Lucas Schweitzer

Mr. Schweitzer's recent experience includes advising:

• GIP and KKR on the strategic partnership with Vodafone to invest in Vantage Towers
• Advent International on a global joint venture with LANXESS and joint acquisition of DSM Engineering Materials
• Group Carrefour on the sale of its stake in Cajoo to Flink by way of a contribution in kind against issuance of new Flink shares to Group Carrefour
• Deutsche Telekom on the acquisition of shares in T-Mobile US from Japanese Softbank by virtue of a capital increase in kind at Deutsche Telekom and the signing of an investment agreement with Softbank*
• CompuGroup Medical on
  • Its acquisition of US eMDs*, as well as parts of the German and Spanish healthcare IT business of US Cerner Corporation*
  • A private placement of shares in an ABB transaction*
  • Its transformation into a SE & Co. KGaA*
• Beiersdorf on the acquisition of US skin-care company Chantecaille Beauté from the Chantecaille family*
• Aurubis on the acquisition of Metallo Group from Towerbrook Capital Partners*
• Freudenberg on the sale of its IT business unit to Canadian Syntax*
• Consortium of CVC Capital and Messer on the acquisition of parts of the US gas business from Linde in connection with the Linde-Praxair merger*
• General Atlantic on the sale of amedes group to Antin Infrastructure Partners* as well as on the formation of a joint venture with Axel Springer in the online classifieds business (including StepStone)*
• Consortium of Hellman & Friedman and Blackstone on the attempted public takeover of Scout 24*
• London Stock Exchange on the attempted merger with Deutsche Börse*
• Wincor Nixdorf on its cross-border cash/share takeover by US Diebold and subsequent integration measures*
• Lotto 24 on its cross-border share-for-share takeover by UK Zeal Network*
• Gagfah on its takeover by Deutsche Annington (Vonovia)*
• Nissan on the placement of its Daimler shares in an ABB transaction*
• SFC Energy in connection with a rights issuance*
• Various German listed companies on governance, stock corporation and capital markets law aspects*

* Matter handled prior to joining Latham