Martin Ulbrich

Martin is an M&A lawyer. His practice focuses on national and international M&A.

Martin advises corporate clients, private equity investors and family-owned enterprises in diverse transaction structures, including private auctions, public take-overs, dual-track transactions, carve-outs, joint ventures and co-investments.

Martin has recently advised, among others, on the following transactions:

• adidas on the sale of Reebok to ABG

• Asterion Industrial Partners / STEAG Iqony on acquisition of Uniper Fernwärme

• Bayer on the carve-out and sale of the Environmental Science Professional Business to Cinven

• Corsair Capital on

  • acquisition of IDnow

  • investment in Ariadnext

• Dr. August Oetker on the acquisition of flaschenpost SE from various sponsors

• E.ON on the carve-out and sale of innogy’s Czech electricity and gas retail business to MVM Group

• EQT on the sale of CBR Group to Alteri

• GHO Capital on the acquisition of FotoFinder

• Groupe PSA/Stellantis on the carve-out and sale of part of the International Technology Development Center of Opel to Segula

• Haniel on the sale of Celesio to McKesson

• innogy on the sale of a stake in VSEH to RWE

• KKR on

  • acquisition of global defense electronics business (now HENSOLDT) from Airbus, incl. carve-out, and staggered exit through IPO, sale to KfW and sale to Leonardo;

  • acquisition of Contabo;

  • Vantage Towers partnership;

  • public takeover offer for OHB SE;

  • investment in DATAGROUP SE

• LANXESS on

  • engineering materials joint venture with Advent;

  • sale of Urethane business to UBE Corporation

• Moonlake Capital on acquisition of ADA

• OptiGroup on sale of Papyrus Germany to Inapa

• Paragon on

  • sale of UNICEPTA to Stagwell;

  • sale of participation in Apontis to Zentiva (Advent);

  • acquisition of DYMATRIX

• Robert Bosch on acquisition of stake in HERE International from Audi, BMW and Daimler

• RWE on

  • sale of RWE Dea AG to LetterOne Group;

  • acquisition of the clean energy business of Con Edison

• Silver Lake on

  • investment in FlixMobility;

  • public takeover offer for Software AG

• Software AG on sale of webmethods and streamsets to IBM

• UCB on carve-out and sale of internal medicine to Paragon Partners

• Vodafone on acquisition of Unitymedia from Liberty Global

• Wellhub on acquisition of Urban Sports Club

Martin also advises on matters of corporate law, in particular reorganisations, for example METRO GROUP on the demerger of its wholesale & food business.