Sibylle Münch
Partner
Frankfurt
sibylle.muench@lw.com
+49.69.6062.6571
PRACTICES
- Banking
INDUSTRIES
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Financial Institutions
EDUCATION
- Second State Exam, Higher Regional Court, Düsseldorf,
- First State Exam, University of Wuerzburg,
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
- English
- German
PROFILE
Sibylle Münch, a finance partner, advises German and international financial institutions, private equity funds, and companies in a wide range of industries on complex national and cross-border financings.
Sibylle provides strategic advice to efficiently execute transactions, which are often pioneering and innovative in the market. Specifically, she works with clients on:
- Leveraged buyouts
- Strategic acquisitions
- Public-to-private transactions
- Unitranche financing (with senior/super senior structures)
- General corporate lending (including Schuldschein)
- Financing advise in relation to restructuring scenarios
She draws on experience with all types of products and financings to provide a strategic view on the issues and advantages of each type of structure.
EXPERIENCE
Sibylle’s experience includes advising:
Private Equity Transactions
- Ares Management on the on refinancing and recapitalization of Zytomics
- Bregal on multiple transactions, including the:
- ACTICO acquisition financing
- All4Golf acquisition financing
- Deutsche Apotheker- und Ärztebank on the financing of Waterland’s acquisition of JV Hansefit
- Goldman Sachs on the refinancing of Schur Flexibles Group
- Goldman, Berenberg, and Commerzbank on the financing of the acquisition of Cartonplast
- HayFin on the financing of the acquisition of Dantherm by Deutsche Beteiligungs AG
- Hg on multiple transactions, including the:
- Sale of F24
- Acquisition of a majority stake in F24
- MediFox acquisition financing
- Financing agreements for the acquisition of Mobility Concept and advice on the financing of an add-on acquisition
- MediFox on the financing of the acquisition of DAN Produkte and Comfuture
Corporate Loans
- Bank consortium on new €750 million credit line for Sixt
- Bank consortium on the:
- Maturity extension of the €2.7 billion revolving credit facilities for TUI (€1.65 billion by the banks and €1.05 billion by KfW)
- Provision of credit lines of €1.8 billion and €1.2 billion for TUI by KfW and a credit line of €200 million by KfW and other banks
- Extension of existing revolving credit facilities totaling €4.7 billion for TUI
- Bank consortium on €2 billion Credit Facility for Fresenius
- Bank consortium on €2 billion Credit Facility for Fresenius Medical Care
- Bank consortium on the refinancing of MAHLE
- Bank consortium on the €2 billion dual-currency ESG-linked revolving credit facility for Henkel
- Banks and institutional infrastructure investors on the financing of Quartz Healthcare
- Deutsche Apotheker- und Ärztebank on the:
- KfW-funded financing for the Noventi Group
- Financing of the Noventi Group (including a syndicated loan and a Schuldschein)
- Syndicated loan for ARZ Haan
- Deutsche Bank on Schuldschein for Supernova Invest GmbH
- LBBW und UniCredit on the Herrenknecht financing
- Lenders on the financing in connection with the acquisition of the Thermal Commercial Vehicles Division from Valeo
- National Bank of Greece/European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on bond loan provided to NBG Pangaea REIC (now Prodea Real Estate Investments Company Société Anonyme)
- Porsche on its €2.5 billion sustainability-linked syndicated financing
Financial Restructurings
- Bank consortium on the refinancing of the Benteler Group within its restructuring
- Bank consortium on the refinancing of the Borgers Group within its restructuring
- Bank consortium on the restructuring of Tom Tailor
- Bank consortium of STEAG's parent company on restructuring of the group with focus to the coal phase-out