Overview
Renate Prinz focusses her practice on corporate law, national and international mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate reorganizations. She also advises at the interface with financial regulatory aspects, especially in connection with corporate transactions and/or licensing issues.
Renate is experienced in advising national and foreign investment companies, credit and financial services institutions on all aspects of German and European financial supervisory law.
She furthermore has extensive experience in acting for clients in the industrial, retail and public sectors.
Renate publishes in corporate and financial supervisory law on a regular basis.
Prior to joining McDermott, she worked at another leading international law firm in the fields of corporate/M&A and financial regulatory.
Results
- Advised a DAX40 company on financial regulatory matters (PSD2)
- Advised giropay on financial regulatory matters in connection with the sale of giropay to paydirekt
- Advised GALERIA Karstadt Kaufhof on corporate legal issues in the protective shielding procedure
- Advised GALERIA Kaufhof GmbH and Karstadt Warenhaus GmbH in its merger (today: GALERIA Karstadt Kaufhof GmbH)
- Advised on sale of a company producing special industrial products for the aerospace industry
- Advised Deutsche Börse Group in setting up a partnership program for clients of the group’s clearing business*
- Advised City of Hamburg and State of Schleswig-Holstein on the stabilization and restructuring of HSH Nordbank AG and in particular, the transfer of a ship loan portfolio to HSH Portfolio Management AöR as well as on the later sale of HSH Nordbank AG to a group of Financial Investors*
- Advised Erste Abwicklungsanstalt AöR on winding up all assets of former WestLB AG, in particular on the sale of Westdeutsche Immobilienbank AG to Aareal Bank AG and the prior extensive restructuring as well as on the sale of WestFonds Immobilien-Anlagegesellschaft to HCI Capital AG (now Ernst Russ AG) on both financial supervisory law and corporate law issues*
- Advised international credit institutions on Brexit related matters, in particular regarding German anti-money laundering law*
- Advising further public sector banks, in particular on transactions and conversions*
General corporate law advice and support in international transactions of financial investors and clients from the manufacturing industry*
*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott
Community
- Frauen in die Aufsichtsräte (FidAR) e.V.
- German Association of Female Lawyers
- Working Moms Düsseldorf e.V. (Chairwoman)
Credentials
Education
Higher Regional Court Cologne, Second State Exam, 2012
University of Münster, First State Exam, 2009
University of Münster, FFA, French Law, 2006
Admissions
Germany
Languages
German
English
French
