Dr. Andreas Herr
Dr. Andreas Herr advises German and international clients in the areas of corporate law, M&A, banking & finance and capital markets law.
In addition to advice of his clients in national as well as cross-border transactions, he focuses on advice to borrowers and lenders in various kinds of debt financings, including restructurings. Dr. Andreas Herr also has experience in advising on questions of regulatory law, in particular under the German Banking Act (KWG) and the German Capital Investment Code (KAGB).
In the course of his work as an attorney, Dr. Andreas Herr was seconded to an investment bank in London as well as to a leading German car manufacturer.
He's very pragmatic and straightforward.
Client, Chambers 2020
Mandates
- Family business in comprehensive restructuring, including refinancing of an existing syndicated loan agreement, reorganization of the group structure and sale of shareholdings
- ISARIA Wohnbau AG in the disposal of its real estate portfolio and the related platform to Deutsche Wohnen group
- Listed Swedish company in the acquisition of IT companies in Germany
- Advising the French asset manager Groupe La Française on the acquisition of the financial services institution Veritas Institutional and the capital management company Veritas Investment, including Holder Control proceedings with German regulator
- a German SE on refinancing of syndicated loan agreement
- a Saudi-Arabian investment company on various acquisition and project financings for German commercial real estate
- an investor in relation to the mezzanine financing of a German real estate project
- Daimler AG on various issues of group financing, including in connection with existing credit facilities, debt issuance programs and hedging agreements
- various borrowers in relation to restructuring of existing syndicated bank loan financings
- German family business on acquisition financing in the context of an asset deal
- Self-management of a medium-sized company in the implementation of a reorganization concept in a bidding process and sale of a subsidiary operating in the automotive sector out of the crisis to a private equity investor as well as separation of the target from an existing syndicated financing.
- Family business as borrower for syndicated loan agreements and promissory note loans with domestic and foreign banks
- Advising investors on their investment in start-up companies
- Südzucker on the issue of corporate bonds
- Various credit and financial services institutions as well as capital management companies on regulatory issues under the German Banking Act (KWG) and the German Capital Investment Code (KAGB).
- Barclays on the restructuring and sale of non-performing loan portfolios
- a leading German investment company in the conception and establishment of various closed-end funds
- Daimler AG on sale of block of shares in EADS and on derivative agreement to participate in future increase of EADS share price
- Daimler AG on transfer of various private equity investments to a Luxembourg SICAV-SIF
- Südzucker AG on various corporate and capital market law issues
- CropEnergies AG in an acquisition by way of a contribution in kind against the granting of new shares from authorized capital
- CropEnergies AG on joint venture with Tyczka
- listed company in a squeeze-out
- Freudenberg Group on group reorganization
- German SE on the transformation of legal form into a GmbH & Co. KGaA
- Goldman Sachs/Whitehall on acquisition of state-owned LEG NRW housing company
Publications
- The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Lending & Secured Finance 2021, Germany, S. 287 ff. (with Dr. Dietrich F. R. Stiller and Dr. Michael Maxim Cohen)
- Getting the Deal through: Market Intelligence - Project Finance in Germany, March 2019, S. 62 ff., with Dr. Dietrich Stiller and Dr. Michael Cohen
- Chambers Global Practice Guide 2019: Project Finance, Law and Practice, Nov 2018, S. 3 ff., with Dr. Dietrich Stiller, Dr. Michael Cohen and Stefanie Zugelder
- The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Lending & Secured Finance 2018, Chapter 47, S. 309 (gemeinsam mit Dr. Dietrich Stiller)
- Übertragungsrechte an Sportveranstaltungen in der Insolvenz, Dissertation, 2008
Education & Engagement
- Member of the Gesellschaftsrechtliche Vereinigung (VGR)
Education
- Ruprecht-Karls-University (Dr. iur.)
- Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (licence en droit)
- Investment Bank London, 2010 - 2011
- Languages: German, English, French
very knowledgeable and professional
Client (Chambers 2021)