Burc Hesse
Partner
Frankfurt / Munich
burc.hesse@lw.com
PRACTICES
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity
INDUSTRIES
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
EDUCATION
- LL.M., Westfälische Wilhelms-University, 2004
- Second German State Exam, Higher Regional Court Frankfurt, 2000
- First German State Exam, University of Bonn, 1996
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
PROFILE
Burc Hesse is Office Managing Partner of Latham & Watkins in Germany. He advises financial investors, focusing in particular on complex cross-border leveraged buyouts. He counsels private equity investors and their portfolio companies, both on the buy-side and the sell-side, on M&A transactions, including:
- Cross-border and domestic transactions
- LBOs/MBOs/MBIs
- Minority investments
- Co-investments
- Share and asset deals
Burc draws on more than 20 years of experience with private equity, through all phases of economic cycles. Leading legal publications including JUVE, Chambers, and IFLR regularly rank him highly, describing him as “an absolute dealmaker” and a skilled negotiator.
EXPERIENCE
Burc’s representative transactions include:
- Allianz Capital Partners on several transactions, including the:
- Creation of a joint venture with Telefónica
- Sale of Selecta Group
- Sale of shares in Scandlines Group*
- Antin Infrastructure Partners on the:
- Acquisition of a majority stake in Blue Elephant Energy AG
- Sale of its majority stake in amedes Group
- Ardian on the:
- Acquisition of a majority stake in LIFTKET Group
- Acquisition of Swissbit Holding AG and its subsidiaries
- Acquisition of the Competence Call Center Group (CCC) from Silverfleet
- Sale of Competence Call Center Group (CCC) to TELUS International
- Ardian/Swissbit on the acquisition of Hyperstone
- Bregal Unternehmerkapital on the sale of ATP Group
- Brookfield on the acquisition of a majority stake in Schoeller Allibert Group B.V.
- Cathay Capital on the:
- Acquisition of a significant minority stake in SNOCKS
- Acquisition and sale of a majority stake in the automotive supplier E.WINKEMANN
- Chequers Capital on several transactions, including the:
- Acquisition of Nayak-LM
- Sale of Wörner Group to DCC
- Acquisition of workwear specialist 7days
- Acquisition and sale of Cordenka Group
- Acquisition of retirement homes and rehabilitation homes from MK-Kliniken AG
- Acquisition of Wörner Group
- Acquisition and sale of Deutsche Fachpflege Gruppe, Metabo, and Silvercare Group
- DPE Deutsche Private Equity:
- On the €708 million DPE Continuation Fund I
- On the acquisition of a majority stake in valantic Group
- And Maxburg Capital Partners on the sale of PharmaZell GmbH
- Elad Gil on Series C financing of Helsing
- EMZ Partners on the:
- Sale of Simon Hegele to Nippon Express Holdings (together with further stakeholders)
- Acquisition of Transform8
- Acquisition of a significant stake in H&Z Unternehmensberatung
- Sale of their stake in Assepro AG to The Ardonagh Group
- Acquisition of WEKA Group’s Education Division
- Acquisition of a majority stake in Aspire Education Group
- Acquisition of a minority stake in Wishcard
- Majority investment in Hermann Pipersberg
- Investment in Simon Hegele
- Acquisition of a significant minority participation in celebrate company
- Acquisition of a majority stake in ASSEPRO
- Participation in HRworks
- Participation in Ankerkraut GmbH
- Equistone on the:
- Sale of their shareholdings in Sport Group (together with other shareholders)
- Acquisition of a majority stake in Plutona Acquisition AG
- Sale of Oikos Group to Goldman Sachs
- Acquisition of a majority stake in RENA Group
- HANNOVER Finanz and Hans-Werner Mumm on the sale of their shares in ATEC
- Inflexion on the acquisition of Finanzen.net from Axel Springer
- Lindsay Goldberg on the acquisition of Bilcare Research Group
- Marcolin on the acquisition of ic! berlin
- Oakley Capital on a continuation fund transaction to extend its partnership with IU Group
- OneTrust on the acquisition of Planetly
- PAI Partners on a joint venture with Nestlé
- Partners Group on the:
- Sale of Hofmann Menü Group to Compass Group Deutschland GmbH
- Acquisition of a majority stake in Cloudflight
- Acquisition of Schleich from Ardian
- Acquisition of Hofmann Menü Group from Gilde*
- Perusa on the acquisition of the majority stake in Schroth Safety Products
- Silverfleet Capital Partners on a number of intended and completed transactions, including the:
- Acquisition of ec4u and BULPROS
- Acquisition of Prefere Resins
- TA Associates on the:
- Acquisition of a minority stake in MRH Trowe
- Investment in Hornetsecurity
- Strategic growth investment in Adcubum and tech11
- Merger of Chaos and Enscape
- The Carlyle Group on several transactions, including the sale of exocad Global Holdings GmbH to Align Technology
- Unsere Grüne Glasfaser on the acquisition of Infrafibre Germany
*Matter handled prior to joining Latham