MUNICH, January 12, 2015 – The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has advised the growth investor General Atlantic on the successful merger of FlixBus and MeinFernbus and the associated investment of General Atlantic into the new joint venture. MeinFernbus, from Berlin, and FlixBus, headquartered in Munich, both founded in 2011, are the pioneers in the German long-distance bus travel market and are merging to form one long-distance bus travel company.
The two largest “made in Germany” long-distance bus travel startups will combine their national routes to expand their range, and plan to launch Europe-wide long-distance bus travel lines.
A Milbank team headed by Dr. Norbert Rieger comprehensively advised General Atlantic on corporate, competition and tax law in relation to the transaction.
Advisor to General Atlantic: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Norbert Rieger (lead, Corporate/M&A), Alexander Rinne (Competition), Matthias Schell (Tax, all Munich); Special Counsel: Andrea Eggenstein (Corporate/M&A, Frankfurt); Associates: Sebastian Heim, Benjamin Leuchten, Sebastian Reiner, Dennis Seifarth (all Corporate/M&A, Munich), Leopold Riedl, Thomas Tiedemann (both Corporate/M&A, Frankfurt), Katharina Kolb (Competition, Munich)
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Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP is a leading international law firm founded in 1866 in New York City. Today Milbank has offices in Beijing, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, São Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, DC and is present in all major financial and economic centers of the world. Milbank focuses its worldwide legal services in the areas of finance, transactions and litigation.
The first European office was opened in 1979 in London, followed by Frankfurt in 2001 and Munich in 2004. Due to the close cooperation of the German offices with the finance, corporate, cartel and tax lawyers practicing in other Milbank offices, in particular London and New York, Milbank Germany is in a position to provide fully integrated legal advice on the highest level in all these core areas pursuant to German, English and US law.
