DLA Piper advises companies, including various German medium-sized companies, on planned IPOs, private placements, capital increases, share buyback programs and, most recently, increasingly on public takeovers. For international transactions with a US connection, such as SPAC projects, the group cooperates with its US colleagues in London. With practice head Roland Maaß, the practice also houses expertise in various ECM-adjacent areas, such as M&A, stock corporation law, corporate reorganisations and capital market compliance.
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  • 'Very competent, always solution-oriented and helpful.'
  • 'Absolute commitment; allows me to understand very complex legal aspects of a matter immediately; available 24/7 and always trying; good background team of legal experts also in the US and UK for various country specific questions one may have as an international company.'
  • 'Personal contact; 100% success rate in everything we have done together; humble and down-to-earth lawyers who have a very friendly advisory approach.'
  • 'DLA's lawyers in this area have superior expertise and experience, are hands-on and solution-oriented and respond quickly without losing sight of accuracy.'
  • 'Roland Maaß is great.'

Kernmandanten

  • Aonic SB
  • VARTA AG
  • exceet Group SCA
  • Montana Tech Components AG
  • Voltabox

Highlight-Mandate

  • Advising gaming group Aonic on the issuance of its first secured Nordic Bonds for a total amount of €70 million.
  • Advising VARTA AG on a capital increase from authorised capital with exclusion of subscription rights. The issue of 2.22 million new shares generated gross proceeds of around €51 million.
  • Advising exceet on the admission of new shares to the regulated market (Prime Standard market segment) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The admission was based on a securities prospectus approved by the Luxembourg financial supervisory authority Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), which was notified to BaFin due to exceet's stock exchange listing in Germany.

Anwält*innen

Praxisleitung

Roland Maaß

Weitere Kernanwält*innen

Andreas Füchsel; Kerstin Schnabel