Karsten Wöckener

adidas
Advised a consortium of banks on a bond issue by adidas AG with a total volume of EUR 1 billion, issued in two bonds with a nominal amount of EUR 500 each.

Adler Group
Advised Adler Group S.A. on a recapitalization of up to EUR 937.5 million and amendment of the terms and conditions of various bonds issued by Adler Group S.A. with an aggregate nominal amount of EUR 3.2 billion.

Advised Adler Group S.A. and its subsidiary Adler Real Estate AG on a tender offer and consent solicitation for Adler RE's EUR 300 million outstanding senior secured notes due 2024.

Aggregate
Advised Aggregate Holdings S.A. on the issuance of notes in the amount of EUR 400 million. The transaction combined both, an offer to new investors to subscribe for the notes and an exchange offer to investors in Aggregate's existing EUR 350 million notes.

Berlin Hyp
Advised the joint lead managers and the co-lead manager on the issue of the debut Sustainability-linked bond issue by Berlin Hyp AG in the aggregate principal amount of EUR 500 million.

Bitpanda
Advised Austrian fintech Bitpanda on the expansion of its product portfolio to include Bitpanda Bitcoin ETC, on the structuring and implementation process, on the approval and notification by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority as well as on regulatory, commercial, corporate and tax aspects.

Brenntag
Advised Brenntag SE on its debut Schuldschein transaction. The EUR 390 million and USD 250 million transaction consists of several tranches with different maturity profiles, interest rates and currencies.

Ceconomy
Advised the joint bookrunners on the issuance of an inaugural bond issued by Ceconomy AG with an aggregate principal amount of EUR 500 million.

CVA
Advised Morgan Stanley Bank AG as arranger on the EUR 250 million Schuldschein transaction of Compagnia Valdostana delle Acque - Compagnie Valdôtaine des Eaux S.p.A. (CVA). CVA is a renewable energy company based in the Valle d'Aosta region, Italy. The transaction consists of two floating-rate Schuldschein tranches with terms of five and seven years.

Consus Real Estate 
Advised Consus Real Estate AG with respect to its debut convertible bond with a total volume of EUR 200 million.

Continental
Advised the joint bookrunners on a EUR 500 million bond issue by Continental AG.

Covestro
Advised the joint lead managers on Covestro AG's issue of bonds with an aggregate principal amount of EUR 500 million.

Deutsche Börse
Advised a bank syndicate on a EUR 3 billion bond issuance by Deutsche Börse AG. The issuance is split in three tranches. The notes are represented by central register securities pursuant to the German Act on Electronic Securities (Gesetz über elektronische Wertpapiere). This is the first public issuance of central register securities using the D7 platform.

Deutsche Lufthansa
Advised Deutsche Lufthansa AG on the issuance in two tranches of notes with a principal amount of EUR 1.5 billion. The first tranche has a principal amount of EUR 600 million and the second tranche has a principal amount of EUR 900 million.

Advised Deutsche Lufthansa AG with regard to a EUR 150,000,000 Schuldschein loan agreement.

DIC Asset
Advised the joint bookrunners on the issuance of a EUR 400 million green bond by DIC Asset AG.

Advised DIC Asset AG on a further issuance of sustainability-linked promissory notes (Schuldscheindarlehen) with a volume of EUR 100 million. In April 2021 we advised DIC Asset AG on its first issuance of sustainability-linked promissory notes (Schuldscheindarlehen) with a volume of EUR 250 million.

D.V.I.
Advised German real estate company D.V.I. Deutsche Vermögens- und Immobilienverwaltungs GmbH on all capital markets and corporate law aspects of the issuance of its EUR 350 million debut bond.

Elkem
Advised the arrangers NATIXIS and SEB on Elkem ASA's EUR 200 million Schuldschein transaction. The transaction consists of four floating-rate Schuldschein tranches with terms of four and six years.

EnBW Group
Advised EnBW Group on the issuance of two tranches of notes with an aggregate principal amount of €1.5 billion.

Advised EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG on its debut Schuldschein transaction. The EUR 500 million transaction consists of several tranches with different maturity profiles.

Advised EnBW Group on the issuance of Green Bonds with a principal amount of EUR 1 billion, issued in two tranches of EUR 500 million each and guaranteed by EnBW Baden-Württemberg AG.

E.ON
Advised E.ON SE on the issuance of notes with an aggregate principal amount of EUR 1.8 billion, divided into two tranches, the second tranche of which has been issued as "green bonds" according to the "Green Bond Framework" of E.ON SE.

