Dr. Anna-Livia von Lüdinghausen

Anna-Livia has specialised experience in advising clients in the context of national and international M&A transactions, joint ventures, restructurings as well as on matters of corporate law, including corporate governance issues and compliance.

Work highlights:

Anna-Livia has advised on many market-leading M&A deals. These include:

• Silgan Holdings: advising on the acquisition of Weener Packaging as well as on the acquisition of the closures and dispensing systems business of WestRock Group and on other corporate actions.
• Thyssenkrupp: advising on entering into a strategic partnership with the EP Corporate Group through the sale of 20% of the shares in the steel division.
• Vodafone: advising on (i) the strategic partnership with GIP and KKR regarding Vantage Towers as well as (ii) the contribution of its German fibre business to a joint venture with Altice Group.
• Jean Goldschmidt International: advising as part of a consortium on the acquisition of the zinc recycling business of the insolvent Harz-Metall GmbH (Recylex Group).
• Masco und Hansgrohe: advising on the acquisition of a majority stake of Easy Sanitary Solutions B.V.
• Acerinox: advising on the acquisition of nickel materials producer VDM Metals.
• TRATON: Advising TRATON Financial Services and TRATON SE on the acquisition of part of the financial services business from MAN and Volkswagen Truck & Bus from Volkswagen Financial Services AG.
• Santander Consumer Finance: advising on the establishment of a strategic joint venture with Hyundai Capital Group, Hyundai Capital Bank Europe GmbH.
• WGZ BANK: advising on its merger with DZ BANK.
• Deutsche Börse: advising on the acquisition of 360T Group.
• Erste Abwicklungsanstalt: advising on the acquisition of Portigon Financial Services GmbH, on the sale of WestFonds Immobilien-Anlagegesellschaft to HCI Capital AG (now Ernst Russ AG) and on the sale of Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank to AAREAL Bank.

Anna-Livia works at Linklaters since 2014 and was appointed Managing Associate in 2018.

In 2015 she was on secondment at Deutsche Börse AG.

She is a member of Gesellschaftsrechtliche Vereinigung (VGR), the German Korean Law Association, the German Association of Female Lawyers and Working Moms Düsseldorf e.V.

Anna-Livia studied law at the University of Cologne and at the University of Seville, Spain. She holds a PhD from the University of Cologne.

She completed her legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Cologne, Germany, with stages at the German-Korean Chamber of Commerce in Seoul, South Korea, in the legal department of UBS Europe SE in Frankfurt, Germany, as well as at Linklaters in Düsseldorf and London.

• Influence of third parties through approval reservations. An examination of the admissibility of contractual approval reservations with regard to the management autonomy of the executive board of a German Stock Corporation, 2018 (Nomos, Studien zum Handels-, Arbeits- und Wirtschaftsrecht, Band 178).