Anastasia Dressler
Associate
Frankfurt
anastasia.dressler@lw.com
+49.69.6062.6577
PRACTICES
- Banking
- Private Equity Finance
- Restructuring & Special Situations
INDUSTRIES
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Financial Institutions
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
EDUCATION
- Second German State Exam, District Court, Darmstadt, 2017
- First German State Exam, Goethe University, Frankfurt, 2015
- Master in Management, Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University, 2008
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
- English
- German
- Russian
- Ukrainian
PROFILE
Anastasia Dressler is an associate in the Finance Department in the Frankfurt office.
She advises German and international clients on domestic and cross-border transactions, including leveraged buy-outs, strategic acquisitions, restructurings, corporate loans, and infrastructure financings under German law, with an emphasis on forward-looking leveraged buy-outs and corporate finance transactions with complex and innovative structures such as bank/bond.
Prior to joining Latham, Anastasia worked as an associate in another international law firm in its banking and finance department for four years.
EXPERIENCE
Anastasia’s experience includes advising:
- Bank consortium on a €203 million super-senior credit facility for the refinancing of Takko Group
- Kelvion Group on €235 million super senior revolving credit and guarantee facilities to refinance outstanding notes
- Wolfspeed, Inc. on an up to US$2 billion senior secured note financing with a group of private investors
- Cheplapharm on the acquisition of Zyprexa and bridge financing
- A worldwide leading pharmaceutical company on the German law aspects of the group financing through credit agreements and bonds*
- Minimax Viking on the maturity extension of its existing syndicated loan facility (amend-and-extend)
- Lenders on the financing of the acquisition of AdEx Beratungs GmbH & Co. KG by Capvis
- Perusa on the sale of SCHROTH SAFETY PRODUCTS
- SPIE on the acquisition of Robur Industry Service Group
- Hg on the:
- Sale of Transporeon
- Acquisition financing of LucaNet
- vitronet, a portfolio company of DBAG, on its add-on acquisition financings and its subsequent refinancing*
- J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley on the German law aspects of the public takeover of Qiagen by Thermofisher Scientific*
- UniCredit on the first international syndicated financing of the Nemetschek Group
- Porsche on its €2.5 billion sustainability-linked syndicated financing
- Commerzbank on a syndicated loan for the THIMM group*
- EWE AG on a syndicated financing
- adesso SE on an ESG-linked syndicated financing
- Deutsche Apotheker- und Ärztebank on the financing of Dr. Güdner Group
- Royal Bank of Canada on an asset-based financing for Bombardier
- Wells Fargo Bank on an asset-based financing for Emerald Debt Merger Sub L.L.C. (managed by Blackstone)
- The committee of lenders on the comprehensive recapitalization of Flint Group
- Steinhoff on their extensive restructuring, in particular the restructuring of their outstanding loan commitments consisting of syndicated loans and promissory note loans as well as the subsequent insolvency proceedings*
- Alcentra on the financing and subsequent refinancing of the Arwe group*
- Swiss Life Asset Management AG along with:
- Vauban Infrastructure Partners on the platform financing of Wascosa and Aves One group
- Gelsenwasser AG on the platform financing of Infrareal
- A bank syndicate led by Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) on the extensive financial restructuring of the PPP of the Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH)*
- A European investment bank on the financing of a fleet of trains for the Lot 1 (Elbe-Spree) train network through the Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH (ODEG), a company of the NETINERA group*
- A syndicate of six banks on the PPP financing of Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, the largest PPP financing in this sector in Germany with a total investment amount of €520 million*
*Matter handled prior to joining the firm