DLA Piper advises companies, including various German medium-sized companies, on planned IPOs, private placements, capital increases, share buyback programs and, most recently, increasingly on public takeovers. For international transactions with a US connection, such as SPAC projects, the group cooperates with its US colleagues in London. With practice head Roland Maaß, the practice also houses expertise in various ECM-adjacent areas, such as M&A, stock corporation law, corporate reorganisations and capital market compliance.
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Témoignages
Collectés indépendamment par l'équipe de recherche du Legal 500.
- 'Very competent, always solution-oriented and helpful.'
- 'Absolute commitment; allows me to understand very complex legal aspects of a matter immediately; available 24/7 and always trying; good background team of legal experts also in the US and UK for various country specific questions one may have as an international company.'
- 'Personal contact; 100% success rate in everything we have done together; humble and down-to-earth lawyers who have a very friendly advisory approach.'
- 'DLA's lawyers in this area have superior expertise and experience, are hands-on and solution-oriented and respond quickly without losing sight of accuracy.'
- 'Roland Maaß is great.'
Clients clés
- Aonic SB
- VARTA AG
- exceet Group SCA
- Montana Tech Components AG
- Voltabox
Points forts
- Advising gaming group Aonic on the issuance of its first secured Nordic Bonds for a total amount of €70 million.
- Advising VARTA AG on a capital increase from authorised capital with exclusion of subscription rights. The issue of 2.22 million new shares generated gross proceeds of around €51 million.
- Advising exceet on the admission of new shares to the regulated market (Prime Standard market segment) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The admission was based on a securities prospectus approved by the Luxembourg financial supervisory authority Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), which was notified to BaFin due to exceet's stock exchange listing in Germany.
Avocats
Responsable de la pratique
Roland Maaß
Autres avocats clés
Andreas Füchsel; Kerstin Schnabel