Julian Schwanebeck

Private equity

• Advised Advent International and Culligan International on the acquisition of Aqua Vital Group, a market leader for water dispensers in the DACH region and further bolt-on acquisitions.*
• Advised Berkshire Partners / PT Holdings on the acquisition of REPA from Riverside.*
• Advised EOS Partners on the acquisition of Flexicode Group.*
• Advised Genstar Capital on the acquisition of European online retailer Bihr.*
• Advised LEA Partners on the acquisition of Little Bird Group and investment platform formation.*
• Advised Lone Star Funds and Stark Group on the acquisition of Raab Karcher from Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A.*
• Advised Maguar Capital on the acquisition of Belgian hsbcad as well as on several bids for targets in the software sector.*
• Advised Novalpina Capital on the acquisition of Israeli cyber security specialist NSO Group.*
• Advised Novalpina Capital on its bid to acquire PharmaZell from DPE.*
• Advised Oaktree Capital on the acquisition of Aqseptence Group.*
• Advised ODDO BHF Private Equity on the acquisition of a stake in Schrader Group.*
• Advised TA Associates and SER Group on the acquisition of AFI Solutions.*
• Advised 3i/Evernex on the acquisition of Technogroup.*

M&A transactions

• Advised Alibaba Group on the acquisition of German Visable Group from a private equity seller.*
• Advised BB Kapital (family office of Bernd Beetz) on the sale of a stake in Mykita GmbH to LVMH group.*
• Advised Czech energy corporate CEZ group on the acquisition of Belectric Group from RWE.*
• Advised CEZ group on the acquisition of wind farm projects.*
• Advised Elevate Brands LLC on the merger with its German competitor SellerX (Amazon aggregators).*
• Advised Glooko Inc. on the acquisition of assets out of insolvency from xBird (med. tech).*
• Advised Panasonic Aviation Corporation on the sale of its stake in idair GmbH to Lufthansa Technik AG.*
• Advised Saverto Holding on the acquisition of K. Tex.*
• Advised Shareholder of Ackermann Instrumente GmbH on the sale to SHS Capital.*
• Advised Wille Finance AG on its investment in a home care group.*

Venture capital / Growth equity transactions

• Advised Czech venture capital fund Inven Capital on its clean/green tech investments in Germany (i.a. tado, Forto, Zolar, Cloud & Heat, Sunfire).*
• Advised Danish A.P. Møller Holding on its investment in German logistics unicorn Forto.*
• Advised Roadsurfer on financing rounds.*
• Advised TCV on all of its investments in Germany (Celonis, FlixMobility, Trade Republic, Spryker, Mambu, brillen.de).*

*Matters prior to joining White & Case