Languages

• Chinese
• Dutch
• English
• Farsi
• French
• German
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Polish
• Romanian
• Spanish

Areas of Practice

• Alternative Dispute Resolution & Mediation
• Automotive
• Banking & Finance
• Biotechnology
• Bondholder Committees
• Business Restructuring & Reorganization
• Buyouts
• Capital Markets
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Chemicals
• Copyrights & Trademarks
• Corporate Compliance Programs
• Distressed Mergers & Acquisitions
• Distressed Real Estate Transactions
• e-Discovery
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Europe
• European Labor Law
• Financial Services
• Fund Formation
• Global Restructuring Matters
• Intellectual Property
• International Litigation & Arbitration
• Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
• Labor & Employment
• Licensing & Technology Transactions
• Life Sciences
• M&A
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Official Unsecured Creditors' Committees
• Other Significant Creditor Representations
• Out-of-Court Restructurings
• Patent Litigation
• Patent Prosecution
• Pharmaceuticals
• Private Equity
• Product Liability & Tort Litigation
• Product Response Team
• Secured Lender Groups
• Trial Practice
• Venture Capital - Investor
• Venture Capital - Issuer

Published Works

• German Labor and Employment News, 2009
• Antitrust Alert: New Notification Threshold in Germany Reduces Risks to Offshore Transactions, 2009
• Antitrust Alert: New Legislation Sends Mixed Signals for German Merger Control and International Transactions, 2009
• German Labor and Employment News, 2009
• German M&A and Private Equity News, 2009
• German Labor and Employment News, 2008
• German M&A and Private Equity News, 2008
• German M&A and Private Equity News, 2008
• German Labor and Employment News, 2008
• German Labor and Employment News, 2008
• German Labor and Employment News, 2007
• German Business Restructuring and Reorganization News, 2007
• German Labor and Employment News, 2007
• German Business Restructuring and Reorganization News, 2007
• German Labor and Employment News, 2007
• German Labor and Employment News, 2006
• German Tax Practice, 2001
• German Antitrust Practice, 2001
• German Intellectual Property, 2001

Representative Cases

• Acquisition Facility
• Acquisition of a German airbag production and testing facility
• Acquisition of Air Intake Module and Air Filtration Business
• Acquisition of Akeler Holdings
• 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 D.F. King and M Communications
• Acquisition of DiverseyLever
• Acquisition of eSeSIX assets
• Acquisition of Eurinpro
• Acquisition of GE's silanes business
• Acquisition of Harman Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
• Acquisition of Heier Metallverarbeitung GmbH
• Acquisition of Hella Aerospace
• Acquisition of Hydraulik-Ring
• 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 MaXware
• Acquisition of Moritex Corporation , (2008)
• Acquisition of Nokia loudspeaker business
• Acquisition of NPL Portfolio
• Acquisition of Personality IT People Power , (2008)
• 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 TIGI product business , (2009)
• Acquisition of Wittur
• Buyout
• Buyout , (2009)
• Buyout
• Corporate Due Diligence and Executive Service Agreement
• Credit Facility
• Customs Office Acquisition
• German Cement Industry Investigation
• German FCO Investigation
• Issuance of Shares by a private biopharmaceutical company , (2009)
• Issuance of Shares by LOCANIS AG
• Issuance of Shares by Priaxon AG
• Issuance of Shares by Zweitgeist GmbH
• IT Operations Outsourcing
• LANXESS Yaxing Chemical Joint Venture
• Merger with Wagon Plc
• PIPE Transaction
• Portfolio Acquisition Facility
• Private Placement
• Private Placement
• Reorganization of the assembly technologies business
• Restructuring and Refinancing of Bank Debt
• 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 PPC Insulators
• 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
• Sale-Leaseback of International Portfolio
• Siebe Acquisition
• Technology Licensing

West Practice Categories

Affirmative Action -- Employee, Alcoholic Beverages, Americans with Disabilities Act -- Employee, Apparel, Asbestos, Banking & Finance Law, Bankruptcy Law, Bankruptcy Litigation, Business & Commercial Law, Business & Trade, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Chemicals & Cosmetics, Class Actions, Closely Held Businesses, Collections & Repossessions, Collections & Repossessions, Collective Bargaining, Commercial Bankruptcy, Commercial Banks, Commercial Leasing, Complex Litigation, Consumer Bankruptcy, Copyrights, Corporate Governance, Credit Unions, Creditors' Rights, Debt Discharge, Debtor/Creditor, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) -- Employee, Employee Rights -- Employee, Employment Contracts -- Employee, Employment Discrimination -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employee, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- Employee, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Employer,'s Liability Act (FELA) -- Employee, Federal Trial Practice, Firearms, Food & Agricultural Products, Foreclosures, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Garnishment, Intellectual Property Law, International Banking, International Intellectual Property, International Law, International Trade Litigation, Joint Ventures, Labor Arbitration, Labor Disputes, Labor Law, Labor Legislation, Labor Relations Boards & Proceedings, Lending & Secured Transactions, Limited Liability Companies, Litigation & Appeals, Loan Workouts, Machinery & Tools, Medical Products & Devices, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Military & Veterans Appeals, Mortgages & Foreclosures, Motor Vehicle Defects, Multidistrict Litigation, Municipal Employment -- Employee, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA) -- Employee, Partnerships, Patent Litigation, Patents, Pensions, Benefits & Compensations -- Employee, Pharmaceutical Products, Products Liability Law, Public Finance, Recreational Products, Reorganizations, Reorganizations & Restructuring, Savings & Thrifts, Securities Law, Sexual Harassment -- Employee, Shareholders' Rights, State & Municipal Bonds & Financing, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, Technology Licensing, Tobacco, Trade Associations, Trade Dress, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Unfair Labor Practices, Unions, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court, Venture Capital, Wage & Hour Laws, Wage & Hour Laws -- Employee, Whistleblower -- Employee, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act -- Employee, Workouts, Wrongful Termination -- Employee