Dr. Ulrike Binder

• Advised DBAG on its acquisition of akquinet and two data processing centers.
• Advised Lear Corporation on acquisition of Kongsberg Automotive’s Interior Comfort Systems Business Unit.
• Advised Lange-HANSA-Holding and ULM Management on the sale of HANSA-HEEMANN to Refresco.
• Advised Sixth Street Specialty Lending’s European business in connection with the public takeover offer and acquisition of shares in EASY SOFTWARE AG by deltus 36. AG, a holding company controlled by funds of Battery Ventures. EASY SOFTWARE AG is a German developer of software solutions for electronic archiving and document management systems.
• Advised Hauck & Aufhäuser Privatbankiers AG on the acquisition of Bankhaus Lampe KG from the Oetker Group. The closing of the transaction is subject to the approval of the regulatory authorities.
• Advised WiseTech Global, a leading developer and provider of software solutions to the logistics execution industry globally, on its public tender offer for shares in Softship AG, a leading provider of software solutions and related services to the international liner shipping sector, and subsequently on the squeeze-out of the minority shareholders in Softship AG.
• Advised Beijing Enterprises Holdings Limited on the acquisition of EEW Energy from Waste GmbH from Swedish investor EQT for a purchase price of approximately EUR 1.4 billion. This acquisition was until then the largest M&A transaction of a Chinese company in Germany.
• Advised Publicis Group, a global advertising service provider, on the squeeze-out of the minority shareholders of Pixelpark AG.
• Advised Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited (ICBC Asia) on its financing of three bidders in making a joint public takeover offer – together with an indirect subsidiary of Aviation Industry Corporation of China, Beijing, China (AVIC), a PRC state-owned company – for the shares of Frankfurt listed KHD Humboldt Wedag International AG, a German industrial-plant builder, with an amount of EUR 197.8 million. This was the first public takeover by a Chinese state-owned enterprise in Germany.
• Advised Citigroup Alternative Investments LLC in relation to the IPO of Deutsche Annington on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
• Represented a leading European tissue producer on its inaugural EUR 275 million offering of senior secured (high-yield) notes pursuant to Regulation S and Rule 144A and on the listing of the notes on the Euro MTF market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.
• Advised Hanergy Holding Group Limited, China’s largest privately-owned clean-energy developer, on its acquisition of Solibro GmbH from the insolvent solar company Q-Cells SE. Solibro is a manufacturer of thin film solar modules based on copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) technology.
• Advised the Indian-Arab solar cell producer Microsol on the acquisition of key assets from the insolvent German solar company Solon SE and its subsidiaries. Previously already advised Microsol in the planned investment into Solon SE before the opening of insolvency proceedings.
• Advised Indigo Capital on its takeover and majority acquisition of W.E.T. Automotive Systems AG listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and in connection with the subsequent sale of the shares.
• Advised Lone Star on the acquisition of the German bank IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG and continuously advises Lone Star with respect to the shareholding in IKB bank.
• Advised Solar-Fabrik AG, a manufacturer of solar technology, listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Prime Standard segment), in connection with a rights offering, a public offering in Germany and a private placement in the rest of Europe, as well as on an on-going basis with regard to questions surrounding the public listing.
• Advised various bidders and targets in public takeover transactions, including companies in the solar industry.
• Advised EADS Deutschland GmbH on the contribution of their Naval-Electronics business to Atlas Elektronik GmbH, a joint venture of EADS and Thyssen-Krupp Technologies AG.

Second State Law Examination (bar exam)
Berlin, 1998

Legal Clerkship (Referendariat)
Berlin, Buenos Aires

Doctor's degree (PhD in law), University of Freiburg im Breisgau

First State Law Examination
Freiburg im Breisgau

University of Freiburg im Breisgau
 

Barreau

• Frankfurt am Main, Germany

• DVFA (Society of Investment Professionals): member of the expert group “Fairness Opinions” and member of the expert group “Corporate Transactions and Valuation“