Lara Stelmach is an associate in the Frankfurt office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Corporate Department.

Lara advises companies and financial investors primarily on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and general corporate law matters.

Prior to joining the firm, Lara was an associate for several years at another international law firm.

Lara’s experience includes advising:

  • Advent International on a global joint venture with LANXESS and joint acquisition of DSM Engineering Materials
  • Airbus Helicopters on the acquisition of ZF Luftfahrttechnik from ZF Friedrichshafen*
  • Apollo on the €1 billion investment in Deutsche Wohnen SE
  • Ardian on the acquisition of a majority stake in LIFTKET Group
  • Ascential on the acquisition of Sellics
  • Bain Capital on the acquisition of House of HR
  • Block.one on the sale of Decentric Europe to Northern Data*
  • BNP Paribas subsidiary Arval on the acquisition of the fleet management business of UniCredit Leasing Austria and a cooperation agreement with UniCredit Bank Austria*
  • Bosch on the sale of its security and communications technology product business
  • Bregal Unternehmerkapital on the:
    • Strategic partnership with Billbee
    • Sale of EA Elektro-Automatik
    • Acquisition of a majority stake in medavis
  • Commerzbank on equity trading and research cooperation with ODDO BHF*
  • EMZ Partners on the acquisition of a significant stake in H&Z Unternehmensberatung
  • Shareholders of Fischbach on the sale of a majority stake to Onex Partners
  • Godewind Immobilien AG on takeover and delisting offer by Covivio*
  • Hg on the:
    • Sale of MeinAuto’s divisions
    • Sale of F24
    • Investment in LucaNet
  • HomeToGo on business combination with Lakestar SPAC I (first European De-SPAC transaction)*
  • One Rock Capital Partners on the acquisition of Prefere Resins Group
  • Royal Reesink, a Triton portfolio company, on the sale of Pelzer Fördertechnik
  • SIG Combibloc on the acquisition of Scholle IPN
  • SYNLAB and majority shareholder Cinven, Novo Holdings and OTPP on IPO and initial listing at Frankfurt Stock Exchange*
  • Trinseo on the sale of Synthetic Rubber Business to Synthos*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • Rechtsanwältin (Germany)

Education

  • Second German State Exam, Higher Regional Court Frankfurt, 2019
  • First German State Exam, University of Frankfurt, 2016

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • French
  • German