In August 2011 US firm Mayer Brown announced plans to shut down its Cologne and Berlin operations and relocate staff from both offices to Düsseldorf for the beginning of 2012. The firm is led by managing partner Jörg Wulfken....
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In August 2011 US firm Mayer Brown announced plans to shut down its Cologne and Berlin operations and relocate staff from both offices to Düsseldorf for the beginning of 2012. The firm is led by managing partner Jörg Wulfken.
Ulrike Binder and Stephan Gittermann head up the firm's equity capital markets practice, which has advised on two notable capital increases in the last 12 months. The team acted for the majority shareholder of Procon Multimedia in a deal which closed in November 2010 and is also advising the lead manager of a capital increase for a German company.
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US firm Mayer Brown's German securitisation practice focuses on trade receivables, auto loan, auto lease and consumer loan securitisations. The firm also advices on bank balance sheet funded trade receivables and factoring transactions....
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US firm Mayer Brown's German securitisation practice focuses on trade receivables, auto loan, auto lease and consumer loan securitisations. The firm also advices on bank balance sheet funded trade receivables and factoring transactions.
A key deal for the firm, the Smurfit Kappa trade receivables securitisation, was shortlisted for the International Financial Law Review's European Structured Finance deal of the year for 2011. Proceeds of the €250 million five year trade receivables programme, which closed in November 2010, were used to refinance the group's existing €210 million securitisation programme, which matured in September 2011, and will help repay its bank debt.
The largest deal in which the firm was involved in the last 12 months was the securitisation of €430 million in German consumer loans held by its client Santander Consumer Bank, which closed April 2011.
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The highlight role for Mayer Brown's banking practice in the last 12 months was advising Depfa Bank a subsidiary of Hypo Real Estate, which after receiving substantial state aid during the crisis had to transfer loans, structured securities and derivatives totaling about €173 billion.
The firm advised Halder on the financing of its acquisition of the majority shares of Gealan Group through a management buy-out by AXA Private Equity....
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The highlight role for Mayer Brown's banking practice in the last 12 months was advising Depfa Bank a subsidiary of Hypo Real Estate, which after receiving substantial state aid during the crisis had to transfer loans, structured securities and derivatives totaling about €173 billion.
The firm advised Halder on the financing of its acquisition of the majority shares of Gealan Group through a management buy-out by AXA Private Equity.
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As part of the Lehman Brothers insolvency Mayer Brown acted for KPMG, the liquidators of several Lehman Brothers subsidiaries in Asia, with practice head Marco Wilhelm advising on the €250 million matter of LB Bankhaus.
Elsewhere, the firm acted for the mezzanine A lenders to real estate joint venture Highstreet in relation to its debt restructuring....
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As part of the Lehman Brothers insolvency Mayer Brown acted for KPMG, the liquidators of several Lehman Brothers subsidiaries in Asia, with practice head Marco Wilhelm advising on the €250 million matter of LB Bankhaus.
Elsewhere, the firm acted for the mezzanine A lenders to real estate joint venture Highstreet in relation to its debt restructuring.
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