Oliver Rosenberg

Oliver is a partner in our Düsseldorf office and, since 2022, Global Head of Tax. He also heads the German tax practice and is a member of the German Executive Team (GET). Oliver has specialized experience in cross-border tax structuring and planning, tax-orientated restructuring, corporate acquisitions and asset finance (in particular real property investments).

Work highlights

• Acerinox: advising on the acquisition of 100% of the shares in VDM Metals Holding GmbH from Falcon Metals B.V. and Lindsay Goldberg Vogel GmbH. 

• AECI: advising on the acquisition of the contract manufacturing business of Imperial Logistics International.
• BASF: advising on the sale of its construction chemicals business to the private equity firm Lone Star for a purchase price over €3bn.
• Bayer: advising on the Dual-Track proceedings (Spin-Off/ IPO) of the synthetic division of Bayer MaterialScience.
• Berwin: advising on the merger with Bryan Cave.
• Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores: advising on the merger of its container business with Hapag-Lloyd and subsequently on the initial public offering of Hapag-Lloyd.
• Deere & Company: advising on its US$5.2bn acquisition of the family-owned Wirtgen Group.
• DeWAG: advising on the sale of 11,500 residential units held by various Dutch and Luxembourg companies.
• a consortium of bidders: advising on various A-model projects (motorways A1, A5, A7, A94).
• Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein: advising on the participation in the sale of 94.9% of the shares in HSH Nordbank to a group of investors including companies / funds of JC Flowers and Cerberus European Investment.
• I Squared Capital: advising on the acquisition of 100% of the shares in TIP Trailer Services.
• Infosys: advising on the acquisition of Lodestone Holding AG.
• ITT: advising on the acquisition of the German Bornemann group in an auction process.
• LetterOne Groupe: advising on its US$21bn merger of the oil and gas businesses of LetterOne and BASF by combining DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG with Wintershall Holding GmbH to create a leading European oil and gas company.
• LG Chemicals: advising on the planned acquisition of the worldwide nylon business of the Belgian Solvay Group.

Oliver Rosenberg has worked as a lawyer specialising in real estate tax law since 1997. He worked for the predecessor firm Oppenhoff & Rädler from 1998 and was appointed partner at Linklaters in 2005.

Oliver Rosenberg studied law at the Free University of Berlin. 

He speaks German and English.