Neumann, Laura Sophie

Laura Sophie Neumann

Associate

laura.neumann@lw.com
    Neumann, Laura Sophie

    Laura Sophie Neumann

    Associate

    laura.neumann@lw.com

    Profile

    Laura Sophie Neumann is an associate in the Frankfurt office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the corporate finance team focusing on capital market transactions, with a particular experience in high-yield bond offerings and leveraged finance deals.

    Laura advises corporate issuers and sponsors in various industries, as well as investment banks and private equity funds on high-yield bond, leveraged, and other financing transactions with particular focus on the DACH region.

    Laura advises on:

    • Complex high-yield bond transactions (both under US and German law)
    • “Cross-over” and investment-grade bond offerings
    • High-yield bonds in restructuring scenarios
    • Consent solicitations, including related liability management transactions

    Prior to joining Latham, Laura worked as a law clerk in the Capital Markets Practice in Latham's Frankfurt office and at another renowned law firm.

    Laura studied law at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg and at the Universidad de Salamanca. She obtained her doctorate with a thesis relating to capital markets law.

    Experience

    Debt Offerings

    • MAHLE GmbH (several private placements with concurrent partial tender offer amounting to €500 million; institutional investors’ counsel)
    • Currenta Group (€1 billion high-yield bond offering and €185 million super senior revolving credit facility; €125 million private placement tap issuance; issuer’s counsel)
    • IHO Verwaltungs GmbH (€320 million private placement; placement agents’ counsel)
    • Takko Fashion GmbH (€350 million bond offering; banks’ counsel)
    • Ceconomy AG (€500 million sustainability-linked bond offering; issuer’s counsel)
    • TUI Cruises GmbH (€350 million bond offering; issuer’s counsel)
    • Progroup AG (€750 million bond offering; banks’ counsel)
    • TUI AG (€500 million sustainability-linked bond offering; issuer’s counsel)
    • Profine Group (several bond offerings amounting to €810 million and €85 million super senior revolving credit facility; issuer’s counsel)
    • BayWa AG (€60 million hybrid bond offering; issuer's counsel)
    • Grünenthal GmbH (several bond offerings amounting to €800; issuer's counsel)
    • IHO Holding / IHO Verwaltungs GmbH (€500 million sustainability-linked bond offering; several bond offerings amounting to €1 billion; banks’ counsel)
    • TMD Friction Group GmbH (€350 million bond offering and €35 million super senior revolving credit facility; issuer’s counsel)

    Crossover Bonds

    • ACCENTRO Real Estate on the refinancing of bonds as well as the postponement of mandatory special redemptions implemented by a consent solicitation process in accordance with the German Bond Act and a comprehensive recapitalization transaction implemented via a German scheme (StaRUG) (issuer’s counsel)
    • DEMIRE Deutsche Mittelstand Real Estate on restructuring and partial redemption of its original €499 million bond (issuer’s counsel)

    Equity Offerings

    • Douglas AG (IPO and listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange; banks’ counsel)

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • Rechtsanwältin (Germany)

    Education

    • Second German State Exam, Higher Regional Court Frankfurt, 2022
    • Dr. iur., Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, 2020
    • First German State Exam, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, 2018

    Languages Spoken

    • German
    • English
    • French
    • Spanish

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