Wessel Heukamp

Wessel’s experience includes advising:

Private Equity

• Cinven on
  • Its strategic partnership with Grant Thornton Germany*
  • Investing in software company thinkcell*
  • Acquiring hosting company dogado from Triton*
  • Selling Host Europe Group (HEG) to US domain registrar GoDaddy*
  • Acquiring admixture company Masterbuilders from Swiss strategic Sika*
  • Establishment, development, and the €3.5 billion sale of Viridium to an Allianz-led consortium*
• Cinven and CPPIB on acquiring Hotelbeds Group from TUI*
• EQT Infrastructure on acquiring a majority stake in Meine Radiologie and blikk*
• EQT Private Equity on:
  • Selling Utimaco, an international provider of professional cybersecurity and data intelligence solutions for regulated critical infrastructure*
  • Acquiring and selling schülke and Prosenio*
  • Suse’s IPO*
  • Selling its 37% minority stake in Sportradar to a consortium consisting of CPPIB and Silicon Valley-based investor TCV*
• Ergon Capital Partners on selling the majority of pharmaceutical supplier Zellbios to DPE Deutsche Private Equity*
• General Atlantic on investing in energy software provider powercloud and digital group Nucom, including its most recent acquisition of The Meet Group*
• GIC on investing in:
  • Locomotive leasing company Railpool*
  • Digital bank N26*
  • DeepL*
  • Trade Republic*

Strategic Transactions

• AIG Life Limited on acquiring a UK-domiciled life insurance portfolio from ERGO Lebensversicherung AG and the associated authorization procedure with BaFin and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA)*
• Aon on its contemplated all-stock combination with Willis Towers Watson, with an implied combined equity value of approximately US$80 billion, making Aon the leading insurance broker worldwide*
• Arch Re on various acquisition opportunities and reorganization projects*
• AUDI on:
  • Investing in Here (together with BMW and Daimler)*
  • Investing in DTM and DTM’s dissolution*
  • Investing in Cubic Telecom*
  • Various early-stage investments in the technology space*
  • Divestiture of Dealerware*
• A strategic client on its investment in freenow*
• Allianz X on investing in:
  • finanzen.de, a digital financial product broker*
  • Innovation Group, a digital claims management service provider*
• ATS Automation Toolings System, a Canadian automation provider, on various acquisitions in Europe in the automation sector*
• Baloise on its €15 billion merger with Helvetia*
• Fidelidade on acquiring a 70% stake in Insurtech Prosperity Group*
• Viridium on:
  • The potential acquisitions of life insurance portfolios from Zurich and Axa, as well as Arag Lebensversicherung and Pro bAV*
  • Acquiring Generali Lebensversicherung*
  • Acquiring the Mannheimer life insurance business from Protektor*
  • Acquiring German and Austrian Skandia life insurance business and the onward sale of the Austrian book to FWU*
• Zurich:
  • As insolvency insurer of the Thomas Cook group*
  • On selling all shares in its distribution entity Bonnfinanz to BlackFin (including the conclusion of a renewed distribution agreement)*
  • On its comprehensive life and non-life insurance distribution agreement with Deutsche Bank group, securing Zurich’s continuous access to Deutsche Bank’s distribution capabilities for the next decade*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham