Overview
Krasen Krastev specializes in providing corporate law advice to financial investors, companies and company founders (including start-ups) on national and international M&A transactions and corporate restructurings, including buy-outs, financing rounds, carve-outs and transformations, as well as on general corporate and stock corporation law issues.
He started his legal career at an international law firm in 2014 and most recently worked there as Managing Associate.
Results
Krasen advised:
- Main Capital Partners on the Acquisition of SoftProject
- Westenergie AG on the bundling of municipal utility shares as part of the Rhineland cooperation with RheinEnergie AG.*
- Traditional family office on the sale of Progas to DCC Energy.*
- Börse Stuttgart Group on the expansion of the strategic partnership with Axel Springer and the SBI Group.*
- ELEMENT Insurance AG on a Series B financing round of EUR 21.4 million.*
- E.ON on the acquisition of innogy SE and on the sale of the heating power business to LichtBlick as well as on other extensive restructurings and transactions.*
- UBS Europe on the sale of its Spanish wealth management business to Singular Bank.*
- Deutsche Bank/ Deutsche Oppenheim Family Office (formerly Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie.) on the sale of closed-end real estate funds and on various corporate law issues.*
- Continental on the establishment of the joint venture “OSRAM CONTINENTAL” with OSRAM.*
- Genting Hong Kong on the acquisition of Lloyd Werft in Bremerhaven and on the acquisition of Nordic Yards shipyards in Stralsund, Warnemünde and Wismar.*
*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.
Recognitions
- Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers™, “Ones to Watch” in Germany: Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2022-1015
- Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers™, Germany: Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2023
Credentials
Education
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Second State Exam, 2013
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, First State Exam, 2011
University Trier, 2006
Admissions
Germany
Languages
German
English
Bulgarian
