Dr. Tobias Franz

About Dr. Tobias Franz

Tobias Franz is a principal associate in our tax department. He advises clients on transactions (including real estate and distressed transactions), legal disputes with tax authorities and counterparties, tax provisions in diverse agreements and corporate successions.

Recent work

• Advising Deutsche Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH on the sale of its share in the DDV Media Group
• Advising Villeroy & Boch AG on the acquisition of the Ideal Standard Group from Anchorage Capital Group and CVC Credit
• Advising KOSTAL Group on the acquisition of material assets of the Compleo Group from insolvency
• Advising Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd. on the acquisition of a majority share in DiaSys Diagnostic Systems GmbH
• Advising Razor Group on the acquisition of the Stryze Group
• Advising Razor Group on the acquisition of the Valoreo Group
• Advising fintech company Penta and its shareholders on the acquisition of Penta by the French fintech company Qonto
• Advising House of HR and its management on the acquisition of House of HR by Bain Capital Private Equity
• Advising Eppendorf SE on the sale of a micro manipulation product portfolio to Calibre Scientific
• Advising Evotec SE on the acquisition of Central Glass Germany GmbH from Japanese chemical manufacturing company Central Glass Co. Ltd.
• Advising Continental AG on the acquisition of the printing technology business of the Trelleborg Group
• Advising A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S on the sale of their participation in Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven and Rail Terminal Wilhelmshaven to Hapag-Lloyd AG
• Advising bondholder on the sale of Breeze Three Energy to Statkraft
• Advising ams-OSRAM on the sale of its digital systems business unit to Inventronics
• Advising ams-OSRAM on the sale of its division Traxon Technologies to the Prosperity Group
• Advising Evotec SE on its Nasdaq listing
• Advising A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S on the acquisition of Senator International group
• Advising Continental AG on complex reorganisations (inter alia, relating to the separation of the Vitesco business)
• Advising Grünenthal on the acquisition of Mestex AG
• Advising MYR GmbH on its acquisition by Gilead Sciences, Inc.
• Advising Antirion SGR on the acquisition of the headquarter of Thales Deutschland from Samsung
• Advising AXA IM - Real Assets on the acquisition of a portfolio of eleven hotels from Principal Real Estate
• Advising AXA IM - Real Assets on a joint venture with Sirius Real Estate Ltd.
• Advising Aurubis AG on the acquisition of Metallo Group from Towerbrook Capital Partners
• Advising Freudenberg SE on the sale of its IT business unit to Canadian IT company Syntax
• Advising HSH Nordbank AG (now: Hamburg Commercial Bank AG) i.a. on its privatisation
• Advising Liberty Global plc i.a. on the sale of the Unitymedia Group to Vodafone