Sebastian Goslar

sebastian.goslar@lw.com

+49.211.8828.4658

Profile

Sebastian Goslar advises German and global public companies as well as financial investors on corporate transactions, capital markets, and corporate governance.

Mr. Goslar regularly helps clients navigate:

Public M&A (including defense)
Public company representation issues (including stock corporation and (corporate transformation law)
Corporate governance/compliance
Capital markets compliance and transactions

Mr. Goslar provides clients pragmatic and efficient advice, drawing on his broad experience with more than 150 transactions. He writes frequently on corporate and takeover law, including in the German Public M&A Handbook (“Handbuch Übernahmerecht nach dem WpÜG”).

Experience

Mr. Goslar’s representative matters include advising:

Public M&A

CPPIB on its €500 million co-investment in the public takeover offer for Axel Springer by KKR
Hellman & Friedman and Blackstone Group on the public takeover offer for Scout24
OMERS Infrastructure on its investment in VTG

Additional clients include

CSAV*
Deutsche Börse*
Deutsche Real Estate*
Douglas Holding*
Elexis*
Lixil*
P&I Personal & Informatik*
Sunways*
TDK*
Vodafone *

Public Company Representation

Allgeier SE on the spin-off and subsequent listing of Nagarro SE
Cancom on the squeeze out of minority shareholders of Pironet AG

Additional clients include:

ALBA
Artnet*
ASEAG
BayWa*
Bilfinger*
Brenntag*
buch.de
Diebold Nixdorf*
Douglas Holding
Elexis
Epcos
Gesco*
H&R GmbH & Co*
Hymer
Kabel Deutschland Holding
Klöckner & Co*
P&I Personal & Informatik
Renerco
SGL Carbon*
SPAR
Ströer SE & Co*
VK Mühlen
Wedeco

Corporate Governance/Compliance

Cancom, RWE, ZF Friedrichshafen on stock corporation law to the management board and/or supervisory board
IKB Deutsche Industriebank in the context of the subprime-crisis*
Scout24 on the sale of its AutoScout24 platform to financial investor Hellman & Friedman
Internal investigations for various listed companies (client names confidential)*

Capital Markets

Ceconomy on the:
- Anchor investment of freenet AG and Media-Saturn-Holding GmbH (MSH) on a 15% stake in Russia’s leading consumer electronics retailer PJSC M.vide
- Structured sale of its approximately 9% stake in METRO AG to EP Global Commerce II GmbH
Lanxess on the repurchase of a mandatory convertible bond from Bayer and subsequent placement of shares*

*Partially completed prior to joining Latham