Overview
Dr. Germar Enders focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity and general corporate law. Germar has extensive experience in advising strategic and financial investors as well as management teams on domestic, cross-border and multi-jurisdictional transactions, and on all aspects of corporate law, including corporate structurings.
Prior to joining McDermott, Germar worked at other leading international law firms in the field of corporate/M&A and as assistant professor at the Max-Planck-Institute and the University of Munich. During his legal clerkship, he trained in Cologne and New York. He regularly publishes articles on matters of corporate and civil law, including in legal reference books and commentaries.
Results
- Advising KSK Beteiligungs GmbH and a co-investor on the (indirect) takeover of Max Petek GmbH & Co KG, a market leader in the field of cleanroom technology
- Advising Gimv on an internal restructuring
- Advising Curevum GmbH on its disposal of Congiv GmbH, a specialist in engineering, development and testing services for complex IT infrastructures, e.g. for IoT/industry 4.0 solutions, to Robur Group
- Advising EMH Partners on their acquisition of a majority stake in AVANTGARDE group, an international group active in the area of brand experience with headquarters in Munich, Germany and several offices in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Great Britain, Dubai, China and Brazil from private equity investor Afinum and management of AVANTGARDE
- Advising Bilfinger SE on the sale of its European overhead line construction business in an auction process to EQOS, a portfolio company of private equity investor Triton
- Advising Penta Investments on its integration of copperING GmbH and copperING srl, portfolio companies of Ceterum Holding into Gehring group, a global automotive supplier held by Penta Investments
- Advising Gimv and certain individual shareholders, including CEO Armin Pohl, on their disposal of Mackevision group, a market leader in Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) with offices in Germany, the US, the UK, South Korea, China and Japan to Accenture
- Advising Gimv on its acquisition of WEMAS Group, a leading provider of certified passive mobile road safety equipment from Nord Holding, including on the implementation of a management participation program and the (subsequent) co-investment with Paragon Partners
- Advised the international management team of Ascensia Diabetes Care with regard to the implementation of a management participation program in the context of the EUR 1 billion acquisition of Bayer’s diabetes care operations by Japanese Panasonic Corporation and leading global investment firm KKR
- Advised Ionisos SAS, a French portfolio company of private equity house Ardian and a leading provider of sterilization services in France and Spain on its acquisition of LEONI Studer Hard GmbH from LEONi AG
- Advised a Swiss listed company in the context of establishing a joint-venture company under German law
- Advised ESO Capital in the context of several debt-investments
- Advised the majority shareholders of Medi-Globe group, a leading producer of medical devices focused on minimally invasive surgery in gastroenterology and urology on the disposal of Medi-Globe group to a consortium led by the UK private equity fund Duke Street
- Advised Honeywell in auction process on its disposal of RMG Messtechnik GmbH to Chinese strategic investor Energas in order to satisfy commitments made by Honeywell towards the European Commission in the context of the merger clearance of Honeywell’s USD 5.1 bn acquisition of Elster group
- Advised Honeywell on the acquisition of parts of Sigma-Aldrich‘s European business for solvents and inorganic used in laboratory applications; the disposal to Honeywell served the purpose of complying with certain antitrust commitments imposed by the European Commission in the context of the 13.1 bn takeover of Sigma-Aldrich by Merck
- Advised Bregal in the context of an auction process
- Advised a multinational, US based group on the intended acquisition of a German portfolio company from a European private equity house
- Advised Blackstone and Event Hotels on the acquisition of 29 business hotels in Germany and the Netherlands from the French Accor group (EUR 234 million)
- Advised Government of Singapore Investment Corporation on the intended acquisition of a participation in an international group, headquartered in Germany
- Advised Testing Machines, Inc, a portfolio company of Union Park Capital on its acquisition of the German/US group CMC-Kuhnke with headquarters in Germany
- Advised Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in its joint bid with Siemens AG for Alstom
- Advised the shareholders of lichtbasis Meissner-spahn GmbH on the disposal of of lichtbasis Meissner-spahn GmbH to Finatem, including management participation
- Advised Colliers International on the acquisition of a majority interest in AOS Group, one of Europe’s leading real estate consulting companies
