on the acquisition of the Caterpillar distribution business in the Nordic region
• Linde in connection with the $90 billion merger with Praxair including a highly complex global carve-out of Linde business activities and their subsequent divestments
• Siemens Healthineers on the acquisition of Fast Track Diagnostics (FTD), a global supplier of diagnostics tests
• Progroup on the strategic acquisition of a heat and power plant for thermal utilisation of surrogate fuels from EnBW AG
• Triton on the sale of the of the special fertilizer manufacturer Compo Expert Business to the Chinese Xio Group
• Siemens AG on its €14.6bn joint bid with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for Alstom's energy business

Martina joined Linklaters in 2013 and was appointed Managing Associate in 2016. In 2022 she was elected Partner.

In 2015, she was on secondment at Continental AG. She is a member of the German Corporate Law Association (VGR) and of the AmCham Germany. 

Martina studied law at the College of Marin, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Université de Genève and Universitat de Barcelona. She also completed a Master of Laws (LL.M.) at King's College in London and the Maitrise en droit in Paris. 

She completed her legal traineeship at the Berlin Court of Appeal and in Tokyo. 

Martina speaks German, English, French and Croatian.

Martina regularly publishes articles in professional journals and handbooks. Recent publications include:

• Grüne Logistik: Zukunftsmusik oder Realität? Die Logistikbranche im ESG-getriebenen Wandel, in: Börsen-Zeitung, Beilage Wirtschaftskanzleien, 01. December 2022. 

• ESG in M&A transactions – an update, in: Der Betrieb, special edition ESG, 30 May 2022.
• Co-author: Krüger / Pofahl / Kring - Manual for Real Estate Transactions, 2022
• Co-author: Holzapfel / Pöllath / Bergjan / Engelhardt - M&A in law and practice, 16th edition, 2021
• The increasing importance of ESG in M&A transactions, in: Der Betrieb, special edition ESG, 17 May 2021