About
Vanessa is a member of our global transactions group and advises in banking and finance matters with a particular focus on acquisition financings, leveraged financings and real estate financings.
Vanessa is specialized in national and international banking and financial law as well as financial structuring with a focus on corporate and leveraged transactions and real estate financings. In addition, she has wide experience in advising borrowers and lenders in the context of out-of court financial restructurings and refinancings.
She is fluent in German and English.
Additional Information
- Advising H.I.G. Capital in connection with the ongoing financing needs and the disposal of HCS Holding;
- Advising the lenders of LEONI AG on its financial restructuring under a German StaRUG scheme;
- Advising Brookfield on the EUR 93.5m refinancing of the SI-Centrum complex in Stuttgart;
- Advising Evotec SE on its unsecured €150 million loan facility provided by the European Investment Bank.
- Advising Apera Asset Management on various financings, including the financing for Infratech Bau GmbH, an H.I.G. Capital portfolio company in the fibre optic sector, and the financing for EVP Holding, a portfolio company of capiton.
- A leading German Pfandbriefbank on the EUR 754m refinancing of a large department store portfolio;
- Advising TeamViewer AG on the amendment of its existing credit facilities.
- Advising Takata on various finance related aspects of the EMEA part of its worldwide restructuring.
- Advising HSH Nordbank on the sale and transfer of several loan portfolios to different investors.
- Advising a market-leading shipmanager on its acquisition of a large German shipping company in the context of its financial crisis.
- Advising a pension fund in its position as lender to an insolvent real estate project company with regard to all relevant aspects of finance and insolvency law.

Vanessa Steiner
Principal Associate
Frankfurt am Main Office
Bockenheimer Anlage 44
60322 Frankfurt am Main