Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• English
• German
• Hungarian
• Romanian

Lawyer Overview

Prior to joining Jones Day in April 2000, Adriane practiced law for three years in the Frankfurt office of Haarmann, Hemmelrath & Partner. During this period, Adriane worked on German corporate law matters, legal advice for funds, as well as on Romanian tax law matters and privatizations. Under a program financed by the German government, she was part of a team that prepared Romanian income and corporate tax laws.

Currently Adriane's practice focuses on private equity transactions, cross-border M&A transactions, general corporate law, and commercial contracts. Clients for which she has handled such matters include Amway, Bayer, Cerberus, CFS Group, Cooper & Tire Rubber Co., Credit Suisse, ERICO, Goldman Sachs, Harman Becker Automotive Group, Harris, Hilite/Hydraulik-Ring, La Poste Française, Lehman Brothers, Mahle, Merz Pharma, Micro Target Media, NACCO, Neoware, Nordson, NVIDIA, The Riverside Company, Sanofi Synthelabo, SAP, TokyoPop, WL Ross & Co., Wind River Systems, Wittur, and Zodiac Intertechnique.

Since 2001 she has advised automotive suppliers in transactions and in their day-to-day business in negotiations of contracts with customers and suppliers. She represents clients in negotiations with car manufacturers such as Daimler, BMW, Porsche, Audi, VW, Renault, Volvo, Bentley, Ferrari, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, and Opel and with suppliers such as Bosch, Denso, Magna, Siemens VDO, Aisin Seiki, ZF, and Johnson Matthey.

Areas of Practice

• Private Equity
• Buyouts
• Fund Formation
• Venture Capital - Investor
• Venture Capital - Issuer
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• M&A
• Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances

Representative Cases

• Acquisition of Air Intake Module and Air Filtration Business
• Acquisition of Denfleet and Elstree
• Acquisition of eSeSIX assets
• Acquisition of GE's silanes business
• Acquisition of Hydraulik-Ring
• Acquisition of Josef Attenberger and Chicago Steel Tape
• Acquisition of MaXware
• Acquisition of NPL Portfolio
• Acquisition of Wittur
• Bankruptcy Buyout
• Buyout
• Ceram Insulators business acquisition
• LANXESS Yaxing Chemical Joint Venture
• Reorganization of the assembly technologies business
• Sale of GE Bayer Silicones
• Sale of PPC Insulators

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Joint Ventures, Lending & Secured Transactions, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Trade Associations, Venture Capital

Bar Admissions

• Frankfurt, Germany

Education

• Friedrich-Alex Erlangen-Nurn

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