Matthias Kiesewetter
Biography
Overview
Matthias is a Partner in the Global Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group of White & Case. He advises on M&A, joint ventures and venture capital investments across a broad range of business sectors, including technology, media, automotive and industrial. Matthias also advises listed companies on the entire range of capital markets law.
Recent representations include M&A transactions for Daimler, Clariant, LANXESS, AIXTRON, Nordic Capital, Verdane Capital and Battery Ventures.
Matthias spend significant time on secondments to the in-house M&A team of a DAX-30 Company and to the in-house M&A/ECM team of a leading investment bank.
Prior to joining White & Case, Matthias trained with the Takeover Panel of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht, BaFin).
Experience
Advised LANXESS Deutschland GmbH on the sale of its 40% stake in the chemical park operator Currenta to funds managed by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets.
Advised Clariant AG inter alia on the sale of its health care packaging business to Arsenal Capital.
Advised Allen & Company in connection with KKR's offer to buy out Axel Springer's minority shareholders.
Advised Daimler AG inter alia on its investment in Cologne-based eSport pioneer SK Gaming.
Advised Verdane Capital inter alia on its investments in smava (2016), Navabi (2017) and momox (2018).
Advised Battery Ventures inter alia on the add-on acquisition of GIS software company Geocom for its portfolio company AED-SICAD.
Advised Nordic Capital inter alia on its acquisition of the Ober Scharrer Group and the acquisition of GHD GesundHeits GmbH Deutschland.
Advised dual-listed AIXTRON, the target company, on the lapsed takeover by the Chinese financial investor Fujian Grand Chip Investment.
Advised the management board of Germany's leading wine retailer HAWESKO Holding AG, the target company, in connection with the unsolicited public takeover bid by TOCOS Beteiligung GmbH as well as the search for a White & Knight.
Advised Super Group Limited on its acquisition of special logistics company INtIME group from Equistone.
Advised Deutsche Bank AG on the acquisition of Exchanging Transaction Bank GmbH from Xchanging plc.
Advised a bank consortium on the financing of the - lapsed - public takeover of Rhön-Klinikum AG by Fresenius SE.
Advised Motion Equity Partners on the divesture of ixetic group to Magna International Inc.
Advised Feintool AG, a listed Swiss technology company, on the acquisition of Herzing+Schroth group.
Advised Clariant AG on the public takeover of Süd-Chemie AG from One Equity Partners and numerous family shareholders.
Stakebuilding, in: Paschos/ Fleischer, Handbook on German Takeover Law, C.H. Beck, 2017 (Beteiligungsaufbau, in: Paschos/ Fleischer, Handbuch Übernahmerecht nach dem WpÜG, C.H.Beck, 2017)
The handling of environmental risks in M&A transactions, Betriebs-Berater 2016, pp. 1798 – 1806 (Umgang mit Umweltrisiken bei M&A-Transaktionen) (Co-author with Dr. Martin Hofmann)
Reasoned Statement of the Management Board and the Supervisory Board under Section 27 of the German Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act – Practice Report (January 2007 – June 2013), (Die Stellungnahme von Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat gem. § 27 WpÜG – ein Praxisbericht (Januar 2007 - Juni 2013) Corporate Finance Law, Issue 3, pp. 105 – 115, 2013, (co-author with Dorothea Kreymborg)
Practical aspects of public takeover bids in times of volatile markets, AG, Issue 20, pp. 741 – 749, 2012, (Praxisrelevante Aspekte öffentlicher Übernahmen in Zeiten volatiler Märkte) (co-author with Marc Christian Gei)
Practical aspects in connection with the financing of public takeover bids, Corporate Finance Law, Issue 6, pp. 284 – 291, 2011, (Praxisrelevante Aspekte der Finanzierungssicherstellung bei öffentlichen Übernahmen) (co-author with Alexander Kiefner)
Competence of the general shareholders' meeting to approve the sale and purchase of assets in M&A transactions, Der Konzern, p. 451 et seqq., 2009, (Hauptversammlungszuständigkeit bei Veräußerung und Erwerb von Gesellschaftsvermögen im Rahmen von M&A-Transaktionen) (co-author with Myriam Spengler)
The legal framework for prebid stakebuilding, WM, p. 340 et seqq., 2009, (Rechtliche Rahmenbedinungen des Beteiligungsaufbaus im Vorfeld von Unternehmensübernahmen) (co-author with Andreas Meyer)
Konrad Adenauer Scholar
Best Lawyers, Capital Markets Law, 2019
Highly Recommended Lawyer, kanzleimonitor 2013–2014, M&A
Highly Recommended Lawyer, kanzleimonitor 2013–2014, Capital Markets
