Posluschny, Ivo

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• Dutch
• English
• French
• German

Lawyer Overview

Ivo Posluschny focuses his practice on complex business transactions, especially in Germany, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, divestitures, buyouts, and joint ventures. Ivo has considerable experience in structuring, negotiating, and documenting complex private equity transactions and leveraged buyouts, including debt financing and corporate control transactions, and in providing corporate governance and general corporate counseling to portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Jones Day, he advised financial investors such as Bain Capital in the acquisition of Süddekor Group and in the disposal of the Brenntag Group to BC Partners; Golden Gate Capital in the acquisition of Leica Microsystem's semiconductor equipment division and in the acquisition of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software manufacturer Infor, including the representation of the takeover target in the subsequent rescission, and opposition proceedings; Findos Investor in the acquisition of Ondal Group Industrietechnik and Tondeo Group from Wella AG and in the subsequent disposal of the latter; as well as Seventure Partners, Audax Group, Madison Dearborn Partners, and MidOcean Partners. In addition, he advised the insolvency administrator in the sale of ATS to UNIWHEELS Group and jeans manufacturer 7 For All Mankind in the acquisition of German distribution companies.

He also has advised strategic investors in extensive national and international transactions such as SC Johnson in the acquisition of the Autan division of Bayer AG and Kemet Corporation in the acquisition of the Tantalum capacitor division from EPCOS AG.

Before joining Jones Day, Ivo practiced at Kirkland & Ellis in London and Munich and at Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler in Berlin.

Areas of Practice

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

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

• Germany

Education

• Berlin - Germany
• U Freiburg - Germany

Published Works

• Aktiengesellschaft in: Business Transactions in Germany, 2. edition 2004, 2004

Address

Prinzregentenstr. 11
80538 Munich, Federal Republic of Germany

Phones

49.89.20.60.42.200 (Business Phone)

Faxes

49.89.20.60.42.293 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com