The last year has seen a continuation of its expansion, so that Gleiss Lutz has been able to appoint four new partners ‑ Dr. Stephan Aubel in Frankfurt, Dr. Petra Linsmeier and Dr. Ralf Morshäuser in Munich and Peter Steffen Carl in Berlin.
Dr. Stephan Aubel, who previously spent six years as an in-house lawyer for Dresdner Bank, joined the M&A/corporate department at Gleiss Lutz Frankfurt office in 2003. He focuses on capital markets and stock corporations. He has recently been involved in the IPOs of BAUER, ErSol Solar Energy, MAGIX and primion, for example, and in the combined placement of shares of Q-Cells AG and exchangeable bonds. Stephan Aubel studied at the University of Frankfurt and the University of Pennsylvania (LL.M. 2002).
Dr. Petra Linsmeier has been with the Gleiss Lutz Munich office since it opened in 2001. She specialises in antitrust and assists German and foreign clients in merger control and infringement proceedings before the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office. A further focus of her work is energy regulation. She acts on behalf of grid operators in their dealings with the regulatory bodies and courts. Petra Linsmeier studied in Passau, Prague and Munich.
Dr. Ralf Morshäuser, who has also been with the Gleiss Lutz Munich office since 2001, specialises in M&A and corporate. He has worked on many national and international M&A transactions over recent years, advising the Indian Tata Group, US companies such as Warner, Autodesk and L-3 Communications to name but a few, as well as various private equity companies. Ralf Morshäuser studied in Regensburg and Munich.
Peter Steffen Carl joined the Berlin office in 2001 and specialises in M&A/corporate. He studied in Hamburg and Freiburg and spent several months in 2002/2003 on secondment to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York und London with which Gleiss Lutz has a close cooperation. Lately Peter Steffen Carl has been involved most notably in international transactions such as the takeover of Allied Domecq by Fortune Brands and the acquisition by Kemira Oyj of Lanxess AG’s paper chemicals business.
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