Winfried M. Carli is a partner in the Finance practice.  

He has extensive experience in domestic and cross‐border bank finance and restructuring matters, with a particular focus on acquisition financings.

Winfried represents national and international financial institutions, private equity firms, debt funds and companies on all types of debt transactions.

Winfried regularly publishes and lectures on financing and restructuring issues. He is cited as one of the leading banking and finance lawyers in Germany in the most recent editions of Chambers Europe, Chambers Global and IFLR1000, listed as recommended lawyer in the most recent editions of JUVE and The Legal 500 and ranked among “Germany's Best Lawyers 2019” by Handelsblatt.

• CAPZA on the unitranche financing for the acquisition of MDT technologies by IK
• Equistone on the financing of the acquisition of, inter alia, Amadys, Heras, Omnicare, RENA Group, BOAL Group, DefShop, GALA Kerzen, Ramesh Flowers, Korona, JewelCandle, TriStyle, Long Tall Sally, SportGroup, Astroturf and ProGrass
• HCOB and OLB on the financing of Ondal by IK
• Commerzbank and others on the financing of the acquisition of EA Elektro-Automatik by Bregal
• Permira Debt Managers (PDM) on the financing of the acquisition of ]init[ by EMERAM Banks on the refinancing of Allgeier SE
• Armira on the financing of the acquisition of a majority stake in Scheu-Dental Group
• EQT Credit, SEB and Hamburg Commercial Bank on a €331 million unitranche financing for IK-backed Alanta Health Group
• UniCredit and DZ Bank on the financing of the acquisition of a majority share in AVANTGARDE
• Berenberg on the financing of the acquisition of Novopress
• Silverfleet, inter alia, on the financing of the acquisition of INEOS’ melamines & paraform business, Prefere Resins, 7days, Pumpenfabrik Wangen, Praxis Herning and CCC as well as on the refinancing of Kalle
• VIA Equity on the financing of the acquisition of SEMA
• Ares on the refinancing of Intelligent Repair Solutions Group
• IK Investment Partners on the financing of the acquisition of SCHEMA Group and the add-on acquisition of Docware
• Ardian Private Debt on the financing of the acquisition of SER Group by Carlyle
• EMERAM Capital Partners, inter alia, on the financing of the acquisition of frostkrone, Rite Stuff Foods, Piz'wich and Drahtzug Stein as well as on the refinancing of Boards & More; frostkrone on the financing of the add-on acquisition of Innovate Foods
• Muzinich on the financing of the acquisition of SLF by Avedon
• LBBW, SEB and Siemens Bank on the financing of the acquisition of KLINGEL by IK Investment Partners
• PINOVA on the financing of the acquisition of WMD Group, Deurowood, WEETECH and Utimaco
• capiton on the financing of the acquisition of a majority stake in Magix Software
• Cathay Capital on the financing of the acquisition of E. WINKEMANN and WST Präzisionstechnik
• EQT Credit on the financing of the acquisition of Studienkreis by IK Investment Partners
• ABN AMRO on the financing of the acquisition of HALEX by Bencis
• Allgaier Group on a fundamental reorganization of the group’s financing
• Lenders on the financing of the acquisition of UDG United Digital Group by Equistone backed PIA Group
• LBBW and BayernLB on a €400 million financing for Hirschvogel Automotive
• Crescent Capital on the refinancing of 3B Scientific Group
• LBBW on the financing of the acquisition of Erdo by DPE and the add-on acquisitions Oranjedak and Patina
• ING and other banks on a €180 million financing for Allgeier
• VTC on the financing of the acquisition of JK-Holding
• Commerzbank, inter alia, on the refinancing of WITTE Automotive
• SEB on the financing of the acquisition of exocad by Carlyle
• Avenue Capital, BlueBay and others on the financing of the acquisition of Wheaton Industries and Kimble Chase by Duran/One Equity Partners
• Südwestbank on the financing of the acquisition of Reutter/ITIB by Steadfast
• Luxempart and BIP on the financing of the acquisition of arwe by Alcentra
• ING, LBBW, BNP and Deutsche Bank on the financing of the acquisition of Affinia by MANN+HUMMEL
• L-GAM on the financing of the acquisition of FAIST
• Lenders on PrimaCom's €365 Million senior and second lien refinancing

Awards & Accolades

• Winfried M. Carli is cited as one of the leading banking and finance lawyers in Germany in the most recent editions of IFLR 1000, Chambers Global and Chambers Europe, listed as recommended lawyer in the most recent editions of JUVE and The Legal 500 and ranked among “Germany's Best Lawyers 2019” by Handelsblatt.
• In the Chambers Global edition of 2019, he is respected by clients for his “excellent combination of commercial thinking and technical knowledge”.
• According to the 2018 edition of Chambers Global “Winfried Carli is held in high esteem by clients, who praise his commercial understanding and consideration of economic factors.”