Mergers and Acquisitions

• Mereo BioPharma on its combination with OncoMed Pharmaceuticals
• Reliance Industries Limited on its acquisition of wireless infrastructure assets from Reliance Communications
• Telia Company on the:
  • $1.03 billion sale of its holding in Nepalese telecom operator Ncell to Axiata
  • Sale of its interest in Tajik telecom operator Tcell to AKFED
• Technip on its $17 billion business combination with FMC Technologies
• Pattern Energy’s committee of independent directors on the acquisitions of six wind power projects
• A major European telecom operator on its anchor investment in a VC fund
• Affiliates of Morgan Stanley in connection with the bankruptcy of Anthracite Capital
• Sterling Financial on its $2 billion merger with Umpqua and related divestitures
• XL Group on the establishment of a joint venture with Stone Point Capital
• Bertelsmann on the combination of Random House and Penguin
• Guggenheim on various transactions
• MSCI in its acquisition of IPD Group
• ThyssenKrupp on U.S. aspects of the sale of its stainless steel business

Capital Markets

• Mereo BioPharma on its U.S. listing
• The underwriters on Handicare’s SEK 1 billion IPO
• Boozt on its SEK 1.85 billion IPO
• The underwriters on Deutsche Bank’s:
  • €8.0 billion (2017), €6.7 billion (2014) and €10.2 billion (2010) SEC-registered rights offerings
  • $1.0 billion SEC-registered offering of subordinated Tier 2 notes
  • $1.5 billion SEC-registered offering of additional Tier 1 (AT1) notes
• Scout24 on its €1.2 billion IPO
• The underwriters on Schaeffler’s €938 million IPO
• Tele Columbus on its €367 million IPO and €383 million follow-on offering
• The underwriters on the $476 million SEC-registered IPO, a subsequent $1 billion SEC-registered secondary offering and a $1 billion offering of high-yield bonds of NXP
• SEC-registered notes offerings for AstraZeneca and BBVA (issuer side) and Diageo, Equinor, OeKB and Rio Tinto (underwriters side), totaling more than $35 billion
• Rule 144A notes offerings of Roche and a leading German automobile manufacturer (issuer side) and Yara International (underwriters side), totaling more than $9 billion
• The underwriters on Erste Group's €1.7 billion rights offering
• Julius Baer on the spin off of its asset management business
• HeidelbergCement on its €4.4 billion primary and secondary re-IPO
• Numerous accelerated bookbuild offerings and other private placements

• Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
• Member, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House
• Erasmus Scholar, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, 2002-2003
• Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for International Law, Heidelberg, 2006-2007