Christian is a corporate/M&A partner in our Düsseldorf office. He heads our German Corporate Practice and co-heads our international Private Equity Cross-Border Group.
Christian's expertise extends to a wide range of complex cross-border (PE) transactions. He advises on acquisitions, auctions, divestitures and exits, management participations, joint ventures and consortia, carve-outs, post-acquisition integrations, and corporate restructurings. His clients, including funds, financial investors and institutions, asset managers, and large corporations, benefit from his in-depth sector knowledge in the TMT, banking, financial services, and infrastructure industries.
Christian is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and covers his clients' transactions in a Latin American context.
Recent work includes:
- Advising Minlay, a portfolio company of Adagia Partners, on add-on acquisitions
- Advising Avedon Capital Partners on the acquisition of DMS Group, a service provider in the energy industry
- Advising Waterland Private Equity on the acquisition of YieldKit (now mrge), a platform specializing in commerce advertising, as well as add-on acquisitions, including Digidip and Shopping24
- Advising Waterland Private Equity on the acquisition of LionsHome, a product discovery platform in the home & living sector, and add-on acquisitions
- Advising EQOM, a portfolio company of Waterland Private Equity, on the acquisition of Sonoma Internet GmbH, operator of the online shop Amorelie from Pro7Sat1
- Advising Global Equestrian Group, a portfolio company of Waterland Private Equity, on its partnership with Swedish Olympic dressage rider Patrik Kittel
- Advising Brookfield Asset Management on the acquisition of a majority stake in Thermondo GmbH, a company operating in the heating sector, an equity-based management participation program, and a virtual stock option program
- Advising BlackRock on its €60m investment in Scalable Capital's Series C investment round as well as on further financing rounds D, E, and F
- Advising Gilde Equity Management / Actief on the acquisition of several temporary staffing companies in Germany and Austria (ISU, Timecraft, AB Zeitpersonal, Jobmade)
- Advising Aperam on the intended acquisition of VDM Metals Group from US Private Equity investor Lindsay Goldberg for €580m
- Advising Smart Parking, a listed Australian digital car park management and parking technologies company, on the acquisition of ParkInnovation
- Advising Düsseldorf International Airport on (i) the restructuring and partial divestiture of the regional airport of Mönchengladbach, (ii) the repatriation of off-balance sheet SPVs and real estate portfolios following the insolvency of AirBerlin, (iii) the restructuring of the jet fuel terminal as well as (iv) the establishment of a Joint Ventures the partial divestiture of its cargo business to Swissport
