Düsseldorf, February 10, 2017 – International law firm McDermott Will & Emery advised the shareholders of Allolio&Konrad on its sale to the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson. Allolio&Konrad is a consulting firm with headquarters in Bonn, Germany and is focused on transformation programs in the telecommunications industry. Allolio&Konrad also provides strategic consulting services.

McDermott Will & Emery Advisory Team (Düsseldorf): Dr. Jan Hückel (Corporate Law/M&A), Bettina Holzberger (Employment Law)

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 (February 7, 2017) – International law firm McDermott Will & Emery advises insolvency administrator, Professor Dr. Lucas F. Flöther, on the sale of UNISTER´s portal www.news.de to a Mittelstand family company. The purchaser already operates a broad spectrum of information service offerings, including a number of newspapers and journals. In addition, the purchaser has ownership interests in a number of radio stations and in a number of digital offerings.

The trademarks and the information technology structure were also sold as part of the sale, which includes the entire operational business. The creditors` committee has already agreed to the sale. The terms of the purchase price are confidential.

The team from McDermott was led by Düsseldorf partner Dr. Uwe Goetker, who represented the insolvency administrator last year in the sale of UNISTER´s travel business to the Czech company Rockaway and the sale of the online platforms www.shopping.de and www.preisvergleich.de.

Team Representing the Insolvency Administrator: Professor Dr. Lucas F. Flöther, Andreas Wissing, Hendrik Engelmann und Dr. Katharina Gelbrich

McDermott Advisers to the Insolvency Administrator: Dr. Uwe Goetker (M&A/Insolvency Law; Team Leader), Dr. Jan Hückel (M&A), Philipp Kutscher (M&A/Insolvency Law, Düsseldorf), Dr. Wolfgang von Frentz, Dr. Christian Masch und Dr. Oliver Fischer (Intellectual Property, Munich).

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.

McDermott Will & Emery advised insolvency administrator Prof. Dr. Lucas F. Flöther on the sale of the portal www.preisvergleich.de of the UNISTER Group to GET AG. GET AG is an information service provider based in Leipzig, which will take over the 13 employees of the online portal and keep its headquarters in Leipzig.

The full press release is in German.

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.

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.

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