Ingo Strauss
Partner
Düsseldorf
ingo.strauss@lw.com
+49.211.8828.4635
PRACTICES
- Entertainment, Sports & Media
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity
INDUSTRIES
- Entertainment, Sports & Media
EDUCATION
- Doctorate of Law, University of Cologne, 2005
- Second State Exam, Higher Regional Court, Cologne, 2005
- First State Exam, University of Cologne, 2002
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
PROFILE
Dr. Ingo Strauss, partner in the Düsseldorf office of Latham & Watkins, draws on more than 15 years of experience advising clients on cross-border and domestic M&A transactions, and corporate law matters.
Ingo advises German and international clients on M&A transactions, including public and private M&A, and private equity, as well as on corporate law and sports-related matters.
Leading legal publications, including JUVE and Chambers, rank him as a leading M&A lawyer, describing him as one of the most active transactional lawyers in Germany.
Ingo is a member of several associations, including the German Association for Corporate and Company Law (VGR).
EXPERIENCE
Ingo's representative experience includes advising:
Corporate M&A
- Bayer on various transactions, including:
- Sale of its majority stake in Chempark operator Currenta*
- Acquisition of US biopharmaceutical company AskBio*
- GEA on the carve-out and sale of compressor manufacturer GEA Bock*
- Groupe Le Duff on the acquisition of Kamps*
- Grünenthal on the acquisition of Adhesys Medical Group*
- Hochtief on various transactions, incl.:
- Carve-out and sale of its facility management business*
- Carve-out and sale of its offshore business*
- Carve-out and sale of its property management business*
- Körber AG on carve-out and sale of its grinding division*
- METRO on various transactions, including:
- Carve-out and sale of its majority stake in METRO China to Wumei*
- Implementation of IT partnership with Wipro*
- RWE and EON on its joint sale of their participations in Enovos S.A.*
- RWE and innogy on transactions in the energy sector*
- SK Innovation on its EV battery joint venture with Conti*
- SPIE on various transactions, including:
- Acquisition of Otto LSE
- Acquisition of a majority stake in ICG Group
- Acquisition of BridgingIT
- Acquisition of Dürr
- Acquisition of ROBUR Industry Services Group GmbH
- Acquisition of Osmo*
- Acquisition of Lück*
- ZF Friedrichshafen on various transactions, including:
- Carve-out and sale of its electronic interfaces business
- Carve-out and sale of its computer input devices business unit Cherry*
- Acquisition of the wind turbine business from Bosch Rexroth*
Private Equity
- Avedon Capital Partners on various transactions, including:
- Acquisition of Altendorf*
- Acquisition of Hebrock*
- Deutsche Beteiligungs AG on various transactions, including:
- Sale of Abbelen
- Acquisition of freiheit.com
- Sale of DNS:Net*
- Acquisition of congatec*
- Acquisition of duagon*
- Acquisition of Kraft & Bauer*
- Sale of R&M*
- Acquisition of mageba*
- EQT on the sale of Kabel BW to Liberty Global*
- Established/Ares on acquisition of Blaupunkt
- Paragon Partners on various transactions, including:
- de-SPAC transaction with SEDA (together with cunova GmbH)
- Acquisition of majority interest in KME Special
- Acquisition of Castolin Eutectic from Messer Group*
- Sale of NovumIP to Questel*
- Permira/GFKL on various transactions, including:
- Acquisition of Tesch Inkasso*
- Acquisition of IS*
- Ufenau Capital Partners on various transactions including the acquisition of Kruppert*
Sports
- Int. investors in connection with investments in Bundesliga clubs, in particular in relation to the 50+1 rule
- International investor in connection with the acquisition of a European football club
- International investor in connection with investment in professional sports league
- DFL on various matters, including:
- Investment of Jordanian investor in 1860 Munich*
- Joint venture with Deltatre on match data gathering and commercialization*
- Further transactional, corporate, and media right matters*
*Matter handled prior to joining Latham