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Thilo Zimmermann

Counsel, Frankfurt

Overview

Professional experience

Education and qualifications

Published works

Overview

Specialised experience in advising clients on cross-border M&A transactions, private equity transactions and corporate law.

Work highlights

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

  • Vodafone: advising on the strategic partnership with GIP and KKR for Vantage Towers.
  • Schaeffler AG: advising on the acquisition of Ewellix Group from an affiliate of Triton Fund V.
  • GlobalWafers: advising on the public takeover offer for Siltronic AG.
  • McKesson: advising on the sale of part of its European businesses to PHOENIX groupand the sale of a number of other national businesses to different purchasers.
  • Worldline: advising on the contribution of its payment services business in Germany and Austria to PAYONE as well as the sale of PAYONE Switzerland to Worldline.
  • The German Federal States of Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein: advising on the sale and related privatisation of HSH Nordbank.

Professional experience

Thilo has worked for Linklaters since 2010 and was appointed Counsel in 2020.

Education and qualifications

Thilo made a vocational training at Deutsche Bank. He studied law at Bucerius Law School Hamburg and at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.

He speaks German and English.

Published works

  • “Payment of fines imposed on executive board members”, Rönnau/Samson (Publisher), Wirtschaftsstrafrecht aus der Sicht der Strafverteidigung (White Collar Crimes from a Defense Lawyers Perspective), Carl Heymanns, Cologne 2003