Dr. Hans-Georg Schulze
Biography
Overview
Hans-Georg Schulze advises clients in the area of Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate and Commercial. His expertise focuses on the advice of complex strategic domestic and cross-border M&A transactions as well as on joint ventures and strategic carve-outs.
In recent years, he advised in particular clients with business in the automobile, energy and technology sector. As a partner in the Berlin office, he is also active in the Private Equity and Venture Capital sector. He served several times as panel member for start-up investment contests, inter alia the European Venture Contest.
Before joining White & Case, he worked nine years for leading law firms in Berlin, Frankfurt, London and Paris where he occupied the French desk.
Hans-Georg Schulze teaches Mergers & Acquisitions at the university of Leipzig for the Master of International Energy Economics and Business Administration program.
Experience
Oaktree/Cornerstone
Advised Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. (Oaktree) and Cornerstone Investment Management L.P. (Cornerstone) on the sale of Avenga to KKCG, a European investment and innovation group.
Zynga
Advised Zynga on its acquisition of the Turkish mobile game developer Peak for USD 1.8 billion.
EWE AG
Advised EWE AG and the Ems-Weser-Elbe Versorgungs- und Entsorgungsverband (EWE-Verband) on the sale of 26% of the shares in EWE AG to infrastructure investor ARDIAN.
Leading European energy provider
Advised a leading European energy provider on various corporate compliance matters.
DIC Corp
Advised DIC Corp., a Japanese fine chemicals company, and its US subsidiary Sun Chemical Corp., on DIC's proposed acquisition of BASF's global pigments business, known as BASF Colors & Effects (BCE). The purchase price on a cash and debt-free basis is 1.15 billion Euro.
Basalt Infrastructure Partners
Advised Basalt Infrastructure Partners on its acquisition of bn:t Blatzheim Networks Telecom GmbH and SOCO Network Solutions GmbH, full-service telecommunications providers based in Germany.
Goldman Sachs
Advised Goldman Sachs on its acquisition of a stake in Jumia AG becoming therewith an unicorn, an e-commerce platform for the African market.
Mid Europe Partners
Advised Mid Europe Partners on its acquisition of the intive group, a leading digital transformation service provider.
InDriver
Advised the Russian start-up InDriver on its worldwide expansion.
Shareholders of VI-grade
Advised the shareholders of VI-grade on their exit and the sale of their shares to the Spectris group.
SPIE S.A.
Advised SPIE S.A. on sale of a part of its German offshore business to the Boskalis group.
Introduction of a delegation system to avoid risks of civil and criminal liability for managers, NJW, p. 3484-3488, 2014
Legal challenges for the car sharing business, BB, p. 195-202, 2013
Federal Court of Justice – Formal requirements for the publication of reports of the German supervisory board (BGH, decision of 21 June 2010 II ZR 24/09) In: BB, p. 212, 2011
(Dis)appearance of the Mac clause. In: IFLR, Section for Germany, 1 March 2011, co-author with Ralf Thaeter
Hans-Georg: Transactions between a company and its board members – A legal comparison between the laws of England, France and Germany, Vol. 29, Series on Corporate and Capital Markets Law, 2010
Best Lawyer Germany in Energy Law, Handelsblatt 2021-2023
Highly Recommend Lawyer, Best Lawyers/Handelsblatt 2020
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