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About Dr. Nikolaus Bunting
Nikolaus Bunting is Principal Asscoiate in our Global Transactions Group
Nikolaus regularly advises listed companies in matters of general corporate, corporate governance and capital markets law as well as in corporate finance and M&A transactions.
Nikolaus speaks German and English.
Recent work
Advising Warbrug Pincus on the sale of 7 m shares in IONOS SE (€ 150 m)
Advising Merck KGaA on the issuance of a hybrid bond (€ 800 m)
Advising BASF on merger of Wintershall Dea and Harbour Energy (€ 11.2 bn)
Advising DAX company on tender offer for two hybrid bonds (€ 275 m)
Advising REWE Group on issuance of sustainability linked bonds (€ 900 m)
Advising consortium of banks on issuance of bonds of Sartorius AG (€ 3.0 bn)
Advising SUSE S.A. on voluntary takeover offer by EQT and delisting of the company
Advising Continental AG on bond issue under EMTN programme (€ 750 m)
Advising consortium of banks on cash capital increase of Gerresheimer AG via accelerated bookbuilding (€ 270 m)
Advising Siemens Energy AG on cash capital increase via accelerated bookbuilding (€ 1.25 bn)
Advising consortium of banks on issuance of convertible bond (€ 1.0 bn) and buyback of convertible bonds (€ 750 m) for Delivery Hero SE.
Advising consortium of banks of IPO of IONOS Group SE
Advising RWE on financing of acquisition of Con Edison Clean Energy Businesses and issuance of mandatory convertible bond (€ 2.4 bn)
Advising Siemens Energy AG on the issuance of a mandatory convertible bond via accelerated bookbuilding (€ 960 m)
Advising DAX company on tender offer for two hybrid bonds (€ 250 m)
Advising Siemens Energy AG on takeover offer for Siemens Gamesa (€ 4.0 bn)
Advising DAX company on bond issue under EMTN programme (€ 500 m)
Advising Vonovia SE on capital increase with public subscription offer (€ 8.0 bn)
Adivising consortiums of banks on Lufthansa AG's capital increase with public subscription offer (€ 2.1 bn)
Advising consortium of banks on Delivery Hero SE's issuance of two convertible bonds via accelerated bookbuilding (€ 1.25 bn)
Advising Deutsche Telekom AG on investment agreement with SoftBank and the planned increase of shares in T-Mobile US by way of a capital increase through contributions in kind (€ 5.0 bn)
Advising EQT and SUSE S.A. on the initial public offering (IPO) of SUSE S.A. (€ 1.1 bn)
Advising Permira on the sale of over 13 m shares in TeamViewer AG (€ 587 m)
Advising consortium of banks on Delivery Hero SE's cash capital increase via accelerated bookbuilding (€ 1.2 bn)
Advising consortium of banks on QIAGEN's issuance of a convertible bond via accelerated bookbuilding (USD 500 m) and on the repurchase of bonds (USD 170 m)
Advising Permira on the sale of 22 m shares in TeamViewer AG (€ 930 m)
Advising UniCredit Bank AG on the listing of shares of Delivery Hero SE from capital increase against contribution in kind and conditional capital
Advising Dürr AG on the issuance of a convertible bond via accelerated bookbuilding (€ 150 m)
Advising RWE AG on cash capital increase via accelerated bookbuilding (€ 2.0 bn)
Advising Zalando SE on the issuance of two convertible bonds via accelerated bookbuilding (€ 1.0 bn)
Advising consortium of banks on Delivery Hero SE's issuance of two convertible bonds via accelerated bookbuilding (€ 1.5 bn)
Advising DAX company on establishment of € 8.0 bn EMTN Programme and the following indirect bond issuance (above € 2.5 bn)
Advising Blackstone and Hellman & Friedmann on the sale of investments in Scout24 AG (€ 348.4 m)
Advising Infineon Technologies AG on cash capital increase via accelerated bookbuilding (€ 1.545 bn)
Advising Lloyd Fonds AG on the acquisition of SPSW Capital GmbH
Advising Vonovia SE on cash capital increase via accelerated bookbuilding (€ 744 m)
Advising Vonovia SE on the sale of investments in Deutsche Wohnen SE (€ 733.2 m)
Advising Merck KGaA on the spin-off of its operational German business units into three subsidiaries
Advising HOCHTIEF AG in connection with the takeover bid on Abertis Infraestructuras SA
Advising PUMA SE on its separation from Kering SA (€3.9 bn)
Advising Amadeus on public delisting offer for i:FAO
Advising a German Public Listed Company on a public subscription offer of a convertible bond
Advising a German Public Listed Company on a capital increase through a public subscription offer
Advising a German Public Listed Company on the restructuring of convertible bonds by majority resolution of the bondholders
Qualifications
Education
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Studies of Law
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, phD (Dr. iur.)
Higher Regional Court Frankfurt am Main, legal clerkship
Attorney-at-law
Teaching & Research Activities
Research Assitant at the Institute for Civil and Commercial Law, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Chair of Professor Dr. Dres. h.c. Theodor Baums)
Guest Lecturer Université Lyon 2 (France, Lyon)
Lecturer Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Visiting Researcher at Oxford University, Institute of Comparative Company Law
Visiting Researcher Yale University, USA, Yale Law School