Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• French
• German

Lawyer Overview

Ansgar Rempp advises clients in corporate and transactional matters, focusing on cross-border transactions, restructurings, and corporate governance questions. He is Partner-in-Charge of the Firm's Munich Office.

Representative cross-border transactions include: Abbott Laboratories' acquisition of BASF's pharmaceutical business; Bayer's sale of its stake in GE Bayer Silicones to Apollo Management; Cerberus' and Goldman Sachs' acquisition of Wittur AG; and numerous transactions for Harman International Industries, including the first successful combined mandatory tender offer and squeeze out under German law.

Other clients which Ansgar has represented include Baker Hughes, Citigroup, Cooper Tire, Diebold, Eastman Chemical, General Motors, GfK, Great Lakes Chemical, IBM, Lanxess, La Poste Française, Mahle, Merz Pharma, NACCO, National City Bank, SAP, Stanley Works, Suzuki, Textron, Timken, TUI, and Vossloh.

Ansgar serves in a number of corporate functions for clients, including as chairman of the supervisory board of Harman Becker Automotive Systems. The Chambers Europe, European Legal 500, European Legal Experts, and JUVE German directories all have recognized Ansgar as a recommended M&A and corporate and commercial lawyer.

Areas of Practice

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• M&A
• Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
• Private Equity
• Buyouts
• Business Restructuring & Reorganization
• Labor & Employment
• Automotive
• Chemicals
• Financial Services
• Pharmaceuticals

Representative Cases

• Acquisition of a German airbag production and testing facility
• Acquisition of Air Intake Module and Air Filtration Business
• Acquisition of AKG Group
• Acquisition of Amafilter
• Acquisition of BASF Pharma
• Acquisition of Blue Moon Group and stake in dmrkynetec
• Acquisition of CAA AG
• Acquisition of Cayenne Software, Inc.
• Acquisition of Denfleet and Elstree
• Acquisition of DiverseyLever
• Acquisition of GE's silanes business
• Acquisition of Harman Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
• Acquisition of Heier Metallverarbeitung GmbH
• Acquisition of Icon Genetics
• Acquisition of Innovative Systems GmbH Navigation Multimedia
• Acquisition of Jil Sander AG
• Acquisition of Josef Attenberger and Chicago Steel Tape
• Acquisition of Kanoldt Arzneimittel GmbH
• Acquisition of Nokia loudspeaker business
• Acquisition of NPL Portfolio
• Acquisition of Pharma Investment Holding , (2008)
• Acquisition of QNX Software Systems
• Acquisition of Raschig AG
• Acquisition of Roehr GmbH & Co. KG
• Acquisition of Studer Revox Group
• Acquisition of Synon Corporation
• Acquisition of TEMIC Sprachverarbeitung
• Acquisition of Texas Instruments Software
• Acquisition of the Business of Johann Sauer Eisenwarenfabrik GmbH & Co.
• Acquisition of Wittur
• Buyout
• LANXESS Yaxing Chemical Joint Venture
• Reorganization of the assembly technologies business
• Sale by subsidiary Siebe Automotive (Deutschland) GmbH
• Sale of all shares in Yale SLT Germany
• Sale of Bird Machine Company
• Sale of Cooper-Standard Automotive
• Sale of D.A.V.I.D. GmbH & Co. KG
• Sale of Friess GmbH
• Sale of GE Bayer Silicones
• Sale of German Hyster forklift-truck dealerships
• Sale of H.L. Blackford Inc. to Masland Industries, Inc
• Sale of Hagenuk Telecom GmbH
• Sale of Harman Deutschland MBH
• Sale of Harman Professional Group's distribution business in the United Kingdom and Ireland
• Sale of production facility
• Sale of Rhein Chemie Rheinau
• Sale of Studer Austria GmbH (MBO)
• Sale of Studer Germany (MBO)
• Sale of the production facilities of ERICO GmbH
• Siebe Acquisition

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Collective Bargaining, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Joint Ventures, Labor Arbitration, Labor Disputes, Labor Law, Labor Legislation, Labor Relations Boards & Proceedings, Lending & Secured Transactions, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Trade Associations, Unfair Labor Practices, Unions, Venture Capital, Wage & Hour Laws, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act

Bar Admissions

• Frankfurt, Germany
• Munich, Germany
• New York

Published Works

• Acquisition of German Publicly Traded Companies: Legal Framework and Practical Experience, 2009
• Worauf muss der Verkaeufer eines Unternehmens achten? (What does the seller of a company have to be careful of), Maschinenmarkt, 2004

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