Dr. Christoph Rothenfusser

+49-89-25559-3656
CRothenfusser@milbank.com
 
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Christoph Rothenfusser is a partner in the Munich office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP and part of the team founding this office in 2004. He focuses on corporate advisory, equity capital markets and public M&A transactions (“Aktien- und Konzernrecht, Umwandlungsrecht, Übernahmerecht”) including corporate reorganizations and takeovers. He advises numerous listed companies on all aspects of corporate law, takeover law and the law of capital markets. He also works for clients in the context of actions of minority shareholders and appraisal proceedings following corporate reorganizations.

His recent major transactions include the legal advice to:

  • Apax on the friendly takeover of D+S europe AG.
  • Dresdner Kleinwort and Calyon on the financing of Macquarie’s (first) takeover bid for Techem AG.
  • ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG on
    • the sale of C More Group AB to Sweden-based broadcaster TV4,
    • the takeover of the pan-European TV, radio and print conglomerate SBS Broadcasting Group,
    • the takeover of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG by KKR and 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.
  • HVB Capital on their investment in the pay-TV platform Premiere Star.
  • Morgan Stanley on the conversion of Wacker Chemie into a stock corporation as part of its IPO.
  • Mayfair, the investment fund of the Herz family, on the PIPE transaction regarding PUMA AG.
  • The Carlyle Group on
  • the sale of Honsel International Technologies to Ripplewood, Inc.,
  • the sale of its participation in listed BERU AG to BorgWarner, Inc., and
  • 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.
  • IXOS Software AG in the context of its takeover by OpenText Corp.
  • Nemetschek AG on a spin-off of material parts of its operating business to subsidiaries.
  • mediantis AG in the context of a share-buy-back program in the amount of 40 % of its share capital.
  • Sixt AG on ongoing corporate and transactional matters.
  • FC Bayern München AG on the acquisition of a participation in Allianz Arena München Stadion GmbH from TSV 1860 München.

Christoph Rothenfusser studied physics and law at the universities of Freiburg and Munich. He holds a doctorate degree in law from the University of Munich and is a graduate in physics from the University of Freiburg. Before joining Milbank, he was an attorney at a major international law firm in Munich.

Christoph Rothenfusser is admitted to the German bar and speaks German and English.








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Milbank berät ProSiebenSat.1 beim Verkauf des skandinavischen Pay-TV-Unternehmens C More Group an die schwedische TV4 Group

Milbank berät Apax als neuen Kernaktionär der D+S europe AG

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