Burc Hesse is Office Managing Partner of Latham & Watkins in Germany. He advises financial investors, focusing in particular on complex cross-border leveraged buyouts. He counsels private equity investors and their portfolio companies, both on the buy-side and the sell-side, on M&A transactions, including:

  • Cross-border and domestic transactions 
  • LBOs/MBOs/MBIs 
  • Minority investments 
  • Co-investments
  • Share and asset deals

Mr. Hesse draws on more than 20 years of experience with private equity, through all phases of economic cycles. Leading legal publications including JUVE, Chambers, and IFLR regularly rank him highly, describing him as “an absolute dealmaker” and a skilled negotiator.

Mr. Hesse’s representative transactions include:

  • Allianz Capital Partners on several transactions, including the:
    • Sale of Selecta Group 
    • Sale of shares in Scandlines Group*
  • Antin Infrastructure Partners on the acquisition of a majority stake in amedes Holding AG from General Atlantic
  • Ardian on the:
    • Acquisition of a majority stake in LIFTKET Group 
    • Acquisition of the Competence Call Center Group (CCC) from Silverfleet
    • Sale of Competence Call Center Group (CCC) to TELUS International
  • Brookfield on the acquisition of a majority stake in Schoeller Allibert Group B.V.
  • Cathay Capital on the acquisition of a majority stake in the automotive supplier E.WINKEMANN from Equistone
  • Chequers Capital on several transactions, including the: 
    • Acquisition of Nayak-LM
    • Acquisition and sale of Cordenka Group
    • Acquisition of retirement homes and rehabilitation homes from MK-Kliniken AG
    • Acquisition of Wörner Group
    • Acquisition and sale of Deutsche Fachpflege Gruppe, Metabo, and Silvercare Group
  • DPE Deutsche Private Equity on €708 Million DPE Continuation Fund I
  • EMZ Partners on the:
    • Acquisition of Transform8
    • Acquisition of a significant stake in H&Z Unternehmensberatung 
    • Sale of their stake in Assepro AG to The Ardonagh Group
    • Acquisition of WEKA Group’s Education Division
    • Acquisition of a majority stake in Aspire Education Group
    • Acquisition of a minority stake in Wishcard
  • Equistone on the:
    • Sale of their shareholdings in Sport Group (together with other shareholders)
    • Acquisition of a majority stake in Plutona Acquisition AG
    • Acquisition of a majority stake in RENA Group
  • HANNOVER Finanz and Hans-Werner Mumm on the sale of their shares in ATEC
  • Lindsay Goldberg on the acquisition of Bilcare Research Group
  • Marcolin on the acquisition of ic! berlin
  • Oakley Capital on a continuation fund transaction to extend its partnership with IU Group 
  • PAI Partners on a joint venture with Nestlé 
  • Partners Group on the:
    • Acquisition of Hofmann- Menüue Group from Gilde* 
    • Acquisition of Schleich from Ardian
    • Acquisition of Cloudflight
  • Sale of Hofmann Menü Group to Compass Group Deutschland GmbH
  • TA Associates on 
    • Its acquisition of a minority stake in MRH Trowe 
    • Its investment in Hornetsecurity

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham 

Bar Qualification

  • Rechtsanwalt (Germany)

Education

  • LL.M., Westfälische Wilhelms-University, 2004
  • Second German State Exam, Higher Regional Court Frankfurt, 2000
  • First German State Exam, University of Bonn, 1996