Overview
Carl is a partner in the firm’s German private capital practice. He advises private equity houses and financial sponsor clients on their M&A deals, strategic investments and joint ventures.
Carl also advises sponsors on the management of their existing portfolio companies, including on management investment plans, equity financings, liquidity events and add-on transactions.
Carl regularly works on complex cross-border transactions and has gained first-hand insights having spent six months as a secondee with a financial sponsor client.
Experience
Carl’s recent experience includes advising:
- GTCR: advising on
- the bidding process regarding the acquisition of GGW from hg
- the bidding process on the potential acquisition of STADA.
- Macquarie: advising on
- the sale of its leading Meter Asset Provider platform OnStream to Igneo Infrastructure Partners
- the sale of Macquarie’s Real Estate Fund Management Platform GLL Real Estate Partner
- the bidding process regarding a stake in EWE AG alongside Allianz Capital Partners
- Apax Partners: advising on
- the acquisition of Rodenstock
- the acquisition of neuraxpharm
- Hg Capital: advising on
- its investments in a leading real estate management network in Belgium and Germany.
- the acquisition of Kodex AI by hg’s portfolio company CUBE.
- Nordic Capital: advising on the acquisition of Swiss fund administrator 1741.
- Allianz Capital Partners: advising on
- the sale of a stake in radio tower operator ATC Europe to Commerz Real.
- the acquisition of a 18% stake in ATC Europe from American Tower
- its investment in Austrian fibre network company öGIG
- iCON Infrastructure: advising on its acquisition of Alliance Medical from Life Healthcare
- Montagu Private Equity: advising on various transactions, incl.:
- the acquisition of Multifonds from Temenos AG as part of a carve-out transaction,
- the acquisition of a majority stake in DQS Holding GmbH, a leading global provider of certification and business assurance services,
- its acquisition of Waystone and several add-on acquisitions
- its acquisition of Universal Investment, several add-on acquisitions in Germany, Luxembourg and Ireland, as well as several minority divestments, including on the sale of a substantial minority interest to CPPIB
- Bayer: advising on Apollo’s EUR 3bn hybrid equity investment in Bayer’s LARC business
- Altor: on the roll-out of its buy-and-build strategy in the HVAC sector in Germany
- IDG: on the intended acquisition of a majority stake in camera manufacturer Leica
- Ara Partners: on the investment in JET petrol stations alongside Stonepeak and Energy Equation Partners
- Digital Bridge: on the €1.5bn investment by GIC and MEAG in Vantage Data Centers’ EMEA data centre platform.
- Third Point, Coatue and Dragoneer: as shareholders of German neobank N26 on a restructuring of their latest investor shareholding
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