About
Florian advises leading private equity funds and strategic investors on cross-border M&A transactions, public takeovers, joint ventures and corporate reorganizations.
The focus of Florian’s advisory work is on transactions in the areas of technology, software and e-commerce. IFLR1000 recognizes him as a “Rising Star Partner” 2025 for M&A and private equity in Germany. He is also listed among the “Best Lawyers” 2025 for M&A in Germany by Handelsblatt Best Lawyers.
Florian speaks German and English.
Additional Information
- Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman on the attempted public takeover of Scout24
- Carlyle on the public takeover of SNP and the subsequent domination and profit and loss transfer agreement with SNP
- CVC Capital Partners on the refinancing of Douglas
- Deutsche Beteiligungs AG on various transactions, including the sale of BTV Multimedia and the acquisition of Gienanth
- EQT on the sale of the personal care business of Schülke & Mayr to Ashland
- Hellman & Friedman on the acquisition of AutoScout24
- IBM on the acquisition of StreamSets and webMethods from Software AG
- KKR on various transactions, including the acquisitions of weclapp by Exact Group and Wittur
- Midea on the public takeover of KUKA
- Permira on various transactions, including the acquisition and subsequent sale of a majority stake in P&I Personal & Informatik, the acquisitions of GFKL and Lowell as well as the initial investment in Adevinta
- One Equity Partners on various transactions, including the acquisitions of DURAN, Wheaton, Kimble Chase, Müller+Müller and Walki and the investments in Lutech and Walterscheid
- Stonepeak on the acquisition of a co-control stake in IFCO
- TE Connectivity on the public takeover of First Sensor
- TPG Capital on the acquisition of Transporeon
- Triton on the sale of a majority stake in Kelvion to Apollo
- Warburg Pincus on the acquisition of IPAN
* This list includes work that Florian completed while at other firms.
Dr. Florian Sippel
Partner
Munich Office
Maximiliansplatz 13
Munich 80333