Dr. Ulrike Friese-Dormann

+49-89-25559-3646
UFriese@milbank.com
 
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Ulrike Friese-Dormann is a partner in the Munich office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP and part of the team founding this office in 2004. Ulrike Friese-Dormann has significant experience in “corporate advisory” work and public M&A transactions (“Aktien- und Konzernrecht, Umwandlung-recht, Übernahmerecht”) including corporate reorganizations and takeovers. She advises numerous listed companies and financial sponsors on all aspects of corporate law and takeover law. She also works for clients in the context of actions of minority shareholders and appraisal proceedings following corporate reorganizations.

Her recent major transactions include the legal advic to/on:

  • ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG on
    • the takeover of the pan-European TV, radio and print conglomerate SBS Broadcasting Group,
    • the takeover of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG by KKR/Permira, and
    • the intended takeover of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG by the German publishing house Axel Springer AG and the intended merger of both companies.
  • The Carlyle Group in connection with the first public-to-private by a financial sponsor after the enactment of the new takeover law: the take private of Edscha AG by way of a squeeze-out of its minority shareholders.
  • ProSieben Media in the context of the statutory merger of public company ProSieben Media and SAT.1 (forming the largest German private TV station).
  • Various “squeeze-outs” including Deutsche Bahn AG, the state-owned German railway company, and Energie Baden-Württemberg AG regarding the squeeze-outs of the minority shareholders of Stinnes AG and Salamander AG.
  • Stinnes AG and Infineon Technologies AG on the spin-off of business units.
  • Interbrew S.A. on corporate and takeover law aspects of the formation of a joint venture with Gabriel Sedlmayr Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu KGaA.
  • The supervisory board of BERU AG in the context of the takeover by BorgWarner.
  • Mayfair, the fund of the Herz family, on the acquisition of a minority participation in PUMA AG.
  • Gabriel Sedlmayr Spaten-Franziskaner Bräu KGaA and Dinkelacker Schwabenbräu AG on the conclusion of settlement agreements with minority shareholders.

Ulrike Friese-Dormann studied law, philosophy and German literature at the universities of Mainz and Dijon/France and obtained her doctorate degree (Dr. jur.) from Mainz (2000). Before joining Milbank, Ulrike Friese-Dormann was an attorney at a major international law firm.

Ulrike Friese-Dormann was admitted to the German bar in 2000. She speaks German, English and French.





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Squeeze-out-Regelung verfassungsgemäß

ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG erwirbt SBS Broadcasting Group:Startschuss für pan-europäische TV-Gruppe

OLG München entscheidet zugunsten der ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG

Edscha AG verkauft Geschäftsbereich Fahrzeugentwicklung an Semcon AB

KKR und Permira erwerben ProSiebenSat.1 

Landgericht München I entscheidet zugunsten der ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG 


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