ETC Group
Advised ETC Group on the expansion of its product portfolio to include the first cryptocurrency linked exchange-traded commodity (ETC) based on an index provided by MSCI Inc. in an aggregate amount of up to 250,000,000 bonds issued pursuant to its Programme for the issuance of Bonds secured by Cryptocurrencies.

Eurogrid
Advised Eurogrid on the debut issuance Green Bonds with a total value of EUR 750 million.

Evonik
Advised Evonik Industries AG on its first green hybrid bond issue with a volume of EUR 500 million and a concurrent tender offer relating to its outstanding EUR 500 million Subordinated Resettable Fixed Rate Notes due 2077 issued in 2017, which was the first issuance of a hybrid bond by Evonik Industries AG.

Federal Republic of Germany
Advised the Federal Republic of Germany on the first issue of a EUR 6.5 billion Green Federal Bond.

Advised the Federal Republic of Germany on the issue of EUR 7.5 billion fixed rate bonds.

Advised a syndicate of banks on a EUR 4.5 billion Green Federal bond issued by the Federal Republic of Germany.

Advised a syndicate of banks on a EUR 5.25 billion Green Federal bond issued by the Federal Republic of Germany.

Advised a syndicate of banks on the tap issue of a bond of the Federal Republic of Germany with a principal amount of EUR 3 billion. The total principal amount of the bond is EUR 22.5 billion.

Fidelity
Advised Fidelity International on the expansion of its product portfolio to include Fidelity Physical Bitcoin ETP, on the structuring and implementation process, approval and notification by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, and on regulatory, commercial, corporate and tax aspects.

Gewobag
Advised the joint bookrunners on the issuance of the debut social bond issued by Gewobag Wohnungsbau-Aktiengesellschaft Berlin for the aggregate principal amount of EUR 500 million.

Hapag-Llyod
Advised Hapag-Lloyd AG on the issuance of a sustainability-linked high yield bond with a volume of EUR 300 million.

Helaba
Advised a banking syndicate on the issuance of the first Green Bond issued by Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale in a principal amount of EUR 500 million.

JAB Holdings
Advised the joint bookrunners with regard to the sustainability-linked bond issue by JAB Holdings B.V. in the aggregate principal amount of EUR 500 million, guaranteed by JAB Holding Company S.à r.l.

LBBW
Advised Landesbank Baden-Württemberg on a EUR 1 billion Social bond issued under its debt issuance programme.

Advised Landesbank Baden-Württemberg as issuer with regard to the issuance of EUR 750 million Additional Tier 1 Notes.

OMV
Advised the global coordinators and the bookrunners on the issue of hybrid bonds by OMV Aktiengesellschaft in the amount of EUR 1.25 billion.

Piaggio
Advised Piaggio & C. S.p.A. in connection with a total of seven Schuldschein loan agreements with a total volume of EUR 115 million between Piaggio & C. S.p.A. as borrower and UniCredit Bank AG as lender.

SC STEELCOIN GmbH
Advised SC STEELCOIN GmbH, a company of the Austrian Frankstahl Group, on the expansion of its product portfolio to include a steel exchange-traded product (ETP).

Siemens Energy
Advised the managers on the first issuances of a dual-tranche of green bonds by Siemens Energy Finance B.V. The two tranches have a principal amount of EUR 1.5 billion and are guaranteed by Siemens Energy AG.

SIGNA
Advised the joint bookrunners on real estate developer SIGNA Development Selection's issuance of a EUR 300 million unsecured green bond.

UniCredit 
Advised a consortium of banks on the EUR 13 billion rights offering of UniCredit S.p.A.

Advised UniCredit Bank AG as issuer on the issuance of two Additional Tier 1 bonds in the amount of EUR 7 billion and EUR 700 million.

Valeo
Advised Valeo SE on its EUR 266 million Schuldschein transaction. The transaction consists of several tranches with different maturity profiles and is divided into three fixed-rate and two floating-rate Schuldschein tranches with terms between three and seven years. Three tranches include an innovative ESG-KPI-linked structure.

Verbund
Advised VERBUND AG on its issuance of innovative green and sustainability-linked notes with a volume of EUR 500 million.

Vonovia
Advised the Joint Lead Managers on the issue by Vonovia SE of one social bond and one green bond with an aggregate principal amount of EU 1.5 billion.

Vossloh
Advised the managers on a EUR 150 million debut ESG-linked hybrid bond issued by Vossloh AG.