Christopher Diel
Lawyers

Advises corporate and investment banking clients on a broad range of cross-border equity and debt capital markets and M&A transactions.
Christopher advises corporations, financial institutions and investment banking clients on securities offerings, corporate finance and other strategic corporate transactions. His practice focuses on equity and debt capital market offerings, including IPOs, rights issues, private placements, investment-grade debt offerings and liability management transactions. He also advises clients on complex cross-border public and private M&A transactions and general corporate matters.
He is a native German speaker.
Experience
Capital Markets
- Klarna on its $1.37 billion SEC-registered IPO and NYSE listing
- Birkenstock on its $845 million secondary offering and $200 million share repurchase
- Galderma on its CHF2.3 billion ($2.6 billion) IPO and SIX Swiss Exchange listing
- A leading German automobile manufacturer on eleven bond offerings, totaling $18.25 billion
- Roche on five bond offerings, totaling $19.4 billion, and a cash tender offer
- Imperial Brands on its $1 billion bond offering and a cash tender offer
- Ferguson on its $1 billion bond offering
- Reliance Industries Limited on its $4 billion bond offering and a consent solicitation
- Nestlé on its $5 billion bond offering
- Signature Aviation (formerly BBA Aviation) on its $650 million bond offering
- Netcompany on its DKK 7.75 billion (US $1.2 billion) IPO and Nasdaq Copenhagen listing
- ContourGlobal on its £1.7 billion IPO and London premium listing, as well as its subsequent €806 million Class 1 acquisition of Acciona Termosolar
- The underwriters on:
- an $800 million bond offering by Weir
- four U.S. MTN program updates and seven note offerings by Danske Bank, totaling $9.25 billion
- the SEC-registered $1.5 billion notes offering by National Grid
- five SEC-registered subordinated Tier 2 notes offerings and one AT1 notes offering by Deutsche Bank, totaling more than $20 billion
- numerous SEC-registered notes offerings by Oesterreichische Kontrollbank, totaling $13.5 billion
- bond offerings by Boston Gas, Brooklyn Union Gas, Narragansett Electric and New England Power (each a U.S. subsidiary of National Grid), totaling $3.75 billion
- the $250 million convertible senior notes offering by Shake Shack
- the establishment of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan’s global MTN program and subsequent $650 million notes offering, and a prior $1.75 billion notes offering
- The dealer managers and solicitation agents on Devon Energy’s debt-for-debt exchange offer
Mergers & Acquisitions
- Red Bull on its minority investment in Leeds United Football Club
- Sonae on its cash tender offer for Musti Group
- Cadeler on its $597 million combination with Eneti
- Forbion European Acquisition on its $138 million de-SPAC combination with enGene
- Reliance New Energy Solar, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, on its acquisition of REC Solar Holdings from China National Bluestar for an enterprise value of $771 million
- Outotec on its stock-for-stock combination with Metso’s minerals business
- Reliance Industries and Reliance Holding USA on their corporate reorganization and merger
Insights
Education
LL.M., Columbia Law School
- James Kent Scholar
Second Legal State Exam, Higher Regional Court, Berlin (Kammergericht)
First Legal State Exam, University of Münster
Prior experience
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (London), 2016-2017
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Munich), 2013-2016
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York
Not admitted in England & Wales