Finance Monthly Deal Maker Awards 2017 Edition

www.finance-monthly.com 35 FINANCE MONTHLY DEAL MAKER AWARDS 2017 MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS MARTIN SINZGER Managing Partner of SIWE Rechtsanwälte ABOUT MARTIN SINZGER Martin Sinzger is the Managing Partner of SIWE Rechtsanwälte. He was graduated from the University of Passau and admitted to German court in 2001. Due to his prior employment by one of the top international law firms in Berlin Martin has wide experience in working on high-profile cases on behalf of individuals and corporations across a broad range of business matters. Specialised in complex commercial legal issues, Martin Sinzger masters the entire field of commercial counseling and transaction work including Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity, Joint Ventures, Corporate Finance and Corporate Restructurings. As an excellent negotiator, he is highly recognised for his expertise in German corporate and commercial law and very esteemed by his clients thanks to his significant experience in cross-border transactions. In recent years, Martin has participated in several M & A deals as legal advisor of Companies and Managers in Germany, UK, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Spain. Martin also has significant Commercial Litigation experience. He advises and represents commercial clients in arbitrations, mediations and other forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution in shareholders, Intellectual Property as well as corporate governance disputes. FIRM PROFILE SIWE Rechtsanwälte is an independent full service law firm with a focus on corporate and commercial law. The firm was founded in 2001 by Martin Sinzger and Susanne Laura Sinzger-Wegerhoff and has developed into a company of national and international renown. The firm`s core business comprises the full range of company and corporate law consulting and extends to all company related structural measures beginning from the start-up stage and culminating in counselling within a company crisis. SIWE Rechtsanwälte acts for a number of high-profile German based businesses – including several market leading companies in the fields of hosting, electronics, glass manufacturing, engineering, engine production and financial services. In the past years, SIWE Rechtsanwälte advised several managers on international and national transactions and acted on behalf of several shareholders in respect of purchases. Awarded for his involvement in the following transactions: GoDaddy to Acquire Host Europe Group TRANSACTION REPORT SIWE Rechtsanwälte acted on behalf of the management of the Host Europe Group (HEG) in respect of the purchase of the Group, executed by GoDaddy, which is the world`s largest domain registrar and one of the largest webhosters. The U.S. corporation acquired the HEG for 1.69 billion EUR and is expanding by way of latter purchase into the European market. Headquartered in Great Britain HEG does most of its business in Germany. In its core markets Great Britain and Germany HEG is serving more than 1.7 million clients – most of whom are mainly small and medium-sized enterprises – and has achieved recorded annual sales of 177 million EUR recently. Martin Sinzger and his team advised and supported the management of the Host Europe Group before, during and after the acquisition by GoDaddy CONTACT SIWE Rechtsanwälte Sinzger & Partner mbB Martin Sinzger – Senior Partner Tel. (+49) 851 988380 | Email: sinzger@si-we.de | www.si-we.de