Europe

Mergers & Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year Germany

Firm Profile

With 3,200 staff in 87 fully-integrated offices across Europe, Asia, the US and Latin America Rödl & Partner is a leading professional legal services and auditing as well as advisory firm. The firm’s wide-spread network of offices allows for thorough understanding of the particular local environment. Rödl & Partner continues to expand into up-and-coming markets in line with its clients’ ongoing tendency of developing overseas markets.

This firm has a large team of lawyers, accountants and tax advisers who have particular strengths in tax law and transactions

Dr. Oliver Schmitt

of the international M&A practice group he advises on all corporate and transactional matters. His thorough legal advisory experience comprises numerous cross-border M&A and capital markets law deals. Regularly, he advises German and foreign clients on both outbound and inbound activities.

Dr. Oliver Schmitt, a German and French trained Rechtsanwalt, is the key contact at Rödl & Partner’s Munich office. As a member

Dr. Schmitt attended Sorbonne Panthéon University of Paris and University of Cologne and received a doctor iuris from Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen. He did post-graduate work in France and gained a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies in European law from University of Rennes. Fluent in German, English and French, Dr. Schmitt has also good command of Spanish. In Munich, he oversees a team of several lawyers who handle all aspects of corporate and M&A work.

Notable Legal Work

Investors in the renewable energy industry remain key clients for Rödl & Partner. The lawyers of its Munich office have been advising renewable energy players for almost ten years. This practice’s clients trust the firm for its powerful legal and tax consulting capacity in the fields of solar power, wind energy and geothermics. The last years saw the lawyers of

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Rödl & Partners being consulted in a number of solar park sales and international bidding processes.

Rödl & Partner Munich recently expanded its activities significantly in the fields of capital market law where the team gave advice and support to its clients in issuing bonds and capital increases.

Other mandates included advisory work on initial funding and follow-up financing rounds for venture capitalists and private equity funds as well.

Regularly, Rödl & Partner advise ramified family enterprises on domestic and cross-border strategic restructuring schemes.

Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2012

in the manufacturing and industry-related services sector, and counts significant family-owned and mid-sized companies both private and listed amongst its client base. Rödl & Partner enjoys an outstanding reputation among this clientele for delivering high-level, multi-disciplinary yet cost-worthy advice on both domestic and ross-border matters.

In the decade or so of its existence Rödl & Partner’s Munich based legal advisory team has truly established itself as market leading law firm with national visibility.

Areas of Expertise

• National and International Mergers & Acquisitions

• Strategic Restructurings • Corporate Governance

• Private Equity and Venture Capital Transactions

• Equity/Debt Financing Including Mezzanine Financing

• Capital Markets Law • Securities Offerings, Including IPOs • Project Finance

Contact:

Dr. Oliver Schmitt D.E.A. (Rennes I) Rödl Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH Denninger Straße 84 D-81925 Munich Germany

Phone: +49 89 928780 311 Fax: +49 89 928780 333 Email: oliver.schmitt@roedl.com Website: www.roedl.com