Ralph Dräger

Ralph’s experience includes advising:  

Private Equity-Driven Transactions

• Alpha Private Equity on the acquisition financing of EUROPART Holding GmbH
• Bank consortium on the financing of Capvis’ shares in Thermamax Group
• Carlyle on the €7.7 billion cross-border acquisition financing of BASF Coatings Business
• Crescent on the private debt financing of Infravadis
• Deutsche Apotheker- und Ärztebank on the financing of Waterland’s acquisition of JV Hansefit
• Hellman & Friedman and Blackstone on the attempted public takeover financing of Scout24 
• Hg on the MediFox acquisition financing
• Hg on the financing agreements in connection for the acquisition of Mobility Concept and advice on the financing of an add-on acquisition
• Morgan Stanley and Société Générale on the Schur Flexibles Group refinancing

Corporate Loans

• Bank consortium and savings banks on the syndicated loan agreement as part of a refinancing for NOVENTI
• Bank consortium on the refinancing of Tom Tailor
• Bank consortium on the extension of existing revolving credit facilities totaling €4.7 billion for TUI
• Bank consortium on the refinancing of MAHLE
• Capvis on the Kaffee Partner Group refinancing 
• Kongsberg on the refinancing (bonds and super senior revolving facility)
• Lenders on the financing in connection with the acquisition of the Thermal Commercial Vehicles Division from Valeo

Financial Restructurings

• Bank consortium on the restructuring of Tom Tailor
• Bank consortium of STEAG's parent company on restructuring of the group with focus to the coal phase-out

Infrastructure Finance

• Apterra on the financing of the acquisition of a 49 percent stake in BALANCE Erneuerbare Energien
• Bank consortium on the €1.8 billion green facilities for NeXtWind
• Bank consortium on the €1.8 billion syndicated term loan for Securing Energy for Europe GmbH (SEFE)
• Bank consortium on the refinancing of inexio Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation KGaA
• Blue Elephant Energy on its financing
• CVC DIF on the acquisition of a significant majority stake in firstcolo
• DWS Infrastructure on the acquisition of RON Group
• DWS Infrastructure on the combined refinancing of Ergéa Group
• FSI on the refinancing of Evos Group
• Funders and investors on the €1.4 billion investment grade long-term debt platform financing for ELL
• Funders on the combined refinancing of Inexio and Deutsche Glasfaser
• Funders on the financing of Infrafibre Group 
• Funders on the refinancing of euNetworks Group
• Funders on the €230 million infrastructure refinancing of Cartonplast
• Funders on the financing for the acquisition of Quartz Healthcare by InfraVia
• Funders on the refinancing of GETEC
• GIP and KKR on the financing of the takeover of Vantage Towers (joint venture with Vodafone)
• Igneo Infrastructure Partners in connection with the acquisition of German and French waste management entities
• Italo Holding and its shareholders on the financing to support Italo’s €3.6 billion investment in Germany
• Lenders in connection with refinancing of amedes Group
• MaxSolar on its €155 Million infrastructure holdco financing
• Orion Infrastructure Capital (OIC) on a combined debt and equity investment in CargoBeamer
• Strategic Fiber Network on the financing of its acquisition of Northern Fiber Holding
• Swiss Life and Gelsenwasser on the platform financing of Infrareal
• Swiss Life and Vauban on the platform financing for Aves One
• ThyssenGas on its €1.4 billion platform refinancing
• Westconnect on its €1.2 billion capital raise