Verena Birke

verena.birke@lw.com

+49.69.6062.6531

Profile

Verena Birke, a finance associate in Latham & Watkins’ Frankfurt office, advises German and international clients on a range of domestic and cross-border finance transactions.

She represents financial institutions, direct lending funds, private equity funds, and corporate borrowers in:

Cross-border and domestic acquisition financings
General corporate financings
Financial restructurings

Prior to joining Latham as an associate, Verena studied law in Frankfurt and Linköping, and completed her legal training in the Finance Department of the Frankfurt and Singapore offices of Latham & Watkins.

Experience

Verena’s experience includes advising:

3i on the financing of the acquisition of OMS Prüfservice GmbH
Acrotec (a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group) on the acquisition of Mebus MIM-Technik
Apollo on the €1 billion investment in Deutsche Wohnen SE
Ares Management on the financing of the partnership between Summitas and BVUK
An asset management firm on a term loan and revolving credit facility for a special purpose acquisition company to refinance existing debt
Bank consortium on the €1.4 billion green facilities for NeXtWind
Brookfield on its preferred equity investment in a Cologne residential project
Credit Agricole on the €2.44 billion refinancing of a term loan facility for Financière Top Mendel
Global Loan Agency Services on the £945 million refinancing of a term loan facility for Financière Top Mendel
Goldman Sachs on ASK Chemicals’ €325 million 10% senior secured notes due 2029
Igneo Infrastructure Partners on its €220 million term loan and revolving credit facilities in connection with the acquisition of certain German and French entities in the waste management sector
Kelvion Group on €235 million super senior revolving credit and guarantee facilities to refinance outstanding notes
Main Capital Partners on the sale of software company Perbility to Rivean Capital
Minimax Viking on the maturity extension of its existing syndicated loan facility (amend and extend)
Quadriga Capital on its sale of Kinetics Group, a Germany-based engineering services provider, to Exyte
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken on the €816.5 million term loans, capex and revolving credit facility for G+E GETEC to refinance existing debt
Trench on the refinancing of its existing debt capital structure
Wolfspeed its US$2 billion note financing