Patrick Cichy

Partner Corporate and M&A

excellent content, strong client focus

Client, JUVE Handbook 2018/2019

Primary practice

Corporate and M&A

29/09/2021 Patrick Cichy | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer About Patrick Cichy

Patrick is a partner in our global transaction practice.

Since joining the firm, he has worked across many industries with a particular focus on financial institutions.

Patrick is often recommended for financial institutions and corporate/M&A advice and has built long-term relationships with clients for whom he has acted.

He is very comfortable with complex, high-profile transactions. His MBA enables him to focus on and add value to the commercial aspects of each deal, while his nine-month secondment to Deutsche ’s M&A department in New York and his long-term advice in particular for Commercial Bank mean Patrick understands the workings of large financial institutions. He also has good knowledge of the renewable energy and infrastructure/transport sectors.

Patrick is our lead country partner for the Nordics, the author of various publications and a regular speaker at conferences.

A native German speaker, Patrick also speaks English and French.

Recent work

  • Advising Hamburg Commercial Bank (ex HSH Nordbank) since 2009 on several large projects, including its restructuring, EU subsidy proceedings, recovery and resolution planning, AQR/stress test, sale of a €5bn non-performing shipping portfolio to a state-owned bad bank, sale of further several billion euro non-performing loan portfolios to the market as well as the bank's sale to Cerberus, JC Flowers, Goldentree, Centaurus and Bawag.
  • Advising NORD/LB on its restructuring.
  • Advising on strategic M&A, among others on the considered takeover of AG, the merger of Postbank AG and the sale of BHF-BANK.
  • Advising on the sale of Deutsche Postbank to Deutsche Bank.
  • Advising the City of Hamburg on the partial privatisation of the Port of Hamburg (trade sale and IPO). The IPO included an innovative, award-winning tracking stock structure, the first of its kind for a German listed company.

Qualifications

Education

  • Universities of Freiburg, , and Grenoble, France (law)
  • University of Freiburg, Germany (doctorate in law and lecturer in law)
  • University of Wales, UK (Master of Business Administration, MBA)

Professional qualifications

  • Rechtsanwalt, Germany

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