Virtual Briefing: An outlook on LBO financing in Germany
Join this virtual event for an outlook on private equity dealflow and debt financing trends in Germany in 2021.
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Steffen Schellschmidt is a partner in the Frankfurt office of Clifford Chance, specializing in syndicated lending transactions including acquisition finance, corporate finance and debt restructurings.
His practice spans domestic and cross-border work, advising a broad range of debt and private equity funds as well as banks and corporates. Next to his law degree, Steffen is also a banker by trade and holds a business degree.
Andreas Bösenberg has been active in the international private equity industry for more than 20 years. He started his career at 3i. Since 2000 he was responsible for leading and setting up various private equity investment teams in the small-mid market segment and was jointly responsible for over Euro 2bn of invested capital in Europe. Also, he successfully assisted many portfolio companies during their transformation and growth phase and exited several of them in international IPOs and trade sales. In May 2018 Andreas was appointed as managing director of NORD Holding an asset manager with over 2bn Euro of AUM where he focuses on transformational investments in the German speaking region with a sector specific sourcing approach.
Ekaterina (Katja) has worked for Rothschild & Co for more than 10 years after joining the Group in July 2005. Today she is Managing Director and Co-Head of the Debt Advisory and Restructuring team based in Frankfurt and is responsible for the DACH region. Katja has advised a large number of Private Equity as well as German and international corporate clients on debt structuring questions across a variety of different sectors and geographies.
Katja has started her career with Leonardo & Co. (today Houlihan Lokey) where she spent around four years advising clients on international M&A assignments. She then moved to Rothschild & Co’s German office and also spent one year in the London healthcare team.
Katja studied business administration majoring in finance management and controlling at Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Escuela de Administración de Empresas (E.A.E.), Spain and St.-Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, Russia.
Hans is a Partner at Ambienta. He leads Ambienta in the DACH region and is based in Düsseldorf. He joined Ambienta in 2020, bringing over 15 years of private equity experience.
Prior to Ambienta, Hans was a Senior Partner at BC Partners, a leading alternative investment firm with deep roots across Europe. He started his professional career at Goldman Sachs and The Boston Consulting Group.
Hans holds a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
He speaks German (native) and English (fluent).
Johannes Koch heads up Debtwire's coverage of German, Austrian and Swiss leveraged buyouts. Koch joined Debtwire after three years of freelancing for various trade publications. Prior to that he was a reporter at Bloomberg covering big pharma and spearheaded coverage of Bayer's $66 billion acquisition of Monsanto. Koch has been a business journalist for over a decade and has authored two books on journalism.