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Esther
Jansen
Partner
Education
University of Heidelberg, Dr. jur., 1999
University of Leuven, Belgium, 1989/90
Practice
Esther Jansen specializes in the areas of bank finance (including acquisition and real estate financings), restructuring and insolvency. She represents German and foreign clients in domestic and cross-border finance and M&A transactions. Ms. Jansen joined the firm’s Frankfurt office in 2001 (after having worked as an attorney in another major law firm) and became a partner in 2005.
Recent Experience
- Oxea on the issuance of a EUR 500 million HY bond and an up to 120 million revolving credit facility
- Glatfelter in connection with the financing of the acquisition of German-Canadian Concert group and refinancing of its credit facilities
- Barclays Bank (and others) on the issuance by InterXion of a EUR 200 million HY bond and EUR 60 million revolving credit facility
- Warburg Pincus on the sale of easycash Group to Ingenico S.A. and related financing issues
- Qatar Investment Authority and Qatar Holding LLC on its investment in Volkswagen AG and Porsche Automobil Holding SE including its participation in a syndicated loan in the amount of up to EUR 265 million and a subsequent restructuring of the syndicated loan
- Cognis GmbH in a factoring transaction with GE Capital Bank
- Avenue Capital and DDJ Capital Management on the European M&A and finance issues in a pre arranged Chapter 11 for Milacron Inc.
- Real Estate Investor in connection with restructuring of facilities agreement and debt-buyback
- Various creditors in insolvency procedures of Lehman Bankhaus AG
- Various private equity sponsors in the restructuring of liabilities of portfolio companies
- Deutsche Postbank, Dresdner Bank, WestLB AG and IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG in a EUR 320 million financing of the acquisition of a cavern portfolio by IVG Institutional Funds GmbH
- Royal Bank of Scotland on a real estate financing for Bouwfonds
- RAG-Stiftung in connection with its sale of a stake in Evonik Industries AG
- HVB in connection with the ongoing advise on various LBO-portfolio financings
- Bank of America in its refinancing of Colfax Group
- Oerlikon Group in the sale of its Blu-ray business
- International Chemical Investors in various divestitures and acquisitions (e.g. CarboTech Engineering GmbH, AstraZeneca plant in Plankstadt)
- Lazard Frères in connection with the Techem take-over
- CVC Capital Partners in its acquisition of DYWIDAG – Systems International
- Hoist Group in its acquisition of Union Inkasso GmbH and a non-performing loan portfolio
- Société Générale in the acquisition of the Master KAG and middle/back-office business of Pioneer Investments
- Siemens AG in its sale of the VA Tech Hydro business
- Investcorp in its sale of Minimax
- Dresdner Bank AG in the sale of a portfolio of German commercial loans and real estate assets to Merrill Lynch&Co., Inc. and Lone Star Management Co. V, Ltd.
- Unaxis Group (Switzerland) in its divestiture program (Leybold Optics, Unaxis Materials, etc.)
Selected Publications
- Impact of financing requirements on M&A agreements, GWR 2009, 361 et. seq.
- The development of pseudo-foreign companies in Germany
in: Jahrbuch Unternehmensfinanzierung 2006
Bar Admissions/Qualifications
Germany
Languages
German
English
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