Aliresa Fatemi is a counsel in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Intellectual Property Transactions practices.

He has extensive experience in cross-border and national mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and international intellectual property transactions, and regularly advises private and public companies in corporate law matters and corporate and post-M&A disputes.

Clients tell The Legal 500 Germany that Aliresa "has distinguished himself by his very strong expertise and technical knowledge, extensive experience in M&A transactions, his achievements, his commitment and his positive and proactive approach" (The Legal 500 Germany 2020).

• A German real estate fund and asset manager on the restructuring of its U.S. real estate investments
• Price f(x) AG on its EUR 58m Series C funding at a pre-money valuation of EUR 200m
• A sovereign wealth fund as co-investor on the joint bid for thyssenkrupp's elevator business
• Ardagh Group on various transactions including on its acquisition of Impress Group, its US$3.42 billion acquisition of parts of Ball Corporation's and Rexam’s metal beverage can business, and most recently on the spin-off and De-SPAC transaction with Gores Holdings V of its beverage can business, valuing the new company at US$8.5 billion
• The management of a mid-cap investment firm on the MBO from a German private bank
• TELUS International on its acquisition of Competence Call Center Group
• American Axle & Manufacturing on various transactions, including the acquisition of the German business of MITEC Automotive AG
• Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG) on a regular basis including on the acquisition of Pfaudler Process Solutions, the sale of Spheros Group, the acquisiton of SERO Schröder Elektronik Rohrbach, the acquisition of Cartonplast Group GmbH, and most recently on the sale of a majority stake of the international business of Pfaudler Group
• DBAG-backed Pfaudler GmbH on the acquisition of Julius Montz GmbH, and most recently on the subsequent sale of Julius Montz GmbH to Koch-Glitsch, a subsidiary of Koch Industries
• The supervisory board of Uniper SE on corporate matters
• Continental AG on the dissolution of a joint venture with SK Innovation and the acquisition of the automotive division of Kathrein SE
• Warner Music Group on the acquisition of EMP Merchandising Handelsgesellschaft mbH
• Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation on a regular basis including on the acquisition of a majority shareholding in Wethje Group through its Mitsubishi Rayon division, the acquisition of carbon fiber company CPC S.r.l. in Italy from Innovative Solutions S.r.l., and most recently on the acquisition of all shares in Cleanpart Group GmbH from Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG)
• Andlinger & Company on a regular basis including on the sale of Lapp Insulators Group to Quadriga Capital, the acquisition of SUSPA GmbH from Tyrol Equity et al., the sale of SUSPA GmbH to Mr. Pascal Vanhalst and his family-owned company TVH Group, and most recently on the acquisition of HEW-Kabel group
• Coesia S.p.A on various transactions including on the acquisition of Oystar North America, Inc. from Odewald & Compagnie, and most recently on the acquisition of the digital printing business of Atlantic Zeiser from Orell Füssli Holding AG
• Holtzbrinck Ventures, Vorwerk Direct Selling Ventures, Global Founders Capital and other shareholders on the sale of MeinAuto GmbH to HgCapital 
• Qatar Investment Authority on various transactions including on its investment in and the subsequent IPO of HelloFresh
• CITIC Capital on various matters including its co-investment with 3i Group plc to acquire Formel D from Deutsche Beteiligungs AG
• Allianz on various transactions including most recently the sale of its 90.2% stake in stock-listed Oldenburgische Landesbank to Bremer Kreditbank
• General Electric on multiple transactions including on its $4.3 billion acquisition of the aviation business of Avio S.p.A., on the disposition of its European Wayne direct sales and services business and in the sale of central parts of Alstom’s heavy duty gas turbine business to Ansaldo Energia in connection with its acquisition of Alstom’s power and grid business
• M&A and IP advise to International Chemical Investors (ICIG) on a regular basis including on the acquisition of the international detergents & intermediates business from Clariant the acquisition of Hospira Boulder, Inc. from Pfizer, on the acquisition of Sandoz Industrial Products GmbH from Novartis and on the restructuring of Corden BioChem GmbH
• Various dispute matters including the representation of a OSRAM Opto Seminconductors as defendant in a US patent dispute with Lighting Science Group Corporation, a European life sciences company as respondent in a high-stakes post-M&A arbitration brought by a European chemical company seeking indemnification under a share purchase agreement, Invita AG as a respondent in a three-digit million law suit, and Daimler AG as a respondent in an international arbitration matter

Professional Activities

• German-American Lawyers' Association e.V. (DAJV)
• German-Iranian Lawyers' Association e.V. (DIJV)
• Association for Business and Corporate Law (VGR)

Publications

• Contributor to various international reports on a regular basis, including for the World Bank Doing Business Report 2021 and The Nature Conservancy Global E-Signature Report
• Beteiligungstransparenz und der Verlust von Aktionärsrechten – Überblick über die Mitteilungspflichten nach § 20 AktG (Transparency of Shareholdings in a German Stock Corporation and the Loss of Shareholders' Rights), DB 2013, p. 2195 - 2200
• Von Raub und Missbrauch in der gesellschaftsrechtlichen Beratung (About Robbery and Misuse in Corporate Law), azur 02/12, p. 124 - 125
• Der Begriff der Kenntnis im Bürgerlichen Recht (The Meaning of 'Knowledge' in the German Private Law), NJW 2011, p. 29 - 30 and NJOZ 2010, p. 2637 - 2642
• Die Obliegenheit zur Due Diligence beim Unternehmenskauf – Eine Rekapitulation der Fahrlässigkeit (The Incidental Obligation for Due Diligences in Business Transactions – Recapitulating Negligence), Dissertation 2009
• Arbeitspapier zum Workshop Patentbewertung – Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2006, Industrieclub Düsseldorf (Working Paper to the Workshop Patent Valuation), Wednesday, January 25, 2006, Industrieclub Düsseldorf – working group patent law, University of Düsseldorf (publisher), Editor 2006
• Verhandlungsführung in China – Erfolg durch interkulturelle Kompetenz (Conduct of Negotiations in China – Success by Intercultural Competence), together with Dr. Winfried F. Schmitz, M.C. J., Kanzleien in Deutschland 2007, 8th Ed. 2006, p. 910-914
• Der Individualsoftware-Vertrag (Custom Software Contracts), Toolbox 6/2005, p. 92-96