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Kieran Verdano

Associate
Baker McKenzie Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH von Rechtsanwälten und Steuerberatern

Biography

Kieran Verdano is an associate in the Firm’s Frankfurt/Main based Banking & Finance team specializing on leveraged finance and financial restructuring. Prior to joining the Firm, Kieran gained broad commercial experience in the financial industry during his time as a financial advisor at a large German banking group.

Having studied law at the universities of Freiburg and Tuebingen, Kieran went on to spend his legal traineeship in the jurisdiction of the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart and, among other stages, staged in the Firm’s Frankfurt/Main Banking & Finance team.

Kieran held leading positions in Law Clinics and trained students legally and in building their advisory skills during his studies and legal traineeship. Giving clients of all social backgrounds advice when in need has been a passion to the day.

Practice Focus

Kieran’s practice focusses on advising banks, debt funds, investors and borrowers on all aspects of banking and finance law, especially in relation to national and international financing transactions in the areas of acquisition finance, corporate finance, financial restructuring and leveraged buy-out financing, integrating his six years of experience as a banker.

Representative Legal Matters

  • Advised Senior Lenders on the financial restructuring of Woco Group.
  • Advised Coats Group in connection with the financing of Rhenoflex Group from Findos.
  • Advised Aurelius in connection with the financing of its acquisition of the LSG Group from Deutsche Lufthansa AG.
  • Advised a syndicate of lenders led by Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft on the financial restructuring of PIA Automation Group.
  • Advised Sanecum Gruppe, a leading operator of multidisciplinary medical care centers in Germany, on the financing of its further expansion.
  • Advise Sanecum Gruppe, supported by Adiuva Capital, on the implementation of additional acquisition debt facilities to its existing debt financing structure.
  • Advised the (insolvent) Gienanth Group on the financial aspects of the sale of its subsidiaries in Steyer (Austria), Eisenberg (Palatinate), Kulmbach and Fronberg.
  • Advised VINCI Energies on the financial aspects of its acquisition of Fernao Group, one of the leading cybersecurity services providers in Germany and Switzerland.
  • Advised SIG-i Capital in its capacity as lender on the financing of FLABEG Group.
  • Advised Oldenburgische Landesbank Aktiengesellschaft (OLB) in its capacity as sole mandated lead arranger and lender on the financing of the acquisition of adlicious Group by the Dutch investor FIELDS Group.
  • Advised the Commerzbank led lenders on the successful refinancing of the LINDAL Group.

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • Bar Association Frankfurt am Main
  • German Lawyers Association
  • German-Irish Lawyers and Business Association

Admissions

  • Germany (2022)

Education

  • Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart (Assessor Exam) (2022)
  • Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg / Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen (Referendar Exam) (2019)
  • Savings Banks Academy of Baden-Wuerttemberg (Banking Specialist (SBW)) (2011)
  • Chamber of Commerce Bodensee-Oberschwaben (Banking Professional) (2009)

Languages

  • English
  • German

Geschäftsführer: Dr. Alexander Wolff, Dr. Oliver Socher, Dr. Christian Vocke
Baker McKenzie Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH von Rechtsanwälten und Steuerberatern is registered with the Local Court of Frankfurt/Main (registered seat) HRB 123975. It is associated with Baker & McKenzie International, a Verein organized under the laws of Switzerland.