Dr. Anna Schwander

BC Partners on the initial public offering of 26,650,795 shares of Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA in total, corresponding to a total offer size of around EUR 600 million, and admission to trading in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Birkenstock Holding plc and L Catterton on the initial public offering of 32,258,064 ordinary shares of Birkenstock Holding plc and admission to trading at the New York Stock Exchange

Cinven on the public acquisition and subsequent delisting offer to the shareholders of SYNLAB AG

XXXLutz on the delisting offer for all outstanding shares of home24 SE

Oakley Capital on the extension of their investment in IU Group

Oakley Capital and other principal sellers on the sale of Contabo to KKR 

Alpine Investors and Ingenio on the acquisition of adviqo Group 

Brookfield Asset Management on the public takeover offer for alstria office REIT-AG

ADTRAN on the public exchange offer for ADVA Optical Networking and the subsequent dual listing 

Carlyle on the public takeover offer for Schaltbau Holding AG 

Tele Columbus on a capital increase with preemptive rights in the amount of EUR 475 million 

L Catterton on the acquisition of a majority stake in BIRKENSTOCK Group 

Tele Columbus on the public takeover offer from Kublai GmbH 

Bain Capital and Carlyle on the public takeover offer for OSRAM Licht AG

EG Group, a portfolio company of TDR Capital, in connection with the offering by EG Global Finance plc of EUR 300 million 3.625% senior secured notes due 2024, USD 750 million 6.750% senior secured notes due 2025 and EUR 670 million 4.375% senior secured notes due 2025

Bain Capital, Cinven and Nidda BondCo GmbH in connection with the offering of EUR 250 million 7 1/4% senior notes due 2025

Bain Capital and Cinven on the public delisting tender offer to the shareholders of STADA Arzneimittel AG

EP Global Commerce (EPGC) on the acquisition of stakes in Metro AG from Haniel and CECONOMY AG

Tele Columbus in connection with its offering of EUR 650 million 3.875% senior secured notes due 2025

Bain Capital, Black Diamond and Avedon Capital Partners on the secondary placement of shares in JOST Werke AG

Vestigo Capital Advisors LLP and its acquisition vehicle Brookline Real Estate S.à r.l. on the mandatory takeover offer to the shareholders of Accentro Real Estate AG

Bain Capital, Cinven and their acquisition vehicles Nidda Healthcare Holding AG and Nidda BondCo GmbH in connection with the offering of EUR 735 million 3½% senior secured notes due 2024 and EUR 340 million 5% senior notes due 2025 to finance their acquisition of shares in STADA Arzneimittel AG

Bain Capital, Black Diamond and Avedon Capital Partners on the IPO of JOST Werke AG

Bain Capital in its USD 3.2 billion carve-out acquisition and accompanying financing of Diversey Care

Senvion group in connection with its offering of EUR 400 million 3.875% senior secured notes due 2022 and an amendment and restatement of its EUR 950 million revolving credit and guarantee facilities agreement

Creat Group Corporation on the EUR 940 million public takeover of Biotest AG; to date one of the largest investments by a Chinese company in the Western health sector

Bain Capital and Cinven on their EUR 5.4 billion joint public takeover of the German pharmaceutical company STADA Arzneimittel AG; to date the largest private equity transaction ever realized in the German market

IPO Scout24 AG*

IPO Schaeffler AG*

Tele Columbus AG on capital increase*

IPO Tele Columbus AG*

IPO Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG*

IPO KION Group AG*

GEA Group on sale of Heat Exchangers (HX) business, preparation of high yield bond*

Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA on listing of RTL Group S.A. on Frankfurt Stock Exchange*

KION Group GmbH on several high yield bonds*

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG on several high yield bonds*

MPM Equity LLC on preparation of high yield bond of KraussMaffei to support the sales process*

KUKA AG on capital increase*

Kabel Deutschland AG on several high yield bonds*

* Experience prior to joining Kirkland

Hengeler Mueller, Munich and Düsseldorf, Germany

Bonelli Erede Pappalardo, Milan, Italy