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
Equity
- BioMar on its DKK 3.1 billion ($480 million) IPO and Nasdaq Copenhagen listing
- 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
- 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
Debt
- A leading German automobile manufacturer on numerous bond offerings, totaling more than $25 billion
- Avolta/Dufry on its €400 million high yield bond offering and concurrent cash tender offer
- Roche on bond offerings totaling $20 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 on its $650 million bond offering
- The underwriters on:
- SEC-registered notes offerings by National Grid, totaling $2.25 billion
- an $800 million bond offering by Weir
- U.S. MTN program updates and note offerings by Danske Bank, totaling more than $10 billion
- 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 more than $15 billion
- bond offerings by U.S. subsidiaries 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
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
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