Peter Nussbaum is a partner in the Munich office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and a member of the firm’s Corporate Group. He is one of the three founding partners of this office.
Primary Focus & Experience
Mr. Nussbaum focuses on mergers & acquisitions and equity capital markets; he is particularly experienced in working on private equity transactions. In these areas, he is also regularly representing clients in litigation and arbitration matters.
His recent major representations include:
- LGT Group, Liechtenstein, on the planned acquisition of BHF-Bank from Deutsche Bank.
- Germanischer Lloyd on the acquisition of Noble Denton.
- Hypo Real Estate on the internal investigation against (former) members of its management board.
- PAI Partners on the LBO of Xella jointly with Goldman Sachs Capital Partners.
- Apax on the friendly takeover of D+S Europe.
- Apax and Blackstone on the sale of SULO to Veolia Environnement.
- Cerberus on the LBO of debis AirFinance.
- Ixos Software in connection with the friendly takeover by OpenText.
- jobpilot in connection with the friendly takeover by Adecco.
- The first PIPE transaction in Germany (General Atlantic Partners in Ixos).
Additionally, he advised on the IPOs of Sauer, United Internet, ricardo.de, Netlife, Jobs&Adverts and AerCap as well as several share-for-share transactions ("paper deals") in, inter alia, Tiscali, ADVA, United Internet, travel24.com and Greenfield Online.
Recognition & Accomplishments
Mr. Nussbaum is recommended for corporate law, corporate litigation and large M&A deals as well as private equity deals by Legal 500, IFLR1000, Chambers Global and Chambers Europe. The German directory JUVE Handbuch recognizes him as “Rainmaker in M&A” and as a leading name in private equity transactions.
Mr. Nussbaum has studied law and economic geography at the University of Munich (Dr. jur.), European Community matters at C.I.F.E., Munich/Nice, and holds a post-graduate degree from New York University School of Law (M.C.J.). He was admitted to the New York bar in 1991 and to the German bar in 1993. Before coming to Munich in 2000, he had been practicing law in New York, Brussels, Moscow and Hamburg. He speaks German, English and French.