Carsten’s experience includes advising:

• the Federal Republic of Germany on entering into a security agreement with thyssenkrupp AG and TKMS GmbH with the aim of safeguarding the availability of core security and defence industry capabilities;
• Manulife IM-backed GCI on creating the first pan-Baltic tower company in partnership with Tele2, comprising approx. 2,700 tower and rooftop sites in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania;
• German shipyard MEYER WERFT on its comprehensive restructuring with its creditors, shareholders as well as the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Lower Saxony;
• AXA IM Alts, a global leader in alternative investments, on the acquisition of a majority stake in ILOS Projects GmbH from Omnes Capital and founder-led ILOS New Energy;  
• MDAX listed independent power producer Encavis AG on the announced voluntary public takeover offer by KKR and the conclusion of an investment agreement;
• Global Infrastructure Partners on the acquisition of wpd offshore GmbH, a leading offshore wind-farm developer, from wpd AG;
• Brookfield on its acquisition, alongside DigitalBridge, of a majority interest in Deutsche Telekom’s tower business, GD Towers;
• Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) on the acquisition of CeramTec Group, one of the global market leaders in advanced technical ceramics, from BC European Capital X;
• Hapag-Lloyd AG on the acquisition of (i) 100% of the shares in SAAM Ports S.A. and SAAM Logistics S.A. from the Chilean based terminal operator and logistics service provider SM SAAM S.A. and (ii) a minority stake of 49% in the Italian Spinelli Group, which is one of the leading logistics providers in the Italian market;
• Maersk on the sale of their participation in Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven and Rail Terminal Wilhelmshaven to Hapag-Lloyd AG;
• Hamburg Süd group on the sale of its dry bulk shipping operations to The China Navigation Company, a member of the Swire group.
• Compass Group on its acquisition of Hofmann-Menü Holdings GmbH (HOFMANNs) from Partners Group;
• Indivumed GmbH, a global industry leader in the provision and analysis of clinical biospecimen material, on the sale of its business unit "IndivuServ" to a wholly owned subsidiary of JSR Life Science, Crown Bioscience, Inc.;
• Commerz Real AG on the acquisition of a participation in a real estate portfolio consisting of 10 Kaufhof department stores with the aim of a longterm investment and development with Signa Prime Selection AG; and
• Aurubis AG on the acquisition of the Belgian/Spanish Metallo Group, a metal recycling and refining company, from Metallo Holdings 3 B.V.