Public Law/Environmental Law in M&A and IPOs
We advise on all regulatory, public law and environmental law aspects of mergers and acquisitions transactions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPOs). In the course of regulatory and public law due diligence processes and deal negotiations, various issues can be of significance, such as environmental liability and environmental compliance (including environmental contamination, environmental permits, emission control requirements, emissions trading system requirements), building law, planning law, subsidies and public grants, public procurement law, export control law, foreign investment control law, REACH and substance law, health and safety at work and regulatory requirements for certain products and activities. As specialists in the fields of regulatory, public law and environmental law, our lawyers have participated, for example, in the following transactions:
- Advising a publicly listed company on the spin-off and sale of a product division
- Advising an international energy supplier regarding the purchase of an offshore-wind farm on the German continental shelf
- Advising a medium-sized company on the acquisition of a food manufacturer
- Advising a wind farm and solar park operator regarding its IPO
- Advising a US-company on the acquisition of a manufacturer of household goods
- Advising a Taiwanese company on the acquisition of a machine manufacturer
- Advising a construction supply company on a capital increase and the issuance of a bond
- Advising a foreign real estate holding on the acquisition of a shopping center portfolio of operational centers and development projects
- Advising an international investment fund on the acquisition of a state owned real estate company
- Advising an investment fund on the acquisition of major buildings for residential and commercial use
- Advising an energy supplier on the divesture of its gas transmission grid to a consortium of public utility companies
- Advising a medical devices manufacturer on its IPO
- Advising a US-technology company on the acquisition of a product division of a German publicly listed company
- Advising a Chinese company on the strategic alliance with a German manufacturer of commercial vehicles
- Advising a foreign investment fund on the acquisition of a participation in a German component supplier for the car industry
- Advising a wholesale distributor on the planned divesture of its German sites
- Advising a company on the acquisition of a mining company
- Advising a commodity trading and mining company on the acquisition of petrol depots and participations in refineries
- Advising an investor on aspects of subsidized housing in connection with the acquisition of a real estate portfolio
- Advising a foreign investor on the legal framework of foreign investment control in Germany with regard to a contemplated takeover of a publicly listed German company