Thilo Zimmermann
Counsel, Frankfurt
Overview
Professional experience
Education and qualifications
Published works
Overview
Specialised experience in advising clients on cross-border M&A transactions, private equity transactions and corporate law.
Work highlights
Transactions of significance where substantial involvement can be disclosed have included advising:
- Vodafone: advising on the strategic partnership with GIP and KKR for Vantage Towers.
- Schaeffler AG: advising on the acquisition of Ewellix Group from an affiliate of Triton Fund V.
- GlobalWafers: advising on the public takeover offer for Siltronic AG.
- McKesson: advising on the sale of part of its European businesses to PHOENIX groupand the sale of a number of other national businesses to different purchasers.
- Worldline: advising on the contribution of its payment services business in Germany and Austria to PAYONE as well as the sale of PAYONE Switzerland to Worldline.
- The German Federal States of Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein: advising on the sale and related privatisation of HSH Nordbank.
Professional experience
Thilo has worked for Linklaters since 2010 and was appointed Counsel in 2020.
Education and qualifications
Thilo made a vocational training at Deutsche Bank. He studied law at Bucerius Law School Hamburg and at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.
He speaks German and English.Published works
- “Payment of fines imposed on executive board members”, Rönnau/Samson (Publisher), Wirtschaftsstrafrecht aus der Sicht der Strafverteidigung (White Collar Crimes from a Defense Lawyers Perspective), Carl Heymanns, Cologne 2003