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Dr. Thomas Lappe

Partner
+49.(0).30.220.029.230
Fax +49.(0).30.220.029.499

Thomas is a partner in the firm's Berlin office and focuses his practice on mergers & acquisitions. He has broad experience in advising industrial clients and private equity houses on private and public mergers & acquisitions, leveraged buyout transactions, venture capital transactions, international joint ventures and corporate restructurings. His practice is largely international.

Thomas is recognized as a leading practitioner in legal directories such as Chambers Europe and Legal 500 Germany.

Professional Background

Thomas joined K&L Gates in January 2007. From 2005 through 2006 he was partner with an international law firm in their Berlin office. From 2001 through 2005 he worked for an international law firm in their Hamburg office and from 1996 through 2001 as a transactional in-house counsel for a DAX 30 company.

Professional/Civic Activities

  • Gesellschaftsrechtliche Vereinigung
  • International Bar Association
  • German Bar Association

Additional Information

Thomas frequently publishes on corporate law and M&A and is a regular speaker on these topics (e.g. with Management Circle, BeckAkademie Seminare).

  • Microsoft in the sale of the European comparison shopping platform Ciao.de
  • Continental AG in the sale of its worldwide public transport solution business
  • VTG AG in the acquisition of Graaff's waggon construction business and in the acquisition of the Railcraft group in Northeastern Europe
  • BancTec in the acquisition of Beta Systems Software AG's global Enterprise Content Management (ECM) business
  • Russian investor in buying shares in K+S AG
  • Strategic Value Partners in the acquisition of the office and commercial building “Q207” in Berlin's Friedrichstraße
  • Mondi AG in various M&A transactions
  • US private equity house in its public to private bid for a German health care company
  • La Seda de Barcelona in the German aspects of the acquisition of the Amcor Pet packaging business
  • Bilfinger Berger AG in its public takeover of Rheinhold & Mahla AG (including the subsequent squeeze-out of the minority shareholders) and in its acquisition of Babcock Borsig Service GmbH
  • Royal Dutch Shell in the formation of its solar energy joint venture with Saint-Gobain
  • TUI AG in its sale of VTG AG and in its disposal of Lehnkering GmbH
  • Soros Private Equity Partners in its acquisition of the Bayer/Degussa polymer latex business
  • Petro-Canada in the German aspects of its acquisition of the Veba upstream oil assets