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!

• Contour Design, a portfolio company of Polaris, on the acquisition of the active key business from Cherry
• NürnbergMesse on the acquisition of WEKA Fachmedien as well as on the formation of a joint venture with Messe München for the combination of the two most important international trade fairs for the beverage and liquid food industry
• Index Ventures as lead investor in the $300 million investment round of DeepL, a leading German artificial intelligence company in the field of language technology, with a valuation of $2 billion.
• Eiffel Investment Group on the formation of the joint venture 'Aream Solar Ventures' between aream Group and Eiffel Transition Infrastructure, an investment fund managed by Eiffel Investment Group, to develop solar photovoltaic projects in Germany.
• Founders and shareholders of Sommaire Beauté, a leading distributor of luxury cosmetics and lifestyle brands, on the sale to Dutch Care Cosmetics, a portfolio company of the Belgian investor 3D, and their re-investment.
• 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 with previous law firm)
• Elanco on the acquisition of Bayer Animal Health (*Mandate with previous law firm)
• Waterland and its portfolio companies in numerous M&A transactions in the health care and IT sectors (*Mandate with previous law firm)
• Atos in acquisitions of business units of Siemens (*Mandate with previous law firm)
• French private equity investor on the proposed acquisition of a German fibre optic network operator (*Mandate with previous law firm)
• US IT group on a joint venture with German insurance group (*Mandate with previous law firm)
• Caverion on the sale of Krantz and further M&A transactions (*Mandate with previous law firm)
• E.ON on the sale of its Italian solar, hydro, coal and gas power plants to various investors (*Mandate with previous law firm)
• Henkel on the sale of its Western European construction chemicals business for professional users to BASF (*Mandate with previous law firm)
• Primondo on the sale of Madeleine and Peter Hahn to Equistone (*Mandate with previous law firm)
• Rickmers group on the sale of its ship management activities to a consortium of Zeaborn group and Bertram Rickmers (*Mandate with previous law firm)
• Shareholders of Bonner Generalanzeiger group on the sale to Rheinische Post (*Mandate with previous law firm)