Lawyers, Corporate & Group Law, Mergers & Acquisitions SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH

Dr. Max Hirschberger, LL.M.

Dr. Max Hirschberger (partner) works in the areas company law, M&A (including real estate transactions) and restructuring. He started his career with BMW where he was head of the corporate and international legal department. As a member of the Group Executive Board of Deutsche Telekom AG, he was then in charge of corporate strategy, new business development, legal, organization and internal audit. Since 2003, Dr. Max Hirschberger has been active as an attorney in Frankfurt and, together with his team, has extensive experience in his areas of legal expertise based on a great number of transactions with national and international clients. In total, Dr. Max Hirschberger handled transactions with a value of over 120 bn €. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Regensburg.

Fields of Expertise

Education

University of Regensburg (Dr. iur.)
Université de Lausanne
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (LL.M.)

ADDRESS MATTERS PUBLICATIONS MISCELLANEOUS LANGUAGES

ADDRESS

Dr. Max Hirschberger

E-MAIL Max.Hirschberger(at)sza.de

Frankfurt

SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
Taunusanlage 1
60329 Frankfurt
PHONE +49 69 976 9601 351
FAX +49 69 976 9601 102

MATTERS

Advisor to Neo Capital Ltd., London and Dubai, on the acquisition of an office property in Frankfurt by way of a share and forward deal
Advisor to the Frankfurt airport operator Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide on its disposal of a minority stake in the operator of the airport Hannover-Langenhagen (volume more than 100 m €)
Advisor to an investor consortium from the Gulf-States on the mezzanine financing of a highrise project in Frankfurt (volume appr. 30 m €)
Advisor to Zug Invest GmbH on the acquisition, financing and sale of the multi-tenant project “Galileo” at TUM Munich (volume exceeding 130 m €)
Advisor to a SDAX company on the sale of a former research center and the discharge of the existing lease financing
Advisor to Monsanto on questions regarding German law during the takeover by Bayer AG (volume exceeding 60 bn €)
Advisor to CFH Investment Banking on the acquisition of an office property in Munich (volume more than 35 m €)
Advisor to CFH Investment Banking on the acquisition of an office property with the German headquarters of the Swatch-Group in Frankfurt in a share and forward deal (volume 21 m €)
Advisor to CFH Investment Banking on the acquisition of an office property in Neu-Isenburg in a share deal for 40 m €
Advisor to CFH Investment Banking on the acquisition of an office property in Frankfurt with the German headquarters of Arrow Electronics and its later sale (volume 50 m €)
Advisor to CFH Investment Banking on the acquisition of an office property with the German headquarters of SAP for about 50 m € along a Share- and Forward-Deal
Advisor to a North-American investor regarding a housing project of approx. 1,300 apartments in Berlin (acquisition and sale)
Advisor to a family group of a well-known German food company during reorganization of its shareholder structure (volume appr. 750 m €)
Advisor to shareholders of a company from the hydraulics industry on the sale of the company to a strategic investor
Advisor to a Chinese private-equity-investor on the acquisition of a company from the cosmetic industry
Advisor to a German construction supplies company on the acquisition of a business in Georgia
Advisor to Novabase, SGPS S.A. on the restructuring of its German business activities and on the sale of various business segments
Advisor to the Mexican family office Tresalia Capital S.A. de C.V. on the acquisition and later sale of Artega Automobil GmbH & Co KG
Advisor to Varta Microbattery on its reorganization
Advisor to a joint venture from the automotive industry on its restructuring
Advisor to a private-equity-investor on the restructuring of equity and the financing of a group of companies in the automotive supply industry
Advisor to various real estate funds on a number of real estate transactions (acquisition and sale of residential and commercial properties valued at more than 3 bn €)
Advisor and structuring of the acquisition of a residential real estate portfolio comprising approximately 3,000 apartments by Wohnbau GmbH, GBW AG, Volkswohnung GmbH
Advisor to GBW AG on the takeover of shares in four residential real estate companies with approximately 30,0000 apartments in Bavaria

PUBLICATIONS

Lending administrative agencies - term and legality (dissertation 1989)
Application of release procedure to disputed capital increases and corporate contracts under the UMAG statue (review of court decision) (Betriebsberater 2006, 460; together with Dr. Christof Aha)
The release procedure for resolutions adopted in general meetings of stockholders according to the draft bill corporate integrity and modernization of shareholder rights; The end for 'predatory stockholders'? (Der Betrieb 2004, 1137 seq.; together with Dr. Lothar Weiler)

MISCELLANEOUS

Head of Corporate Legal department of BMW AG (1987-1997)
Head of the Group Office, Group Strategy and member of the Group Executive Board of Deutsche Telekom AG (1997-2002)
Lecturer at the law school of the University of Regensburg concerning corporate acquisitions and international transactions
Member of the German-American Lawyers' Association
Member of the German-Argentinean Lawyers' Association
Member of the International Bar Association (IBA)

LANGUAGES

German
English
French
Spanish

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