Sebastian Pitz

Private Equity

Advised Cinven on the (i) 2018 acquisition of Viridium by the Sixth Cinven Fund and (ii) 2017 acquisition of the life insurance business of Protektor by Viridum*

Advised Goldman Sachs Asset Management as member of a consortium including Advent, Centerbridge and CPPIB on the 2022 public takeover offer to the shareholders of Aareal Bank with an overall valuation of approx. €2bn

Advised Hellman & Friedman and Nets on the 2018 acquisition of Concardis from Bain Capital and Advent*

Advised HPS Investment Partners on the (i) 2023 sale of PEAC's Russian business, (ii) 2021 acquisition of the leasing business of AAB Leasing and (iii) 2017 acquisition of IKB Leasing (now PEAC)

Advised Nordic Capital on the (i) 2023 investment in Helmsauer Group, (ii) 2022 acquisition and combination of Baufi24, Hüttig & Rompf and Creditweb in Bilthouse Group and (iii) 2020 acquisition of BearingPoint RegTech (now: Regnology)

Advised Pollen Street Capital on the (i) 2024 acquisition of Etops Group, (ii) 2023 acquisition and combination of niiio finance group, fundsaccess, FundHero, FinTecc and MiFID-Recorder and (iii) 2022 acquisition of a majority shareholding in Pair Finance

Fast Growth

Advised Enpal on the (i) 2024 sale of over 60,000 renewable energy solutions, (ii) 2023 secondary share sales, (iii) 2023 €215m Series D financing round and (iv) 2021 €150m Series C financing round

Advised Enviria on the 2024 investment from Blackrock of over €200m

Advised FNZ on the (i) 2022 acquisition of DIAMOS and (ii) 2022 acquisition of the business of Authenteq

Advised N26 on the regulatory aspects of the 2021 US$900m Series E financing round at a valuation of US$9bn

Advised wefox on the (i) 2023 debt financing from Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Barclays and UniCredit, (ii) 2022 US$400m Series D funding round, (iii) 2022 acquisition of TAF and (iv) 2021 US$650m Series C financing round

M&A and other

Advised ABN AMRO on the 2024 acquisition of Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe Privatbank from Fosun

Advised Adler Group on the (i) 2023 liability restructuring and new financing (ii) 2022 sale of a €1.05bn real estate portfolio to international investment company KKR and German real estate specialist Velero, (iii) 2022 sale of a €1.3bn real estate portfolio to LEG Immobilien, (iv) 2020 public takeover offer in the form of a share-for-share offer to the shareholders of ADLER Real Estate, (v) 2020 acquisition of a minority stake in CONSUS and on the conclusion of a Call-Option Agreement with the mayor shareholder of Consus and (vi) 2020 voluntary public takeover offer and delisting tender offer to the shareholders of WESTGRUND

Advised BPCE Group on the 2024 acquisition of Société Générale Equipment Finance (including the German GEFA businesses) 

Advised Deutsche Bank on the (i) 2020 long-term exclusive bancassurance cooperation regarding life insurance and property, accident and liability insurance with Zurich (ii) 2020 long-term exclusive bancassurance cooperation regarding credit-linked and construction financing insurance with Talanx and (iii) 2018 IPO of DWS with a total placement volume of €1.4bn

Advised DWS on the 2020 long-term exclusive asset management cooperation with Zurich

Advised Faurecia on the 2021 public takeover offer to the shareholders of HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA in the form of a cash offer and the separate acquisition of HELLA shares resulting in an overall transaction value of approx. €6.8bn

Advised Landesbank Baden-Württemberg on the 2022 acquisition of Berlin Hyp from Landesbank Berlin Holding at a valuation of above €1bn

Regulatory

Banks, investment firms, payment institutions, asset managers, insurance companies and corporates on a broad range of regulatory projects and topics including: IFR/IFD, CRR2 and CRDV, Solvency2, AIFMD/UCITSD, Brexit and corporate reorganisation projects, ECB supervision, licensing and exemptions, crisis situations and strategic business decisions, recovery and resolution, regulatory consolidation and Art. 7, 8 CRR and LE waivers, corporate governance of regulated institutions, internal and special audits, onsite-inspections and compliance matters (e.g. with respect to securities laws or AML/AFC), cross-border financial services, capital and liquidity requirements and other regulatory requirements, German bank separation rules and compensation requirements