Dr. Christoph Tamcke

Christoph has specialised experience in advising clients on national and international M&A as well as Private Equity and Venture Capital transactions, restructurings and corporate law. He also advises creditors and debtors on cross-border restructurings and questions on insolvency-related matters.

Work highlights

His recent experience includes: 

• Deutsche Energy Terminal GmbH (DET): Advising on the acquisition of all assets of the floating liquefied natural gas terminal in Brunsbüttel from RWE and Elbehafen LNG GmbH.
• Hella GmbH & Co KGaA: Advising on the termination of a joint venture for brake components and the acquisition of all shares in the joint venture company.

• Volkswagen: advising in connection with the IPO of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG.
• Unilever: advising on the sale of the tea business to CVC Partners.
• US investor: advising in connection with the development of hyperscaler data centers in the Rhine-Main region and Europe.
• AP Ventures: Financing round of Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies GmbH.
• Apax: advising on the sale of neuraxpharm
• Apax: advising on the acquisition of Rodenstock group
• Brexit-related: advising restructuring of a business unit of an international bank
• Financial investor: advising on the funding round of a FinTech
• KfW : advising on the rescue loan for airline Condor

• Lenders: advising on the restructuring and refinancing of a group of companies owned by Galapagos BidCo S.à r.l.
• Financial investor: advising on self-administration insolvency proceedings of portfolio companies
• Several industrial and service companies on Brexit-related questions

Christoph studied law at the Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen, the Universidad Pontificia Comillas Madrid and the Universität zu Köln. He holds a PhD from the Universität zu Köln.

• Going public - How does an IPO work?, JuS 2024, p. 654 - 659 (together with Daniel Adolph)
• Pre-contractual duties of disclosure when using a virtual data room - also comment on BGH Urt. v. 15.9.203 - V ZR 77/22, GWR 2023, p. 338 - 340 (together with Clemens Dembinski)
• Comment on Regional Court Frankfurt am Main, partial judgement of 23 October 2023 - 3-02 O 56/22 (contingency fee for M&A advice), NZG 2024, p. 217 - 272 (together with Clemens Dembinski)