About Olaf Ehlers

Olaf is counsel in our M&A practice in New York. 

Olaf advises domestic and international clients in M&A transactions on the buy as well as on the sell side, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings, with a particular focus on cross-border matters.

Recent work

• Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease on its acquisition of LogicBio® Therapeutics, Inc.
• CarLotz on its sale to Shift Technologies.
• Cazoo on its pending $7 billion business combination with US SPAC AJAX I, including a concurrent $800 million PIPE.
• Royal Caribbean Group on the all-cash carve-out of its Azamara cruise line to Sycamore Partners, including its three-ship fleet and associated intellectual property.
• Royal Caribbean Cruises on the acquisition of Hapag-Lloyd Cruises by TUI Cruises, a joint venture co-owned with TUI AG.
• CoreMedia AG on its sale to Los Angeles based OpenGate Capital.
• Emerson Electric on its acquisition of the Aventics Group from Triton.
• DEUTZ AG on its partial financing of the acquisition of Neue Halberg-Guss by companies advised by One Square Advisors.
• Maersk Line on the divestiture of its global dry bulk shipping operations to The China Navigation Company.
• Neology, Inc., a portfolio company of One Equity Partners, on its acquisition of the automated license plate recognition business from 3M.
• Maersk Line on its acquisition of container liner company Hamburg Sued.
• Hapag-Lloyd AG on its acquisition of container liner company United Arab Shipping Company.
• Expedia, Inc. as majority shareholder of trivago GmbH on trivago’s IPO at the NASDAQ stock exchange.
• Expedia, Inc. on its acquisition of a majority stake in hotel meta search engine trivago.
• Wärtsilä Corp. on the acquisition of the Marine Systems International unit from L-3 Communications Corp.
• Madison International Realty on the sale of Franfurt high rise “Trianon Tower” for €540 million.
• Berggruen Holdings on the acquisition of the Karstadt Group (2010) and the subsequent divestiture (2014).
• Liberty Global, Inc. on the acquisition of Kabel Baden-Württemberg.