Rick van Aerssen

Rick’s experience includes advising:

• M&A: ADNOC on the Covestro takeover; Novartis on the Morphosys takeover; BASF carve-out and disposal of its coatings division to Carlyle, the Wintershall Dea/Harbour Energy merger and the prior Wintershall DEA merger; Bucherer on the disposal to Rolex; Uber on acquiring its stake in Delivery Hero; TRATON on the Navistar takeover; Volkswagen on the Europcar takeover; Vonovia on the combination with Deutsche Wohnen and the takeovers of Conwert, Buwog, Victoria Park and Hembla; BorgWarner on the Akasol takeover; Deutsche Bank on the proposed combination with Commerzbank, the disposal of BHF Bank and the Sal. Oppenheim acquisition, RWE on acquiring the Con Edison business and the concurrent QIA investment in RWE as well as the Innogy/E.ON business units swap; Midea on the KUKA takeover; LSE on the proposed combination with Deutsche Börse; Gagfah SA on the takeover by Deutsche Annington; Deutsche Post on its sale of Postbank to Deutsche Bank; UniCredit on its takeover offer for Commerzbank and prior to that the HVB takeover and ANTA on its strategic stake in Puma
• (Proposed) IPO and (multiple) rights offerings: AMAG, BASF AG, Befesa, Bilfinger Berger, Brenntag, Colonia Real Estate, Constantia Packaging, Lufthansa, Deutsche Wohnen, Douglas, DWS, EnBW, European Clean Tech I SE, Evonik, FACC, Fresenius, Gagfah, Grohe, Hapag-Lloyd, Hensoldt, the Hamburg ports operator HHLA, Helikos, Immoeast, Infineon, Instone, K+S, Interhyp, ista, Kabel Deutschland, KION, KNDS, MTU Aero Engines, Petrotec, ProSiebenSat1, Siltronic, SGL Carbon, Suse, Tank & Rast, Siltronic, TeamViewer, TLG Immobilien, TRATON, TUI, Vonovia, Wacker Chemie and Q-Cells
• Corporate reorganisations and structuring: VW on the separation and listing of its truck business TRATON, the consolidation of R&D/engineering across TRATON and the structuring of its software business CARIAD; Deutsche Bank on the DWS separation and listing; BASF on the separation of the O&G business and combination with Level1/Harbour Energy and its pending separation and IPO of the agricultural business; Deutsche Post on the hive-down of its post and parcel business; BorgWarner on the PHINIA spin and global separation; Vonovia on the Apollo minority investments
• Equity placements and secured/equity-linked bonds: BASF, K+S, Bayer, BC Partners/Brenntag, CVC/Evonik, Delivery Hero, Deutsche Post, EnBW/Verbund, Fresenius, GAGFAH, HeidelbergCement, Jenoptik, K+S, Kabel Deutschland, KfW/Deutsche Telekom, KION, KKR/Permira/Pro7, KlöCo, Kuka, Linde, Lufthansa, Lufthansa/Amadeus, Merck, MTU Aero Engines, Oaktree/Deutsche Wohnen, Permira/Freenet, Permira/Hugo Boss, Permira/TeamViewer, Phoenix Pharmahandel, Providence/KDG, RWE, SAP, Salzgitter/Vallourec, SGL Carbon, Siemens, Siemens/Infineon, Siemens Energy, Triton/Befesa, TUI, Vonovia, WP/IONOS and Zalando
• Ongoing corporate advice: Rick also regularly advises corporates on ongoing disclosure obligations, treasury transactions (buybacks etc.) and activist issues