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 <p><strong>Patrick is a partner in our global transaction practice. </strong></p> <p>Since joining the firm, he has worked across many industries with a particular focus on financial institutions.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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 Bank’s M&A department in New York and his long-term advice in particular for Hamburg Commercial Bank mean Patrick understands the workings of large financial institutions. He also has good knowledge of the renewable energy and infrastructure/transport sectors.</p> <p>Patrick is our lead country partner for the Nordics, the author of various publications and a regular speaker at conferences.</p> <p>A native German speaker, Patrick also speaks English and French.</p> Recent work <ul> <li>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.</li> <li>Advising NORD/LB on its restructuring.</li> <li>Advising Deutsche Bank on strategic M&A, among others on the considered takeover of Commerzbank AG, the merger of Postbank AG and the sale of BHF-BANK.</li> <li>Advising Deutsche Post on the sale of Deutsche Postbank to Deutsche Bank.</li> <li>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.</li> </ul> Qualifications <p><strong>Education</strong></p> <ul> <li>Universities of Freiburg, Germany, and Grenoble, France (law)</li> <li>University of Freiburg, Germany (doctorate in law and lecturer in law)</li> <li>University of Wales, UK (Master of Business Administration, MBA)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Professional qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li><em>Rechtsanwalt,</em> Germany</li> </ul> 29/09/2021 Patrick Cichy | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Contact Patrick [email protected] Hamburg Frankfurt am Main Hohe Bleichen 7 Bockenheimer Anlage 44 20354 Hamburg 60322 Frankfurt am Main T +49 40 36 90 60 T +49 69 27 30 80 F +49 40 36 90 61 55 F +49 69 23 26 64 29/09/2021 Patrick Cichy | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer .