Paul Melot de Beauregard and Carsten Böhm led a Munich and Frankfurt team that gave corporate, tax, IP and employment advice to INTERGLOBAL Industrieholding GmbH on the sale of its holdings in Harmonic Drive AG and Ovalo GmbH. The team included Christian Masch, Steffen Woitz, Nadine Hartung, Maximilian Baur, Kian Tauser and Nina Siewert.

Düsseldorf, 7. Februar 2017. – Die internationale Wirtschaftskanzlei McDermott Will & Emery hat Insolvenzverwalter Prof. Dr. Lucas F. Flöther beim Verkauf des Portals www.news.de des UNISTER-Konzerns an ein mittelständisches Familienunternehmen beraten. Bei dem Erwerber handelt es sich um ein mittelständisches Familienunternehmen, das bereits ein breites Spektrum an Informationsangeboten betreibt, darunter zahlreiche Anzeigenblätter. Darüber hinaus ist der Käufer an regionalen Radiosendern sowie an mehreren Digitalangeboten beteiligt.

Mit dem Kauf gehen auch die Markenrechte und die IT-Struktur an das Familienunternehmen, das den gesamten Geschäftsbetrieb übernimmt. Der Gläubigerausschuss hat der Veräußerung bereits zugestimmt. Über den Kaufpreis wurde Stillschweigen vereinbart.

Das Team von McDermott unter der Federführung des Düsseldorfer Partners Dr. Uwe Goetker hatte den Insolvenzverwalter schon im vergangenen Jahr beim Verkauf des UNISTER-Travelgeschäfts an die tschechische Rockaway und die Online-Plattformen www.shopping.de und www.preisvergleich.de beraten.

Team Insolvenzverwalter: Prof. Dr. Lucas F. Flöther, Andreas Wissing, Hendrik Engelmann und Dr. Katharina Gelbrich

Berater Insolvenzverwalter: McDermott Will & Emery: Dr. Uwe Goetker (M&A/Insolvenzrecht; Federführung), Dr. Jan Hückel (M&A), Philipp Kutscher (M&A/Insolvenzrecht, alle Düsseldorf), Dr. Wolfgang von Frentz, Dr. Christian Masch und Dr. Oliver Fischer (alle Gew. Rechtsschutz, München)

McDermott Will & Emery
McDermott Will & Emery ist eine führende internationale Anwaltssozietät. Mit über 1.000 Rechtsanwälten sind wir an folgenden Standorten weltweit vertreten: Boston, Brüssel, Chicago, Dallas, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt a. M., Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Mailand, München, New York, Orange County, Paris, Rom, Seoul, Silicon Valley und Washington, DC. Es besteht eine strategische Allianz mit MWE China Law Offices in Shanghai. Die deutsche Praxis wird von der McDermott Will & Emery Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater LLP geführt.

McDermott Will & Emery is a premier international law firm with a diversified business practice. Numbering more than 1,000 lawyers, we have offices in Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Dallas, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Munich, New York, Orange County, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Silicon Valley and Washington, DC. Further extending our reach into Asia, we have a strategic alliance with MWE China Law Offices in Shanghai.

Düsseldorf, 6. Februar 2017. – Die internationale Wirtschaftskanzlei McDermott Will &

Emery hat Insolvenzverwalter Prof. Dr. Lucas F. Flöther beim Verkauf des Portals www.preisvergleich.de des UNISTER-Konzerns an die GET AG beraten. Die GET AG ist ein Informationsdienstleister mit Sitz in Leipzig, der die 13 Mitarbeiter des Online-Portals übernimmt und am Sitz Leipzig festhalten will.

Mit dem Kauf gehen auch die Markenrechte und die IT-Struktur an die GET AG. Die Gläubiger der veräußernden Gesellschaften des UNISTER-Konzerns haben der Veräußerung bereits zugestimmt. Über den Kaufpreis wurde Stillschweigen vereinbart.

Das Team von McDermott unter der Federführung des Düsseldorfer Partners Dr. Uwe Goetker hatte den Insolvenzverwalter schon im vergangenen Jahr beim Verkauf des UNISTER-Travelgeschäfts an die tschechische Rockaway und der Online-Plattform www.shopping.de beraten.

