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Tobias Franz is a principal associate in our tax department. He advises a broad client base on domestic and international M&A transactions (including real estate transactions and distressed transactions), financial restructurings and (intra-group) reorganizations. His practice also covers tax audits as well as disputes with tax authorities and contractual counterparties.
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- A.P. Møller-Mærsk and APM Terminals on (i) the planned long-term joint venture with Eurogate and a planned €1bn investment in the modernisation of the North Sea Terminal Bremerhaven, (ii) the sale of their participation in Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven and Rail Terminal Wilhelmshaven to Hapag-Lloyd and (iii) the acquisition of Senator International group
- Veloxis and Asahi Kasei on the acquistion of AiCuris
- Fresenius on the sale of the Calea homecare business in Canada to Capital Health Partners
- BIOTRONIK Group on the sale of its vascular intervention business to Teleflex
- Shareholder families of Huf on sale of stakes in Huf Group and partnership with Sodecia
- Ad-hoc group of lenders on the restructuring of VARTA AG
- Barclays on the sale of its German consumer finance business to BAWAG
- Deutz AG on its acquisition of a diesel engine business from Rolls-Royce Power Systems
- Näder Holding on the repurchase of Ottobock Shares from EQT and Refinancing
- Deutsche Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH on the sale of its share in the DDV Media Group
- Villeroy & Boch AG on the acquisition of the Ideal Standard Group from Anchorage Capital Group and CVC Credit
- KOSTAL group on the acquisition of material assets of the Compleo Group from insolvency
- Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd. on the acquisition of a majority share in DiaSys Diagnostic Systems GmbH
- Razor Group on the acquisition of the Valoreo Group
- Penta and its shareholders on the acquisition of Penta by the French fintech company Qonto
- House of HR and its management on the acquisition of House of HR by Bain Capital Private Equity
- Eppendorf SE on the sale of a micro manipulation product portfolio to Calibre Scientific
- Evotec SE on the acquisition of Central Glass Germany GmbH from Japanese chemical manufacturing company Central Glass Co. Ltd.
- Continental AG on (i on complex reorganisations (inter alia, relating to the separation of the Vitesco business) and (ii) the acquisition of the printing technology business of the Trelleborg Group
- Bondholders on the sale of Breeze Three Energy to Statkraft
- ams-OSRAM on (i) the sale of its digital systems business unit to Inventronics and (ii) the sale of its division Traxon Technologies to the Prosperity Group
- Evotec SE on its Nasdaq listing
- Grünenthal on the acquisition of Mestex AG
- MYR GmbH on its acquisition by Gilead Sciences, Inc.
- Antirion SGR on the acquisition of the headquarter of Thales Deutschland from Samsung
- AXA IM - Real Assets on the acquisition of a portfolio of eleven hotels from Principal Real Estate and on a joint venture with Sirius Real Estate Ltd.
- Aurubis AG on the acquisition of Metallo Group from Towerbrook Capital Partners
- Freudenberg SE on the sale of its IT business unit to Canadian IT company Syntax
- HSH Nordbank AG (now: Hamburg Commercial Bank AG) i.a. on its privatisation and transactions
- Liberty Global plc i.a. on the sale of the Unitymedia Group to Vodafone
Dr. Tobias Franz
Principal Associate
Hamburg Office
Hohe Bleichen 7
Hamburg 20354