Mergers and Acquisitions

• Reliance Industries Limited in connection with:
  • The establishment of its 51%/49% joint venture with BP relating to their petroleum retail business in India
  • An unprecedented series of capital raisings for Jio Platforms Limited totaling over $10 billion from world leading strategic and financial investors including Google, PIF, Mubadala, ADIA, TPG, Intel and Qualcomm
  • Its agreement to acquire wireless infrastructure assets from Reliance Communications
• Celonis on its acquisition of Integromat
• Mereo BioPharma on its combination with OncoMed Pharmaceuticals
• 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
  • Sale of its interest in Afghan telecom operator Roshan to AKFED
• Technip on its $17 billion business combination with FMC Technologies
• Bertelsmann in connection with its Penguin Random House venture with Pearson
• XL Group on the establishment of a joint venture with Stone Point Capital
• 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
• MSCI in its acquisition of IPD Group
• ThyssenKrupp on U.S. aspects of the sale of its stainless steel business

Capital Markets

Equity

• Centogene on its IPO and U.S. listing and its primary and secondary follow-on transaction
• Mereo BioPharma on its U.S. listing
• The underwriters on Handicare’s SEK 1 billion IPO
• The underwriters on CEVA Logistics’ CHF 1.1 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
• 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 NXP’s $476 million SEC-registered IPO and a $1 billion SEC-registered secondary follow-on offering
• 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

Debt

• The underwriters on SEC-registered offerings of regulatory capital by Deutsche Bank:
  • $1.25 (2020) and $1.5 billion (2014) additional Tier 1 (AT1) notes
  • $500 million (2020) and $1.0 billion (2017) subordinated Tier 2 notes
• SEC-registered notes offerings for AstraZeneca and BBVA (issuer side) and Diageo, Equinor, Linde, OeKB and Rio Tinto (underwriters side), totaling more than $49 billion
• Rule 144A notes offerings of Roche and a leading German automobile manufacturer (issuer side) and Crédit Agricole, Fresenius Medical Care, NXP and Yara International (underwriters side), totaling more than $25 billion

• 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