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Dr. Rainer Altfuldisch

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Rainer Altfuldisch is an associate in the firm's Berlin office and its corporate and transactional practice group. He focuses his practice on corporate, mergers and acquisitions and private equity matters. Rainer has experience in various kinds of M&A transactions, including complex international/cross-border and private equity deals. He advised several strategic investors as well as national and international private equity houses on small, mid-size and major LBOs, MBOs, secondary buy-outs and management equity participation programs.

Professional Background

Rainer Altfuldisch joined K&L Gates in February 2009 after working as a lawyer in the field of corporate finance/private equity at a leading international law firm in Frankfurt since 2005. Prior to this Rainer was a research fellow in an international Max Planck Research School.

  • advised Solidus Partners LLP and a group of investors on the management buy-out of the recycling company Der Grüne Punkt - Duales System Deutschland GmbH an its subsidiaries from the US investor Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
  • advised global software company BancTec on the acquisition of Beta Systems Software AG's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) business
  • advised Continental Automotive GmbH on the sale of its global public transit solutions business to Trapeze Software Inc., a subsidiary of the Canadian company Constellation Software Inc
  • advised The Carlyle Group on German aspects of the acquisition of the cash system business of De La Rue plc
  • advised CVC Capital Partners on the disposal of their stake in the sanitation service provider ADCO Umweltdienste Holding GmbH (Toi Toi and Dixi brands) to the Belgian Amcotec group
  • advised private equity investor HgCapital on the sale of Schenck Process, a global market leader in industrial weighing, feeding, screening and automation solutions, to Industri Kapital
  • advised HgCapital on the acquisition of a majority stake in SLV Group, a leading European manufacturer of lighting systems
  • advised Automotive Sealing Systems S.A., a portfolio company of the private equity house CVC Capital Partners, on the sale of Metzeler Automotive Profile Systems (MAPS) sealing systems operations to Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc.
  • advised European private equity fund STAR Capital Partners in connection with the acquisition of a majority stake in Abellio GmbH, a leading operator of transport services in Germany