your partner.
our team.
We assist our clients in lean partner-lead teams. Our advice is tailor-made and highly efficient. Our team members all have more than 25 experience in the area of corporate finance and strategic risk and governance advice. We are entrepreneurs ourselves and therefore know what our corporate clients care about.
Andreas F. Bauer
Founder and Managing Director
Andreas has more than 25 years of experience in corporate acquisitions, smaller and mid-size private equity transactions as well as corporate reorganizations. He acts for financial as well as strategic investors from a variety of sectors, with particular expertise in the automotive, energy, financial services, and healthcare industries. He has also acted in several real estate share deals with a transaction value of more than EUR 250 million. Andreas has particular expertise regarding ESG and CSR issues in M&A and PE transactions as well as in international cash pool issues. He is a frequent speaker and lecturer, among others at the INVEST EUROPE Academy and at the Commerzbank Treasury Symposium.
Representative Experience
- Representing the Italian eyewear producer Safilo SpA in its acquisition of Carrera Group;
- Representing Groupe Casino SA in its joint venture with Otto Group
- Representing Bormioli Rocco SpA in the restructuring and sale of Ruhr-Kristallglas GmbH and Polytech GmbH
- Assisting Colliers International Germany GmbH in its acquisition of Engels & Völkers Residential Rhein-Main GmbH.
- Assisting Saviola srl. in acquiring a majority share in Rheinspan GmbH & Co KG.
- Assisting several German asset managers and insurance companies regarding CSRD reporting and cash pool issues.
- Representing VR-Bank Westmünsterland eG in its acquisition of Bank Thie & Co.
Education
- Law studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich and the European University Institute, Fiesole, J.D. 1990
- Postgraduate law studies at the National Law Center – the George Washington University, D.C., LL.M. in International Law (with highest honors), 1991
- Doctorate in Law, Munich Law School (LMU), SJD (Dr. jur, summa cum laude), 1996
- Certified Turnaround and Restructuring Advisor (BRSI e.V.), 2012
- CPEA Certified Private Equity Analyst, TUM Munich, 2017
- Certified ESG Officer, Hamburg School of Business Administration (HSBA), 2022.
Awards & associations
- Recommended lawyer for M&A and Private & Venture Capital, in JUVE Handbook from 2002 to 2022.
- Germany’s Best Lawyers, recommended in the areas restructuring, M&A, Private Equity & Venture Capital from 2020 to 2022.
- Andreas is a member of the following professional associations:
- International Bar Association (IBA)
- American Bar Association (ABA)
- TMA Turnaround Management Associates e.V.
- VGR-Vereinigung für Gesellschaftsrecht e.V.
- German-American Lawyers Association e.V.
- German-Italian Lawyers Association
- German-Spanish Lawyers Association
- Andreas is a member of TLE Tax and Legal Excellence network.
Languages
Andreas is fluent in German, English, Italian, French and Spanish.
Klaus F. Bauer
Senior Advisor for Investors and Board Members
After his law studies in Erlangen, Berlin and Paris, Klaus joined the Bavarian Ministry of Economics and Traffic (BayStMWV). He spent two years on a Volkswagen-scholarship at Harvard University at what is now the John F. Kennedy School of Government. After his return to Germany, he was responsible for foreign investment at the BayStMWV as well as its representative for federal and EU affairs.
In 1990, he became the CEO of BayBG AG (later: BayBG GmbH), the largest Bavarian Private Equity Fund. During his term at the head of BayBG as well as after his retirement in 2001 he was a supervisory board member of several BayBG portfolio companies, among others listed cancom AG.
Representative Experience
- Acting as Bavarian government representative in the restructuring committee of Maxhütte AG;
- Member of the Supervisory Board Member of cancom AG
- Member of the Advisory Board of König Ludwig Brauerei GmbH & Co KG.
- Trustee (Treuhänder) at Südboden Kreditbank AG.
- Member of the Examination Board for the 2nd StateExam, appointed by the Bavarian Ministry of Justice.
Education
- Law studies at Friedrich-Albrecht-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Freie Universität Berlin and Sorbonne Unversity, Paris, J.D. 1959
- Doctorate in Law, Friedrich-Albrecht-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, SJD (Dr. jur, summa cum laude), 1963
- Foreign Graduate Student at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Boston, MA. 1965-1967.
- Executive Management Course, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, 1990.
Awards & associations
- Tönissteiner Kreis e.V.
- Havard University Alumni Club Germany e.V.
Languages
Klaus is fluent in German, English, and French.