Düsseldorf
T:
+49 211 17888 818
F:
+49 211 17888 891
Frankfurt
T:
+49 69 9711 1000
F:
+49 69 9711 1100
Add to Outlook
|
Hans
Diekmann
Partner
Education
Bank training, 1982
University of Münster in Westfalen
University of Paris I, Dr. jur., 1990
Practice
Hans Diekmann is a partner in the Corporate group of the Düsseldorf office of Shearman & Sterling. He advises primarily on corporate law issues, as well as on capital market issues. In addition he advises banks, investors and companies in respect of structured finance, i.e. acquisition finance; senior, second lien and mezzanine loans; profit-sharing rights; real estate finance; combined bank/bond (high-yield) finance; and project finance.
He has been a partner at Shearman & Sterling since 1999. Before that, he spent more than seven years of his career with the central legal department of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany.
Experience
- Sale of investment bank activities of Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. KGaA to Macquarie
- Sale of Sal. Oppenheim & Cie. S.C.A. to Deutsche Bank
- Aabar's participation in Daimler
- Alstria Office REIT AG regarding option for dividend in own shares (stock dividend)
- Allianz SE in the sale of Dresdner Bank AG to Commerzbank AG and the outsourcing of Allianz Banking to Oldenburgische Landesbank AG
- Degussa Bank GmbH on its acquisition of the German Commercial Cards Business from Santander Consumer Bank
- IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG Supervisory Board in connection with crisis of IKB
- Exchange of assets by E.ON AG with Statkraft
- RAG Stiftung AG in the sale of 25.01% stake in Evonik AG
- U.S. Bond Private Placement (E.ON 2008)
- Axel Springer AG in its buyback of shares
- Several conversions of German stock corporation into a European Company (Allianz, Fresenius, BASF and other contemplated conversions)
- Allianz buyout of minority shareholder in Assurances Générales de France, S.A.
- DaimlerChrysler AG’s sale of a 7.5% stake in EADS
- Acquisition of majority stake in ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG by Axel Springer AG (due to decision of the antitrust authorities, not finalized)
- IPO of alstria office AG and conversion of this company into a REIT
- Allianz Group in the cross-border merger with Riunione Adriatica di Sicurtà (RAS) and the conversion of Allianz AG into a European company (Societas Europaea)
- E.ON’s sale of shares in Degussa AG
- Viacom’s acquisition of VIVA Media AG
- Allianz AG in the sale of Dresdner Bank Latin America’s private banking business to UBS Wealth Management AG
- Celanese in the acquisition by Blackstone
- E.ON’s acquisition of Ruhrgas from RAG
- Acquisition of FAG Kugelfischer Georg Schäfer AG by INA Holding Schaeffler KG
- Acquisition of Dresdner Bank AG by Allianz AG
- Several squeeze-out procedures under the German Stock Corporation Act (e.g., Dresdner Bank AG, Schmalbach-Lubeca AG, FAG Kugelfischer Georg Schäfer AG, Thüga AG, VIVA Media AG, Allianz Leben)
- Advice on annual shareholders' meetings and on ongoing corporate law matters (e.g. E.ON AG, Axel Springer AG, alstria office REIT AG, GFKL Financial Services AG, Elmos Semiconductor AG, Fresenius SE)
Bar Admissions/Qualifications
1993,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2001,
Düsseldorf, Germany
Languages
German
English
French
|