EXPERIENCE

Stephan’s representative experience includes advising:

Private Equity

• Apax on its contemplated acquisition of synlab from BC Partners
• Apera Asset Management on the financing of the acquisition of Factor Eleven GmbH by Armira Investment Holding
• Ardian on acquiring Competence Call Center from Silverfleet Capital
• Chequers Capital on its:
  • Acquisition of Nayak-LM
  • Sale of Wörner to DCC
  • Acquisition of 7days (together with Paragon Partners)
  • Acquisition of MK-Kliniken AG’s care home business and several add-on acquisitions
• Deutsche Beteiligungs AG on the:
  • Acquisition of Northern Access
  • Sale of Formel D to 3i
  • Merger of duagon Holding AG with MEN Mikro Elektronik
  • Acquisition of STG Braunsberg
  • Investment in freiheit.com
• DPE Deutsche Private Equity on:
  • The €708 million DPE Continuation Fund I, in the largest German GP-led secondary in history
  • the acquisition of valantic
• EMZ Partners on:
  • The acquisition of Transform8
  • Its acquisition of a significant stake in H&Z Unternehmensberatung
  • Its sale of their shareholding in insurance broker ASSEPRO
  • The acquisition of WEKA Group’s Education Division
  • Its acquisition of a majority stake in Aspire Education Group
  • Its majority investment in Hermann Pipersberg
  • Its investment in Ingentis
• Shareholders of Fischbach on the sale of a majority stake to Onex Partners
• FSN Capital on acquiring Altium’s TASKING business unit
• Oakley Capital on a continuation fund transaction to extend its partnership with IU Group
• PAI Partners on its joint venture with Nestlé, a Switzerland-based multinational food and drink processing conglomerate, in which Nestlé will transfer its European frozen pizza business to the JV
• Triton on the:
  • Acquisition of Siemens Energy’s high-voltage component business, Trench
  • Block purchase from Volkswagen AG and €740 million public takeover offer for RENK AG shares and the subsequent taking private
  • Merger squeeze-out of RENK AG minority shareholders
  • Acquisition of the pneumatic business (Aventics) of Bosch Rexroth AG* and its sale to Emerson Electric Co.
  • Sale of Wittur to Bain Capital*
  • Acquisition of Alstom’s auxiliary equipment business*

Corporate M&A

• B/E Aerospace on the spin-off of its consumables management segment businesses to KLX*
• Barkawi on the sale of Barkawi Management Consultants to Genpact
• BayWa AG on:
  • EIP’s €530 million investment in BayWa r.e. AG
  • Its €500 million green bond offering
  • Its acquisition of Evergrain KG*
• Congatec on acquiring Real-Time Systems
• Deutsche Bank and Orchard Global Asset Management on the sale of HIT Holzindustrie Torgau to Mercer International
• Euroassekuranz Versicherungsmakler AG and its shareholder on entering a strategic partnership of Euroassekuranz with Hyperion Insurance Group
• Heytex Bramsche GmbH on the acquisition of TenCate
• Marcolin on the acquisition of ic! berlin
• OSRAM Licht AG on the spin-off and sale of its lighting business, Ledvance, to a Chinese consortium comprising IDG, MLS, and Yiwu
• Siemens Healthineers on its US$16.4 billion public takeover offer for Varian
• Siemens AG on the:
  • US$10 billion acquisition of Altair Engineering
  • US$1.575 billion acquisition of data management company Brightly Software
  • Intended €15 billion merger of its Mobility business with Alstom
  • Merger of its wind power business with Gamesa*
• TASKING, a FSN Capital portfolio company, on acquiring iSYSTEM
• Xeraya Capital on the sale of invendo medical GmbH to Ambu A/S

Infrastructure

• Deutsche Infrastruktur und Netzgesellschaft (DING) on its acquisitions of:
  • Bergert 
  • Leinberger Bau
  • Triopt
  • IMD
  • Iska Schön
• EQT/OMERS on the acquisition of Deutsche Glasfaser Group from KKR
• First Sentier Investors on the sale of Ferngas to VKB
• Vitronet on its acquisitions of:
  • Horstmann
  • Lütkemeier

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham