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.

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

Bar Qualification

  • Rechtsanwältin (Germany)

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