Team Insolvenzverwalter:

Prof. Dr. Lucas F. Flöther, Andreas Wissing, Hendrik Engelmann und Dr. Katharina Gelbrich

Berater Insolvenzverwalter:

McDermott Will & Emery: Dr. Uwe Goetker (M&A/Insolvenzrecht; Federführung), Dr. Jan

Hückel (M&A), Philipp Kutscher (M&A/Insolvenzrecht, alle Düsseldorf), Dr. Wolfgang von

Frentz, Dr. Christian Masch und Dr. Oliver Fischer (alle Gew. Rechtsschutz, München)

McDermott Will & Emery
McDermott Will & Emery ist eine führende internationale Anwaltssozietät. Mit über 1.000 Rechtsanwälten sind wir an folgenden Standorten weltweit vertreten: Boston, Brüssel, Chicago, Dallas, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt a. M., Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Mailand, München, New York, Orange County, Paris, Rom, Seoul, Silicon Valley und Washington, DC. Es besteht eine strategische Allianz mit MWE China Law Offices in Shanghai. Die deutsche Praxis wird von der McDermott Will & Emery Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater LLP geführt.

WASHINGTON, DC (January 30, 2017) — McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to welcome Mary Strimel to the Firm’s Washington, DC office as a partner in the Antitrust Practice Group.

Ms. Strimel joins McDermott from the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) where she served as Chief of one of two Antitrust Criminal Enforcement sections in Washington, DC. In this role, she led a group of DOJ attorneys who investigated and litigated cases involving price-fixing, bid-rigging, contract fraud, and other white collar crimes. Prior to becoming Section Chief, Ms. Strimel served in the Antitrust Division’s Networks and Technology Enforcement Section where she investigated and litigated proposed mergers across various sectors, including, but not limited to: alcoholic beverages, computer software, consumer products, financial services, government procurement, tax services, and telecommunications. Earlier in her career, Ms. Strimel spent several years in private practice at a class action firm where she managed a nationwide docket of multi-jurisdictional matters.

“Mary is one of the most skilled and experienced antitrust attorneys in Washington,” said Ray Jacobsen, head of McDermott’s Antitrust Group. “Her background positions her to provide clients with sophisticated and up-to-date guidance on DOJ enforcement policies while helping to guide them through mergers and other DOJ and FTC investigations. We have long respected and admired her capabilities, and we are delighted that she has joined us.”

“Mary’s high-level DOJ experience will enhance our ability to respond to increasing client demand for guidance on the latest DOJ enforcement policies,” said white collar attorney and DC partner, Paul Thompson. “Her skillset will be a great complement to our antitrust and white collar lawyers who continue to join forces in defending clients facing criminal investigations.”

Ms. Strimel is joining McDermott’s highly-ranked antitrust practice, which, for the fifth consecutive year was listed among the “Global Elite” top twenty-five antitrust firms by Global Competition Review. She will be practicing alongside McDermott’s group of antitrust lawyers who consistently receive top rankings in various publications including: Chambers, The Legal 500, Benchmark Litigation, and Best Lawyers in America.

Ms. Strimel is also joining an expanding DC office. Carolyn Gleason, partner-in-charge of McDermott’s Washington office, notes that “Mary’s arrival continues the hiring momentum we have achieved in the DC office over the past year and enhances the services we are able to offer clients – we couldn’t be more thrilled to have her as part of our team.”

Ms. Strimel received her JD from Harvard Law School.

About McDermott Will & Emery
McDermott Will & Emery is a premier international law firm with a diversified business practice. Numbering more than 1,000 lawyers, we have offices in Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Dallas, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Munich, New York, Orange County, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Silicon Valley and Washington, DC. Further extending our reach into Asia, we have a strategic alliance with MWE China Law Offices in Shanghai.

NEW YORK (January 10, 2017) – International law firm McDermott Will & Emery represented the leading specialty chemicals company Evonik Industries AG in its acquisition of the worldwide Performance Materials Division of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. for $3.8 billion. The transaction, initially announced on May 6, 2016, was successfully completed on January 3, 2017.

McDermott advised Evonik as lead outside counsel on all key aspects of the transaction, which Evonik has said will put Evonik in an excellent position for further profitable growth in the attractive specialty additives market.

McDermott’s core deal team consisted of US partners Thomas Sauermilch, Brian Hoffmann, Elissa Port, Meir Lewittes and Ling Kong (Corporate); Diane Morgenthaler, Maureen O’Brien and Steve Erf (Employee Benefits/Employment); Daphne Trotter (Environmental); Raymond Jacobsen, Joel Grosberg, Andrea Hamilton and William Diaz (Antitrust); Ankur Gupta (Real Estate), Daniel Zucker (Tax) and Carey Jordan (IP) and involved numerous other specialists in McDermott’s offices worldwide.

