Dr. Marc Seeger

My engagement in M&A transactions usually begins well before the kick-off and ends long after the closing. In between, I serve my clients along the way to ensure a successful completion of our project not only as an experienced expert but also as pioneer, sparring partner, trusted advisor, troubleshooter and highly motivated team player.

I have been working in our Frankfurt and Duesseldorf offices since 2020 as a partner in our international Corporate Practice Group. I give advice on M&A transactions, joint ventures, restructuring and corporate law. My work focuses on cross-border M&A transactions for German and international strategic investors. In addition, I have specialised experience in distressed M&A, in sales mandates (including auction procedures) and in advising private equity investors and their portfolio companies.

Before joining our firm, I worked for roughly ten years in the Corporate/M&A departments of two major German law firms in Duesseldorf, and completed a secondment of several months at a global law firm in Boston in the Private Equity Transactions group.

My advisory services particularly focus on M&A transactions in the dynamic industry sectors of technology & communications and retail & consumer as well as on hydrogen-related investments. In the technology & communications sector, it is extremely interesting to guide my clients in investments in future technology. In this way, I learn about technology that will revolutionize our future at an early stage. The retail & consumer sector is in a phase of disruptive change. Supporting my clients in adapting and expanding their business models through M&A transactions is as challenging as it is exciting. Finally, I am very enthusiastic about hydrogen and its future as one of the most important energy carriers of a carbon-neutral future. To advise my clients on investments in this area, explore the awesome growth opportunities with them and contribute to their investments is very thrilling.

My clients regularly praise my ability to put myself in their business issues and problems, my enthusiasm and passion - and last but not least my sense of humour!

• Gerard Daniel Worldwide, a portfolio company of Graycliff Partners, on the acquisition of the knitted mesh & separation business of insolvent Rhodius GmbH
• UNITED Marketing Technologies by DuMont on the acquisition of a 75.1% stake in artegic, a leading Software as a Service provider of real-time marketing automation software.
• Hy24 on its € 70m investment in Berlin based company H2 MOBILITY Deutschland.
• Hy24 and Mirova on their record €200 million investment in green hydrogen pioneer Hy2gen AG.
• Azolver Holding on the sale of all operative subsidiaries to Francotyp-Postalia.
• Peek & Cloppenburg on the acquisition of insolvent Stylebop and on corporate law issues (*Mandate from previous employment with another law firm).
• Elanco on the acquisition of Bayer Animal Health (*Mandate from previous employment with another law firm).
• Waterland and its portfolio companies in numerous M&A transactions in the health care and IT sectors (*Mandate from previous employment with another law firm).
• Atos in acquisitions of business units of Siemens (*Mandate from previous employment with another law firm).
• Gottfried Schultz in the acquisition of further locations from an insolvency administrator (*Mandate from previous employment with another law firm).
• Finnish industrial group on the proposed acquisition of a German industrial group division (*Mandate from previous employment with another law firm).
• French private equity investor on the proposed acquisition of a German fibre optic network operator (*Mandate from previous employment with another law firm).
• US IT group on a joint venture with German insurance group (*Mandate from previous employment with another law firm).
• Caverion on the sale of Krantz and further M&A transactions (*Mandate from previous employment with another law firm).
• E.ON on the sale of its Italian solar, hydro, coal and gas power plants to various investors (*Mandate from previous employment with another law firm).
• Henkel on the sale of its Western European construction chemicals business for professional users to BASF (*Mandate from previous employment with another law firm).
• Primondo on the sale of Madeleine and Peter Hahn to Equistone (*Mandate from previous employment with another law firm).
• Rickmers group on the sale of its ship management activities to a consortium of Zeaborn group and Bertram Rickmers (*Mandate from previous employment with another law firm).
• Trustee of a German wheel manufacturer in the sale to a US investor (*Mandate from previous employment with another law firm).
• Insolvency administrator of Praktiker on the sale of European subsidiaries (*Mandate from previous employment with another law firm).
• Shareholders of Bonner Generalanzeiger group on the sale to Rheinische Post (*Mandate from previous employment with another law firm).