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About Mathilde Beaumunier
Mathilde is a French-qualified competition lawyer.
She joined our Berlin antitrust, competition and trade practice in January 2017 and works on multijurisdictional merger filings, vertical agreements and cartel investigations where she advises clients across all industries with a focus on industrial and financial sectors.
During her time at Freshfields, Mathilde has spent six months on secondment in-house with a large international bank.
Mathilde speaks English and German in addition to native French.
She is also a member of the Community Impact team of the Berlin office.
Recent work
- Lufthansa on its proposed acquisition of a stake in ITA Airways (EU Phase II)
- a European carrier on its potential cooperation with another airline
- EQT on the divestment of Schülke & Mayr, a leading provider of infection prevention and treatment solutions for the healthcare industry
- a shipping company on German merger control in connection with several joint ventures
- Hellman & Friedman on its voluntary public takeover offer for zooplus, including partnership with EQT IX
- Kronospan on its proposed acquisition of the Polish business of Pfleiderer (EU Phase II)
- Saint-Gobain on its $2.3 billion Construction Chemicals merger with GCP Applied Technologies
- Payments platform Nets and its owner Hellman & Friedman on the all-share merger of Nets into Nexi, in a transaction valued at €7.8bn
- Fidelidade - Companhia de Seguros, S.A., the leading insurance company in Portugal, on the acquisition of a majority stake in the prosperity company AG, an insurtech group with main focus of operation in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein
- gategroup on the acquisition of the European business of Lufthansa’s catering subsidiary LSG Sky Chefs;
- Nets, majority owned by Hellman & Friedman, on the disposal of the majority of its Corporate Services businesses to Mastercard for €2.85bn
- Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group on the planned acquisition of BENTELER Distribution
- SumUp, the global mobile payment services provider, on its proposed acquisition of Tiller Systems, a leading European digital service provider for gastronomy merchants
- Francisco Partners in relation to its investment in Native Instruments, a Berlin-based company active in digital music creation software and hardware and acquisition of MyHeritage, global discovery platform for exploring family history
- CVC/Messer Group on the multi-jurisdictional merger filings when acquiring parts of the Linde/Praxair technical gases business
- Hellman & Friedman on the European Commission’s review of its proposed acquisition of payment group Concardis
Qualifications
Education
- University of Burgundy, France (Master Degree in International Business Law)
- University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Certificate in Legal Studies)
Professional qualifications
- French-qualified lawyer (Avocate à la Cour, Paris Bar)
- Registered as European Lawyer with the Chamber of Lawyers in Berlin, Germany (Rechtsanwaltskammer Berlin)
Memberships
- Member of Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht, an association of German-speaking competition lawyers
- Member of W@Competition