Dr. Jakub Lorys

Jakub focuses on German and international M&A and Private Equity transactions, advising corporate clients, institutional investors, financial sponsors, family offices and companies backed by institutional investors and financial sponsors. He handles a broad range of transaction types, including national, cross-border and multi-jurisdictional acquisitions and divestments, joint ventures, co-investments as well as related corporate matters.

Since joining the Firm, he:

• Advised AURELIUS on (i) the acquisition of the EMEA Metering Business from Landis+Gyr, (ii) the acquisition of the Automotive Technologies North America Business from Teijin, (iii) the acquisition of the Savoury Business from What’s Cooking, (iv) the acquisition of the Propulsion Solutions Business from Dayco, (v) the acquisition of the LSG Sky Chefs Group from Deutsche Lufthansa, and (vi) the acquisition of the Offset Solutions Business from Agfa-Gevaert.
• Advised Coats on the acquisition of Rhenoflex from Findos.
• Advised Georg Fischer on the acquisition of the VAG Group from Aurelius.
• Advised Knorr-Bremse on (i) the acquisition of duagon from DBAG, (ii) the acquisition of Travis from its founders and certain investors and (iii) the sale of Kiepe Electric to Heramba.
• Advised Puig on the acquisition of a majority stake in Dr. Barbara Sturm from its founder and certain minority investors.
• Advised Siemens AG on (i) the sale of its UK Meter Operator, Data Collector and Aggregator Business to Stark, (ii) the sale of its Automotive Embedded Software Business to Tata Consultancy Services, (iii) the sale of its Process Gas Chromatography Business to Valmet, (iv) the sale of its Commercial Vehicles Business to Meritor and (v) the acquisition of Optrail from its founders.
• Advised Siemens Energy on the acquisition of the Camlin Group.
• Advised Siemens Healthineers on (i) the acquisition of the IEC Medical Business from IEC Medical Systems and (ii) the acquisition of the Varian Linear Accelerators Equipment Business from Techniques Sciences Sante.

Before joining the Firm, he:

• Advised Siemens on the sale of Flender to Carlyle, the sale of Huba Control to Wise Road and the sale of the audiology business to a consortium consisting of EQT and the Strüngmann family.
• Advised BASF on the sale of the pigment business to DIC / Sun Chemical.
• Advised Otto on the sale of SportScheck to Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof.
• Advised ESG, a portfolio company of Armira, on the sale of the mobility business to Cognizant.
• Advised TA Associates on the sale of thinkproject to EQT.
• Advised Advent International on the sale of Thalia to a consortium led by Herder Verlag and the sale of Douglas to CVC Capital Partners.
• Advised Bain Capital on the sale of a minority stake in Wittur to PSP Investments.
• Advised Hapag-Lloyd on the acquisition of NileDutch from its founders and NPM Capital.
• Advised the Hymer family on the sale of the Erwin Hymer group to Thor Industries.

• International Bar Association - Member
• Munich Bar Association - Member