Carsten Böhm and Kian Tauser provided corporate and tax advice to company management as the European arm of US financial investor Trilantic acquired hospital specialist Klinikverbund Oberberg Group from its German investment company owner.

Es dürfte der größte Immobiliendeal sein, den Deutschland bislang in diesem Jahr gesehen hat: Die Karstadt-Eigentümerin Signa – genauer gesagt: deren Tochter Signa Prime Selection – erwirbt für rund 1,5 Milliarden Euro ein Portfolio an prestigeträchtigen Kaufhäusern.

Carsten Böhm and Germar Enders led the Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Munich corporate, tax, labor, antitrust and IP team that advised LED lighting company MBN GmbH’s managing director on selling 51% of the company’s shares to German private equity firm Perusa. The team included Björn Biehl, Ralf Richter, Markus Hill, Paul Melot de Beauregard, Maximilian Baur, Oliver Hahnelt, Daniel von Brevern, Steffen Woitz, Thomas Beiske, Philipp Berrsche and Alexa Ningelgen.

Die internationale Wirtschaftskanzlei McDermott Will & Emery hat Bernd Menrad beim Verkauf von 51% der Anteile an der MBN GmbH an das deutsche Private-Equity Unternehmen Perusa GmbH beraten.

Stephen Kranz and Diann Smith addressed South Dakota’s certiorari petition asking the US Supreme Court to hear a case that could overturn the Quill state tax nexus standard. “The petition uses the idea of congressional legislation as a possible out as a reason why the Court should accept the case now,” Ms. Smith noted, while Mr. Kranz added that “there’s a good chance this case gets taken. And there’s a much lower chance Congress does anything in the meantime,” resulting in a “fair number” of possible outcomes.

Russell Hayman, Jon Dean, Rita Yoon and Sarah Walters were noted for their successful resolution of a five-year antitrust lawsuit brought by a Danish competitor against headset maker Plantronics. The federal jury verdict in Delaware resolved a dispute with as much as $600 million at stake

Russell Hayman, Jon Dean, Rita Yoon and Sarah Walters were named “Legal Lions” of the week after a jury cleared their client Plantronics of claims asserted by a competitor in a $600 million antitrust trial. The Delaware jury found after a weeklong trial that any so-called Plantronics-only distributors did not violate the Sherman and Clayton Acts.

Russell Hayman, Jon Dean, Rita Yoon and Sarah Walters successfully represented headset maker Plantronics Inc. in a Delaware jury trial of antitrust claims asserted by a competitor. The jury took little more than an hour to come to its decision in the trial, which involved an estimated $600 million in damage claims.

Russell Hayman told a Delaware jury that a $600 million antitrust claim against headset maker Plantronics by competitor GN Netcom was “laughable” and “baloney,” and suggested the jury should only need “five minutes of deliberations” to reject the claim. “Where is the end user who couldn’t find a GN headset?” Mr. Hayman asked regarding the plaintiff’s claims of market restriction. Jon Dean,Rita Yoon and Sarah Walters are also McDermott counsel for Plantronics.

Stephen Kranz, addressing possible federal elimination of the state & local tax deduction, said, “I’m just not convinced that the politics on this deduction are as simple as red versus blue states given there are taxpayers in every state who itemize for a variety of reasons.” Diann Smith suggested that the final result “will shake out based on whether, on balance, the rate reductions offset any lack of deductions for the state and local tax. Part of the challenge will be the messaging beforehand regarding what the net effect will be.”