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Dr Thomas Schmuck M.C.L.

Senior Counsel
Frankfurt
About

Thomas Schmuck has more than twenty years of M&A experience, advising domestic and international transactions of whatever scale and complexity.

His recent focus has been on advising on transactions in the communications and media sectors, as well as in the banking and insurance sectors.

Areas of FocusMedia, Sport and EntertainmentFinancial ServicesInsuranceCorporateMergers and Acquisitions
Professional QualificationsRechtsanwalt admitted with Rechtsanwaltskammer Frankfurt am Main

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising ARKANCE, a leading European company specialized in the digital transformation of the construction and industrial sectors, and a subsidiary of B2B services group Monnoyeur, on the acquisition of VinZero.
  • Advising media and advertising holding WPP plc (including Grey, Ogilvy & Mather, Young & Rubicam, J. Walter Thompson) on all German acquisitions during the past twelve years, including the acquisitions of Scholz & Friends and most recently of plista.
  • Advising MetLife on German aspects of taking over Hartfort Financial and Alleghany Corporation on the German issues regarding the acquisition of Transatlantic Reinsurance Company.
  • Advising trade union holding BGAG in its sale of home savings bank BHW to Postbank and of mortgage bank AHBR to Lonestar.
  • Advising ING on various bank sales (including Sal. Oppenheim, Degussa Bank, Deutsche Hypothekenbank).
Languages
  • German
  • English
  • French

Awards

  • JUVE Handbook 2024/2025: Frequently recommended for M&A; "precise and practical", client
  • Handelsblatt in cooperation with Best Lawyers 2024/2025: Recommended for corporate and M&A.
Education
  • University of Hamburg, Dr. jur., 1994
  • Higher Regional Court of Hamburg, Second State Examination, 1992
  • George Washington University, Washington D.C. (Fulbright Scholar), M.C.L., 1989


    Universities of Passau, Göttingen, Geneva and Hamburg, First State Examination, 1988

Publications

Gabler’s Encyclopedia Corporate Finance, chapter "Private M&A," 2nd ed. 2012

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Frankfurt Bar Association
  • Corporate Law Association

My latest insights

News

DLA Piper advises BearingPoint on the sale of its minority stake in the former RegTech...

27 March 2025 .1 minute read

Publication

Webinar: Ripples of activity in stormy seas: six M&A trends in the insurance sector

26 October 2023 .1 minute read

News

DLA Piper advises ARKANCE on the acquisition of VinZero

23 June 2023 .2 minute read

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+49 69 271 33 232
(Work, Frankfurt)
+49 172 38 33 914
(Work)