Dechert strengthens PE practice with lateral partner Dominik Stühler

Munich — Dechert LLP streng­thens its Private Equity prac­tice with Domi­nik Stüh­ler as Late­ral Part­ner of the Corpo­rate & Secu­ri­ties prac­tice group in Munich.

Domi­nik Stühler’s advi­sory focus is on natio­nal and cross-border private equity and M&A tran­sac­tions. Mr. Stühler’s refe­rence clients include advi­sing Hg on the sale of STP Group, Apax Part­ners and port­fo­lio company Neur­ax­ph­arm Group on the acqui­si­tion of Bucco­lam®, Summit Part­ners on the IPOs of West­wing Group AG and Global Fashion Group, and PAI Part­ners on the acqui­si­tion of Armacell Group from Blackstone and on the propo­sed acqui­si­ti­ons of IFCO and of Ammer­aal Beltech.

Domi­nik Stüh­ler is high­ligh­ted by JUVE as a “frequently recom­men­ded” lawyer in the field of private equity. He is admit­ted to the German Bar and holds a double degree in law and busi­ness admi­nis­tra­tion from the Univer­sity of Regens­burg and an MBA from the Vlerick Busi­ness School in Leuven, Belgium.

“Domi­nik is a promi­nent newco­mer from the market. He brings exten­sive exper­tise in advi­sing private equity firms and stra­te­gic inves­tors on complex lever­a­ged buyouts, mergers and acqui­si­ti­ons and real estate tran­sac­tions, which will be of great value to our clients in Germany and around the world,” commen­ted Mark Thier­fel­der, head of Dechert’s Corpo­rate & Secu­ri­ties and Private Equity prac­tice group.

Feder­ico Pappalardo, Mana­ging Part­ner of Dechert’s Munich and Frank­furt offices, added: “Domi­nik is an excep­tio­nal lawyer. His talent and repu­ta­tion will help us further expand our private equity presence in Germany and throug­hout Europe.”

Dechert is one of the most active law firms in the private equity indus­try and has inves­ted signi­fi­cantly in expan­ding its global private equity plat­form to provide clients with compre­hen­sive advice where­ver they do busi­ness. The global team consists of more than 250 lawy­ers world­wide in 17 offices and repres­ents a growing number of more than 300 inter­na­tio­nal private equity firms, sove­reign wealth funds, family offices and other alter­na­tive asset managers.

Recent mandate high­lights led from Germany include advi­sing OneFoot­ball on its inno­va­tion part­ner­ship with the German Foot­ball Asso­cia­tion (DFB) and the acqui­si­tion of Dugout, a digi­tal media company jointly owned by 10 of the world’s largest soccer clubs; advi­sing Vesti­aire Coll­ec­tive on a €178 million finan­cing round with French luxury group Kering and U.S. tech­no­logy inves­tor Tiger Global Manage­ment; advi­sing Shur­gard Self Storage on its acqui­si­tion of Zeit­La­ger storage centers in Germany; and advi­sing Lazada on its multi-billion dollar sale to Alibaba.