Thomas Weitkamp, a leading German finance lawyer, advises clients on complex domestic and cross-border finance and financial restructuring transactions. Thomas is admitted as a lawyer and solicitor (England and Wales).

Thomas advises private equity funds, debt funds, financial institutions, and corporate borrowers on complex financing structures, including:

  • Acquisition finance
  • Direct lending (including senior/super senior structures)
  • Public-to-private transactions
  • Leveraged buyouts
  • Infrastructure financing
  • Corporate financing
  • Restructurings

He draws on extensive experience with lenders and borrowers, including recently focusing on unitranche and other direct lending financings. Thomas balances excellent technical skills with a savvy commercial sense to help clients achieve their strategic objectives and ensure the success of their financing transactions.

Thomas’s experience includes advising: 

  • Alcentra and Deutsche Bank on the financing of the acquisition of congatec by DBAG 
  • Apera Asset Management on the
    • Financing of the acquisition of Toolport Group by Riverside
    • Financing of Insight Secure’s acquisition of Verimatrix
  • Ares, ING, and Rabobank on the unitranche/super senior financing of Kharis Capital’s acquisition of Nordsee Holding
  • Blackrock on the
    • Financing of the acquisition of Catalysts group and Crisp Research by DBAG
    • Refinancing of vitronet Group (Portfolio of DBAG)
  • CAPZA on the financing of the acquisition of Saal Digital by Ardian
  • DPE Deutsche Private Equity on the valantic Group unitranche/super senior acquisition financing
  • EQT on the financing arrangements to enter exclusive negotiations to acquire Schülke + Mayr GmbH (schülke)
  • Ergon Capital Partners on the
    • Refinancing of Sausalitos Group
    • Refinancing (unitranche/super senior) of Opseo Group (Deutsche Intensivpflege)
  • IK Investment Partners on the
    • Financing of the acquisition of MDT technologies GmbH
    • Financing of the acquisition of Ondal Group
  • Lindsay Goldberg on the takeover of Bilcare Research Group (Bilcare Research)
  • Morgan Stanley on the financing of the acquisition of ORCA Software and ORCA-online by AEC group
  • Pemberton on the unitranche/super senior financing of DPE Deutsche Private Equity’s acquisition of the BE-terna Group
  • Partners Group on the financing of the acquisition of the Schleich Group
  • Trilantic on the financing of the acquisition of Smile Eyes Group
  • Waterland on the financing of the acquisition of Leupold and Schneller

Bar Qualification

  • England and Wales (Solicitor)
  • Rechtsanwalt (Germany)

Education

  • Second German State Exam, Higher Regional Court, Koblenz, 2003
  • First German State Exam, University of Trier, 2000

Languages Spoken

  • German
  • English