Jakob Baldes

jakob.baldes@lw.com

+49.211.8828.4644

Profile

Jakob Baldes is an associate in the Corporate Department of Latham & Watkins’ Düsseldorf office.

He advises financial and strategic investors on domestic and cross-border private equity and M&A transactions, as well as on co-investments and management participations.

Prior to joining Latham as an associate, Jakob worked as a law clerk in Latham’s Corporate Department in Düsseldorf and gained experience working as an academic assistant in the Bonn office of a major German law firm. He also worked for the Federal Audit Office (Bundesrechnungshof).

Experience

Jakob’s experience includes advising:

Antin Infrastructure Partners on the acquisition of a majority stake in Blue Elephant Energy AG
A leading gas and oil company on the separation of its global E&P activities
A global energy and petroleum company on the sale of its stake in an oil field in Kazakhstan
Blackrock on the acquisition of a majority stake in vitronet Group
CVC on the sale of a majority stake in Tipico Group to Banijay Group and the reinvestment in the combined group
Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP) on the acquisition of majority shareholding in maincubes
Fresenius on:
- The sale of the majority of Vamed’s rehabilitation business to PAI Partners
- The integration of Vamed’s hospital services business under the new name Fresenius Health Services (FHS)
HARPS Global Pte. Ltd., a Southeast Asian medical glove producer, on the acquisition of Semperit AG Holding’s medical business, Sempermed
Hg on a strategic partnership with Diamant Software
Honeywell on the £1.8 billion acquisition of Johnson Matthey’s catalyst technologies business
KKR on its strategic partnership with Encavis AG
Shift4 on the acquisition of Finaro, a cross-border eCommerce payments provider
Triton on the acquisition of Trench
VHV Holding on the sale of Eucon Automotive to Infopro Digital
ZAVA Global on the sale to listed US-based Hims & Hers Health, Inc.