Career

Studies of law at Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena and University of Technology of Dresden. Clerkship in Dresden und San Diego, CA, USA (Murchison & Cumming). From 1996 through 2000 legal assistant to civil law notary Dr. Heribert Heckschen in Dresden (assistance in publications in reorganization and stock corporation law as well as preparation of agreements in corporate and real estate law). From 2000 through 2004 lawyer in the Frankfurt offices of international firm Haarmann, Hemmelrath & Partner in the practice group Corporate Law, Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions. From 2004 through 2009 lawyer in the Frankfurt offices of international firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in the Corporate & Financial Services department. Since 2009 as lawyer with HFK Rechtsanwälte in Frankfurt am Main.

Areas of Practice

• Ongoing advice in corporate law
• Corporate reorganization of companies
• Mergers & Acquisitions, including corporate succession and management buy-out
• Real estate transactions
• Acquisition and project finanvce
• REIT-structuring

Expertise
 

• Advising private equity-funds and management teams in management buy-outs (e.g. Deutsche Beteiligungs AG, BdW and Süd Private Equity in the management buy-out of Rütgers Automotive-group and the management of Freudenberg Bausysteme KG in the management buy-out by capiton).
• Advising von private equity-funds and strategic investors in the acquisition and sale of companies, namely in the automotive (e.g. Faist Automotive-group and Geiger technik), hotel (e.g. Raffles Hotels International), electronics (e.g. BARTEC), services (e.g. W.I.S.-group), software, and housing (e.g. WOBA Dresden) industries.
• Advising banking syndicates in project financings, e.g. wind energy parks.
• Advising several family offices in the corporate structuring of a G-REIT.
• Advising institutional investors in the private placement of notes of a German company.
• Advising companies of the housing industry in corporate reorganizations and refinancing.

Publications
 

• Legal commentary on Articles 4 through 9 and 22 of the G-REIT-Act in Striegel (Ed.), REITG, 2007
• Striegel/Münchow, Transformation of closed-end real estate funds into a G-REIT, Institutional Investment Real Estate Magazin, 3/2007
• Münchow/Striegel/Jesch, Management Buy-out, 2008
• Chapter IV (REIT) in Jesch/Schilder/Striegel (Ed.), Legal Compendium Real Estate Investments, 2009
• Legal commentary on Article 9 of the German Venture Capital Act (WKBG) in Striegel/Wiesbrock/Jesch (Ed.), Legal Commentary on German Private Equity-law, in preparation for December 2009