Carsten focuses on private equity transactions across Europe. He advises financial sponsors, sovereign wealth funds and corporates on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, (minority) investments, joint ventures, co-investments and management incentivisation.
Carsten has worked with many key financial sponsor clients of the firm. He has extensive experience in a wide range of sectors and frequently advises on transactions in high-growth sectors such as software and technology.
Carsten has been recognized for his work, including being featured in law.com's list of "rising stars" in European private equity.
He is based in Frankfurt and has completed secondments with our financial sponsors teams in London, Hong Kong and Munich.
Carsten speaks German and English.
- Adevinta on
- the sale of its participation in Distilled to Blacksheep
- the sale of its participation in willhaben.at to Styria Media Group
- Blackstone and Permira on the €14bn take-private of Adevinta
- Corten Capital on the acquisition of Matrix42
- FountainVest on the acquisition of BMTS Technology (formerly Bosch Mahle Turbo Systems)
- Getir on the acquisition of Gorillas
- Hellman & Friedman on the €2.9bn acquisition of AutoScout24
- Mindray on the acquisition of a majority interest in DiaSys
- NGN Fiber Network on the partnership with Eurofiber
- One Equity Partners on the acquisition of Walki
- Permira and TeamViewer on the IPO of TeamViewer at a value of €5.25bn and Permira on subsequent placements of TeamViewer shares
- Permira on
- the sale of a majority stake in P&I Personal & Informatik valuing the company at €2bn
- the sale of its remaining stake in P&I Personal & Informatik valuing the company at €5.5bn
- Prominent sovereign wealth funds on various investments across Europe
- TPG on the sale of Transporeon
- Warburg Pincus and Apax on the acquisition of T-Mobile Netherlands (today: Odido) at a value of €5.1bn
- Warburg Pincus on
- the acquisition of Arsipa and subsequent add-on acquisitions
- the acquisition of blau direkt
- the acquisition, as part of a consortium, of Community Fibre
- the acquisition of Infoniqa and subsequent add-on acquisitions of Sage Schweiz, Run-my-Accounts and BRZ
- the investment in IONOS
- the disposal of the investment in IONOS by way of IPO and subsequent placements of IONOS shares
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