“We’re pleased to have been working with our client Evonik in this high-profile strategic acquisition,” said Mr. Sauermilch, a New York partner who has led a number of large cross-border M&A deals involving European companies. “It highlights McDermott’s ability to field a large international deal team covering all key facets of a large cross-border transaction,” he added.

McDermott’s M&A practice combines its market knowledge and deal execution skills to help clients achieve their transactional strategies. Many of our clients’ deals have a cross-border dimension. With offices located in Asia, Europe and the United States, we have the ability to represent clients’ transactional needs globally regardless of jurisdiction. Moreover, we possess deep industry knowledge in key markets, including energy, telecommunications, media and technology, chemicals, aerospace and defense, mining and metals, life sciences, food and beverage, and health care. What distinguishes McDermott’s M&A capabilities is our team work and comprehensive transactional offering – regulatory and antitrust, environmental, tax, labor and employment, intellectual property, financing and, when necessary, litigation – with those services provided by highly recognized and ranked lawyers.

About McDermott Will & Emery
McDermott Will & Emery is a premier international law firm with a diversified business practice. Numbering more than 1,000 lawyers, we have offices in Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Dallas, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Munich, New York, Orange County, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Silicon Valley and Washington, DC. Further extending our reach into Asia, we have a strategic alliance with MWE China Law Offices in Shanghai.

PARIS (January 6, 2017) — International law firm McDermott Will & Emery advised French-based Servier, an international pharmaceutical company, in its license option agreement with OSE Immunotherapeutics on the exclusive worldwide rights for the development and commercialization of the Effi-7 product. Effi-7 is a monoclonal immunomodulatory antibody.

OSE Immunotherapeutics is eligible to receive up to €272 million upon the exercise of a two-steps option license. These steps will enable the development of Effi-7 up to the completion of a phase 2 clinical trial planned in ulcerative colitis, an autoimmune bowel disease.

The McDermott team advising on the transaction comprised of Paris-based partners Emmanuelle Trombe and Anthony Paronneau, along with associates Raphaëlle Monjou and Louise Aberg.

McDermott’s Life Sciences Group works with clients to structure collaborative arrangements among emerging life sciences companies, established pharmaceutical and biotech companies and researchers and research institutions. These arrangements range from licensing technology to and from academic medical centers, universities and other research institutions, to complex strategic alliances among life sciences companies to achieve varied financial, research and development, manufacturing and distribution objectives. The Firm’s long-term experience in advising pharmaceuticals and agrochemical companies on taxation issues allows us to devise structures and tax plans for life sciences companies who wish to be attractive partners or acquisition candidates for the pharmaceutical industry.

About McDermott Will & Emery
McDermott Will & Emery is a premier international law firm with a diversified business practice. Numbering more than 1,100 lawyers, we have offices in Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Munich, New York, Orange County, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Silicon Valley and Washington, DC. Further extending our reach into Asia, we have a strategic alliance with MWE China Law Offices in Shanghai.

Chicago (September 30, 2016) – International law firm McDermott Will & Emery represented H.I.G. Capital, a leading private equity investment team, in its acquisition of Symplicity Corporation, a leading provider of SaaS-based solutions to employers, government agencies, colleges and graduate school programs.

H.I.G. Capital is a global private equity investment firm with over $20 billion of equity capital under management.

Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Symplicity sells SaaS-based solutions to over 1,200 colleges and graduate school programs that help manage all aspects of a student’s life on campus.

McDermott also handled the structuring, negotiation, documentation and execution of a senior secured term loan and revolving credit facilities with Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group, L.P., as administrative agent, collateral agent, lead arranger, syndication agent and documentation agent.

The McDermott team included lawyers from the Firm’s corporate, tax, finance, employment, health, IP, white collar, antitrust, trial and government strategies practices, including Brooks Gruemmer (corporate), Robert Clagg (corporate), Daniel Zucker (tax), Maureen O’Brien (employee benefits), Kristin Michaels (trial), Joshua Buchman (white collar & securities defense), Jennifer Mikulina (IP), Sarah Hogan (health), Carla Hine (antitrust) and James Kim (government strategies).

The McDermott finance team was led by corporate partners Stephanie McCann and Kathy Schumacher.

McDermott’s Corporate & Transactional Practice represents business interests around the world, from global corporations and industry-leading companies to privately funded and entrepreneurial driven enterprises, as well as the financial institutions that support them. McDermott consistently ranks in the leading league tables, including Mergermarket, Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg and PitchBook. The Corporate & Transactional Practice Group was named “Team of the Year” for Middle Market M&A/Buyouts by The Legal 500 and is highly ranked in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom by various Chambers.

