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

Burc 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.

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