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by Legal Desire
6 May 2022

Freshfields advises Aareal Bank on new takeover bid by financial investors

Advising firms

Deal team

8 lawyers named
LawyerFirmSeniorityPracticeOffice
Christoph H. Seibt Lead Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Partner Corporate/M&A Hamburg
Gunnar Schuster Lead Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Partner Banking Regulatory, Financing Frankfurt
Uwe Salaschek Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Counsel Antitrust and Competition Berlin
Holger Hartenfels Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Counsel Banking Regulatory Frankfurt
Karsten Krumm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Senior associate Corporate/M&A Hamburg
Dominic Divivier Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Senior associate Antitrust Düsseldorf
Jean Mohamed Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Associate Corporate/M&A Hamburg
Jan Kothe Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Associate Tax Law Hamburg

Stated terms

Stated value
EUR 2bn (approximately €2 billion)
What the figure measures
Enterprise value
Client
Aareal Bank AGTarget
Counterparties
Atlantic BidCo (Bidder) (Buy-side)
Advent International Corporation (Investor)
Centerbridge Partners, L.P. (Investor)
CPP Investment Board Europe S.àr.l (Investor)
Goldman Sachs (Investor)