About McDermott Will & Emery
McDermott Will & Emery is a premier international law firm with a diversified business practice. Numbering more than 1,000 lawyers, we have offices in Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Dallas, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Munich, New York, Orange County, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. Further extending our reach into Asia, we have a strategic alliance with MWE China Law Offices in Shanghai.

NEW YORK (September 19, 2016) – International Law Firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP was named “North American Tax Firm of the Year” at International Tax Review’s Americas Tax Awards 2016. The awards were presented at a ceremony held on September 15, in New York. The Americas Tax Awards recognize the most outstanding provision of tax services in North and South America, in particular those which break new legal grounds and set market precedents.

Additionally, Jane May, head of McDermott’s State and Local Tax group, was honored as Americas Indirect Tax Practice Leader of the Year. This honor is awarded to the lawyer who most demonstrates an outstanding record of achievement at leading their team in complex innovative tax work for clients, and developing their firm’s practice in the area of state and local tax.

The Firm also received the honors of four other prestigious awards: Americas Tax Firm of the Year, North America Indirect Tax Firm of the Year, Americas Consumer Products Tax Deal of the Year, and Chicago Tax Firm of the Year.

“We are exceptionally proud to have been recognized with such prestigious honors at this year’s Americas Awards,” said McDermott co-chairs Jeffrey E. Stone and Peter J. Sacripanti. “These honors confirm our commitment to excellence and unceasing dedication to client service.”

Overall, McDermott was nominated in 14 categories, varying across a wide spectrum of tax law across the Americas. Attending the ceremony and accepting these awards on behalf of the firm were partners Jane May, John Lutz and Mike Fayhee.

McDermott Will & Emery’s Tax Practice Group includes more than 250 lawyers practicing in the areas of US and international taxation, estate and gift taxation, state and local taxation, and employee benefits. Among this group of exceptional lawyers is our US & International Tax group, comprised of 100 lawyers in the US, Europe and Asia, who provide counsel in all areas of taxation to a wide range of public and private multinational companies with operations in more than 70 countries. They assist with mergers and acquisitions, domestic and international tax planning, internal restructurings, transfer pricing, controversies, joint ventures, legislative matters and compliance.

McDermott was named “Tax Law Firm of the Year” in the 2016 “Best Law Firms” survey published by U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers. This is the second time in four years that the Firm has received this prestigious recognition. McDermott was also named “Law Firm of the Year in Tax Litigation” in 2014, “Law Firm of the Year in Tax Law” in 2013 and “Law Firm of the Year in Employee Benefits” in 2012, all in the Best Law Firms rankings published by U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers.

About McDermott Will & Emery
McDermott Will & Emery is a premier international law firm with a diversified business practice. Numbering more than 1,000 lawyers, we have offices in Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Dallas, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Munich, New York, Orange County, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Silicon Valley and Washington, DC. Further extending our reach into Asia, we have a strategic alliance with MWE China Law Offices in Shanghai.

Düsseldorf, 12. September 2016. – Die internationale Wirschaftskanzlei McDermott Will & Emery hat die Barnet Europe W. Barnet GmbH & Co. KG beim Verkauf ihres Polymer-Geschäfts an die Albis Plastic GmbH beraten. Der Verkauf fand im Zuge der Gründung eines Joint Ventures der Mutterunternehmen William Barnet & Son LLC und der Albis Plastics Corporation in den USA als Asset Deal statt. McDermott wurde erstmals nach Empfehlung durch einen anderen Mandanten für Barnet tätig.

Berater Barnet Europe W. Barnet GmbH & Co. KG:

McDermott Will & Emery (Düsseldorf): Matthias Kampshoff (Federführung); Marc Oberhardt, Thiemo Schäfer (Corporate); Nina Siewert (Tax); Sandra Urban-Crell (Arbeitsrecht).

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McDermott Will & Emery ist eine führende internationale Anwaltssozietät. Mit über 1.000 Rechtsanwälten sind wir an folgenden Standorten weltweit vertreten: Boston, Brüssel, Chicago, Dallas, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt a. M. Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Mailand, München, New York, Orange County, Paris, Rom, Seoul, Silicon Valley und Washington, D.C.. Es besteht eine strategische Allianz mit MWE China Law Offices in Shanghai. Die deutsche Praxis wird von der McDermott Will & Emery Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater LLP geführt. www.mwe.com.

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