Dennis Seifarth is an associate in the Munich office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is member of the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice Groups.
Dennis advises strategic and financial investors on mergers & acquisitions with a focus on private equity transactions. His experience includes complex, national and international corporate/M&A, private equity as well as venture capital investments for clients of various industries.
IFLR1000 lists him as Rising Star 2024 in the categories M&A and Private Equity in Germany.
Experience
Representative transactions* include advising:
- Astorg on the acquisition of hg medical from Nord Holding
- Triton on the acquisition of Arrowhead Industries
- Triton on the sale of Norres Group
- Advent International and Centerbridge on the public tender offer for Aareal Bank AG
- Triton on the sale of Meine Radiologie Holding to EQT Infrastructure
- Triton on its acquisition of a majority stake of Inwerk GmbH
- Gilead Sciences, Inc. on its acquisition of MYR GmbH (approx. €1.15B plus up to €300M milestone payment, named Deal of the Month by JUVE, February 2021)
- CENTROTEC SE on the acquisition of all shares of PARI Group
- Heska Corporation on the acquisition of scil animal care GmbH, a veterinary point of care laboratory and imaging diagnostics leader, from Covetrus, Inc.
- Triton on its acquisition of Lamina Technologies SA
- Advent International on its US$3.25B acquisition of Distributed Power Business from GE
- Schoeller on the partnering with Brookfield
- LGT on financing round in aviation start-up Lilium
- ProSiebenSat.1 on partnership with General Atlantic for NuCom
- Philipp Lahm Holding on investment in Schneekoppe
- ProSiebenSat.1 on acquisition of majority stake in Jochen Schweizer GmbH
- Qatar Solar Technologies on insolvency of SolarWorld and acquisition of SolarWorld’s assets
- ProSiebenSat.1 on acquisition of majority stake in Virtual Minds
- PAI Partners and Goldman Sachs on sale of Xella
- General Atlantic on investment in FlixBus and merger of Mein Fernbus with FlixBus
- Advise on sale of mytheresa.com to Neiman Marcus Group
- Goldman Sachs on acquisition of Flint Group in partnership with Koch Industries
- RHJ International on the Acquisition of BHF-Bank AG from Deutsche Bank
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, he worked in the Munich office of a renowned US law firm.
He studied law at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, from which he also received his doctor’s degree in 2015. Dennis has been admitted as a German lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) since 2013.
Dennis is fluent in German and English.
*Includes Experience Prior To Joining Gibson Dunn
Capabilities
Credentials
Education:
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena - 2015 Dr. jur.
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena - 2008 Law Degree
Admissions:
- Germany - Rechtsanwalt
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The M&A Lawyer: Corporate M&A in Times of the Corona Crisis – Specific Consequences of the Pandemic for the German Transaction Business
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Corporate M&A in Times of the Corona Crisis – Specific Consequences of the Pandemic for the German Transaction Business