Dr. Thomas Kleinheisterkamp

Primary Focus & Experience

Thomas Kleinheisterkamp's practice covers all aspects of national and international tax law as well as related corporate law aspects. Thomas focuses on corporate tax law with a particular focus on corporate reorganizations, tax audits, tax litigation, as well as on restructurings and transactional tax advice. In addition, he provides tax advice for both lenders and borrowers in all tax-related areas of acquisition and corporate finance and regularly advises sponsors on all corporate and tax law aspects of management incentive schemes.

Selected Project Samples

• DEUTZ on the acquisition of Frerk Aggregatebau GmbH.
• EQT Future Fund on the acquisition of majority stake in DESOTEC.
• Ad Hoc Committee of noteholders on the restructuring of ACCENTRO Real Estate AG.
• Ad Hoc Committee of noteholders on the restructuring of Standard Profil.
• Ad Hoc Committee of noteholders on successful restructuring of Corestate.
• NORD Holding on sale of its majority shareholding in HG Medical to Astorg MidCap.
• Webasto on its financial restructuring.
• HENSOLDT AG on Comprehensive Refinancing.
• Oakley Capital on Combination of WindStar with Merz Lifecare.
• CURA in connection with Voluntary Takeover Offer for Deutsche EuroShop AG.
• EQT IX on the acquisition of thinkproject.
• PAI and OTPP on the acquisition of Veonet.
• PAI on the acquisition of zahneins.
• KAEFER Isoliertechnik on its partnership with a consortium consisting of Altor and SMS.
• KSBG on its financial restructuring, including reorganization of the financing structure of its subsidiary STEAG.
• ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE on the acquisition of majority stakes in Verivox, Parship Elite Group, Käuferportal, Jochen Schweizer, the integration of maxdome into a joint venture with Discovery, its partnership with General Atlantic for NuCom Group and the sale of Verivox to Italy’s Moltiply Group
• Bilfinger SE on the sale of its Building and Facility business segment to EQT and on the sale of its Water Technologies division to the Chinese company Chengdu Techcent Environment Group.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Current rankings as JUVE, Chambers and Legal 500 recommended Thomas as top lawyer for tax.

He studied law and economics (Wirtschaftsjurist, Univ. Bayreuth) at the University of Bayreuth, where he also obtained a doctorate degree (Dr. jur.). In addition, he serves as a lecturer on “International and European Tax Law” at the University of Bayreuth. He has authored various publications, including the annotation regarding Sec. 10a GewStG (German Trade Tax Act) in the commentary by Lenski/Steinberg.

Thomas Kleinheisterkamp is admitted to the German bar and is accredited as tax advisor and certified tax lawyer (Steuerberater, Fachanwalt für Steuerrecht) in Germany. He speaks German and English.