PRIVATE EQUITY AB U DHABI | BEIJING | BRUSSELS | DÜSSELDORF | FRANKFURT | HON G KONG | LONDON I MENL O PARK I MILAN I MUNICH NE W YORK | PARIS | ROME | SA N FRANCISCO | SÃ O PAULO | SHANGHAI I SINGAPORE | TOKYO | TORONTO | WASHINGTON , DC SELECTED TRANSACTIONS Private equity investors have to deal with a number of specific chal - lenges when making their investments or in exit scenarios. We offer ALLIANZ CAPITAL PARTNERS/MAN ROLAND DRUCKMASCHINEN AG our private equity clients and their portfolio companies comprehen - - Advice on the acquisition of Werner Lies GmbH & Co. KG sive legal advice regarding all relevant aspects of the acquisition and BARCLAYS PRIVATE EQUITY disvestiture of assets, the financing of acquisitions and fund formation. - Advice on the intended acquistion of a company in the consumables Our German private equity practice is part of a global private equity sector: German merger control and multijurisdictional filings group which advises small, medium-sized and large sponsors on a CVC CAPITAL PARTNERS worldwide basis. - Advice on the auction process for the sale of Merck Generics by Merck KGaA. - Advice on the acquisition of DYWIDAG-Systems International from OUR SERVICES INCLUDE Industri Kapital I Tax optimized formation of private equity/venture capital fund structures DAIMLER AG I Advising on all M&A-related aspects of an acquisition and divestiture of - Advice on the sale of a 80.1 percent stake in the future Chrysler companies or participations including tax relevant optimization Holding LLC to a subsidiary of Cerberus Capital Management L.P. I Development of alternative investment models and structures GENERAL ATLANTIC GMBH I Financing of acquisitions including the issue of high-yield bonds or the - Advice on the acquisition of AMEDES Gruppe creation of hybrid financing structures; debt restructurings, refinancing HELABA - LANDESBANK HESSEN-THÜRINGEN and recapitalisation - Advice on the financing of the acquisition of Siteco Beteiligungsver- I Divestitures of portfolio companies or participations in trade sales or initial waltungs GmbH by Barclays Private Equity public offerings HYPO REAL ESTATE HOLDING AG (HRE) - Advice on the announced intention of a group of investors to launch BROAD EXPERTISE a tender offer for up to 24.9 percent of shares in HRE Our clients benefit from our broad industry expertise ranging from typical indus- INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM INVESTMENT COMPANY (IPIC )/ AABAR trial sectors such as the engineering, chemical, telecommunication, automotive - Advice on Aabar's and Daimler AG's acquisition of a majority or pharmaceutical/healthcare and chemical industries to banking and finance shareholding in Brawn GP (including the acquisition of financial institutions or of (distressed) loan port- - Advice on the acquisition of newly issued shares constituting a 9.1 percent stake in Daimler AG (also advising Aabar Investment PJSE) folios). With our strong presence in the significant financial centers around the - Advice on the acquisition of a 70 percent stake in MAN Ferrostaal world, we are able to cover all key aspects in international private equity trans - from the MAN AG actions such as M&A-related issues (contracts, due diligence, etc.), financing INVENTUX TECHNOLOGIES AG transactions, antitrust and other regulatory requirements, management incentive - Advice on its first financing (equity and debt), including a shareholders’ schemes as well as cross-border tax structurings. agreement with Capital Stage AG (VC investor) INVESTCORP SA - Advice on the acquisition and sale of the Minimax Group JIL SANDER - Advice on the implementation of a management equity program KKR - Advice on the auction process for the sale of Altana Pharma by Altana AG PPM CAPITAL LTD. - Advice on the financing of the acquisition of jobs in time holding GmbH by orizon GmbH RAG-STIFTUNG FOUNDATION - Advice on the sale of its 25.01 percent stake in Evonik Industries AG to CVC Capital Partners SHEARMAN & STERLING GERMANY CONTACT OUR FOCUS Dr. Alfred Kossmann Shearman & Sterling has been advising many of the world's leading cor - Breite Straße 69 porations and financial institutions, governments and governmental D-40213 Düsseldorf organizations for more than 135 years. We are committed to providing T +49.211.17888.619 legal advice that is insightful and valuable to our clients. This has resulted [email protected] in groundbreaking transactions in all major regions of the world. Dr. Harald Selzner Given the complexity of international and domestic financial transactions, Breite Straße 69 we place a high emphasis on providing our clients with individual atten - D-40213 Düsseldorf tion. Trust and personal cooperation are the basis for the service-oriented T: +49.211.17888.909 legal advice that we provide in representing our clients' interests. [email protected] FACTS & FIGURES Dr. Thomas König Founded 1873 (New York) Gervinusstraße 17 Opening Düsseldorf office 1991 D-60322 Frankfurt am Main Opening Frankfurt office 1991 T +49.69.9711.1673 Opening Munich office 2001 Email: [email protected] Attorneys worldwide over 900 Attorneys in Germany approx. 90 Offices worldwide 20 PRACTICE AREAS - Administrative and Regulatory Law - Antitrust - Arbitration/Litigation - Bank Regulatory / Asset Management - Banking & Finance - Capital Markets - Compliance - Corporate Law - Mergers & Acquisitions - National and International Taxation - Private Equity - Restructuring 03 10.