Anna-Maria Kuckerz

Anna-Maria’s experience includes advising:

Borrowers

• 3i on the refinancing of Garden & House
• ACCENTRO Real Estate on the successful recapitalization and completion of the first German StaRUG, which did not require a capital reduction to zero
• AGC Equity Partners on a mezzanine loan to acquire the Squaire at Frankfurt airport and parking area
• Angelo Gordon & Co. on financing a residential real estate portfolio with Berlin Hyp
• Apollo on the €1 billion investment in the Suedewo Portfolio (residential real estate portfolio controlled by Vonovia)
• Azure Investments on financing and refinancing various hotel portfolios
• BU Bregal Unternehmerkapital on:
  • Financing of the acquisition of a majority stake in A. Eberle 
  • Financing of the acquisition of the Uniconta Group, a cloud-based ERP software company
  • Acquiring a majority stake in SEMA, a provider of software solutions and services in the construction industry
• Catella on financing the acquisitions of student residences in Groningen, Eindhoven, and Berlin-Lichtenberg, as well as on financing a property in Cork, Ireland 
• Christie B.V on the amendment to acquisition and capex facilities
• Ferngas Group on the €445 million refinancing and increase of an existing capex facility
• HanseMerkur Grundvermögen on acquiring a real estate portfolio comprising 34 office and retail properties in Germany and Austria from Austrian real estate group Conwert, as well as on acquiring project developments
• HARTING Group on acquiring Studer Cables
• Hellmann Worldwide Logistics on extending its existing consortium financing
• IK Partners on the acquisition financing of Lohoff Pension Services, a full-service provider for occupational pension schemes
• LEONI on the restructuring and implementation of the restructuring plan through StaRUG proceedings
• Madison International Realty on refinancing and stabilizing a portfolio of shopping centers, with simultaneous the sale of a shopping center in Dresden
• Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund and Redos Real Estate on acquiring and financing a number of real estate portfolios
• Prefere Resins Group on its debt refinancing
• Primevest Capital Partners (formerly Bouwfonds) on financing and refinancing the acquisition of car parks in Europe
• Saphira Holdings and Trench Group on successfully refinancing an existing €585 million term loan B credit facility
• Trench on the €1.4 billion term loan B refinancing of its existing debt capital structure 
• Triton on the financing to acquire Trench Group
• Keenfinity Group, a Triton portfolio company, on the refinancing of its existing financial indebtedness, including a €325 million Nordic bond
• OneIM and OCP on the real estate financing aspects of its acquisition of Adler Group’s €422.5 million “Cosmopolitan” portfolio, located in North Rhine-Westphalia 
• Starwood Capital on the real estate financing aspects of its €350 million acquisition of the Helix portfolio, comprising twelve logistics properties, from Nuveen and Palmira 
• European Pizza Group (EPG) on the combination of EPG and Crosta & Mollica, a British premium pizza manufacturer
• Sixth Street Partners on the recapitalization of a portfolio of healthcare clinics across Germany in partnership with PATRIZIA

Lenders

• Allied Irish Banks on an acquisition loan for a property in Ireland
• Apheon on the unitranche/super senior acquisition financing for Apheon’s buy-and-build platform in the trenchless pipe rehabilitation sector
• Ares Management on Zytomics’ refinancing and recapitalization
• A bank consortium on a €2 billion syndicated revolving credit facility for Deutsche Lufthansa
• Apera Asset Management on the:
  • Unitranche/super senior refinancing of Terras, together with Oldenburgische Landesbank
  • Acquisition of Eurorad by Bencis
• CVC Credit on the refinancing of Kanalservice Gruppe and Grupo Sasti, as well as their merger
• DZ Bank on the:
  • Financing of the acquisition of Onlineprinters
  • Financing of the acquisition of Lasertryk.dk
• Deutsche Pfandbriefbank on refinancing real estate portfolios and on several term loan facilities for pan-European Real Estate Investments
• Hamburg Commercial Bank (formerly HSH Nordbank) on financing various shopping centers and office buildings
• JP Morgan on the financing of the acquisition of Burke Porter Group
• UniCredit on the:
  • €305 million syndicated loan facility for Heckler & Koch
  • Financing of the acquisition of Dermatologikum Hamburg GmbH by ECM Equity Capital Management
  • Revolving credit facility for the Stockmeier Group to refinance existing debt

Acquirer's Counsel on Financing Aspects

• Brookfield on a joint venture for the acquisition of a portfolio of light industrial assets in Sweden from EQT
• Demant on its agreement to acquire KIND Group
• SPIE on the acquisition of a majority stake in BridgingIT