Michael Kohl,
Partner

+49 (0)30 755 424 00
Michael Kohl,
Partner
Tel: +49 (0)30 755 424 00
Mobile: +49 (0)151 1262 37 94

lindenpartners – since 2021

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP – 2007 to 2021

Broich Bezzenberger – 2006 to 2007

Lovells – 2002 to 2006

Research fellow Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), European University Institute, Florenz, und University of California, Berkeley

Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main

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  • {01}Banking / Payments
    ESG Rating
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  • {02}Corporate / M&A
    Alternative Financing (Profit Participation Instruments, Silent Partnership)
    ESG in financing contracts
    Post-M&A- and Post-Exit-Litigation
    Private Equity
    Shareholder Agreements
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  • {03}Corporate Finance / Restructuring
    Acquisition Financing (LMA and local documentation)
    Amend and Extend and Standstill Negotiations
    Asset Based Lending
    Bonds
    Capital Markets Compliance
    Commodity Trade Financing
    Corporate Derivatives / Hedging Activities
    Credit Restructuring outside and through Insolvency Proceedings
    Debt Recovery Litigation
    Debt Sales and Purchases (LMA and local)
    Debt-to-Equity Swap
    Factoring Financing
    Forfaitierung
    Green bonds
    Hedging Contracts (ISDA and German Master Agreement)
    Insolvency Litigation and Claw Back Litigation
    Lending-related Banking Supervisory Law
    Lending-related Fund Regulation
    Loan-/ Bond-Collateralisation
    Pre-insolvency Shareholder and/or Manager Liability
    Promissory Note (Schuldschein) Loans
    Real Estate Financing
    Genehmigungspflichten Kreditgeschäft (Lending)/Kreditverwaltung und Sicherheitenverwahrung
    Sale und Lease Back Financing
    Security Enforcement or Defence
    Sustainability linked Bonds/Loans
    Syndicated Corporate Debt
    Unitranche und Private Debt
    Venture Debt Financing
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  • {04}Dispute Resolution
    Credit Agreement Disputes and Collateral Disputes
    Insolvency Disputes
    Post-M&A- and Post-Exit-Litigation
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  • {05}Real Estate
    ESG-related financing
    Real Estate Financing
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Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers
Germany's Best Lawyers 2023: Banking and Finance
News > Deals

01 lindenpartners advises Urban Sports Club on financing round of more than 95 million euros and entry of growth investor Verdane

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News > Deals

02 lindenpartners advises UB Forest Industry Green Growth Fund I LP and SWEN Capital Partners’ Blue Ocean fund on EUR 36.6m financing round in sustainability startup traceless materials

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News > Awards

03 Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers Ranking – lindenpartners erneut unter Deutschlands besten Anwälten

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References

Advising INVISION AG advised private equity fund INVISION VI on acquisition financing provided by a bank & debt funds club for the acquisition of the Austrian-German eduPRO Group

Advising Trading Hub Europe GmbH (THE) on a billion-dollar loan from KfW on the occasion of Russia’s attack on Ukraine to finance new tasks of THE to ensure minimum filling levels of gas storage facilities, LINK

Invision AG on acquisition financing for the acquisition of Reichelt Elektronik Group

Urban Sports Club on venture debt financing

KME Group on the approx. € 1 billion group financing consisting of high yield bond, syndicated bank financing (borrowing base) and factoring

Banco Santander on the syndicated acquisition financing for the acquisition of Infrareal Group by Gelsenwasser and Swiss Life Infrastructure

Advising Deutsche Bank AG on workout (including potential enforcement scenarios), sale process to co-investor and refinancing of portfolio real estate financing (approx. €800 million) of ATU Werkstätten real estate portfolio

Busch Group on financing of public takeover offer for Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG

Penta Investment on investment in WDI Group

SVP, Oak Hill and TPG Credit on the restructuring of Pfleiderer Group

Semper Constantia on crisis financing of Praktiker Group* in previous law firm

Publications

Kommentar zum Kreditwesengesetz Schwennicke/Auerbach 1.-4. C.H.BECK (2020)

Holding location Luxembourg – Luxembourg law both as an opportunity and a potential risk for investors, in FYB Financial Yearbook 2011 Private Equity Germany (2011)

Constitutional limits to anticompetitive regulation: the principle of proportionality, in Giuliano Amato / Laraine L. Laudati (Hrsg.): The Anticompetitive Impact of Regulation (2001)

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