Julian Lemor joins Noerr’s private equity practice in Frankfurt

Leading European law firm Noerr is shoring up the private equity practice at its Frankfurt office. On 1 May 2023, Julian Lemor will be joining Noerr as an equity partner. Lemor is from Mayer Brown and is a leading specialist in private equity transactions and cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

“We’re delighted that Julian Lemor has decided to join our Frankfurt transactions practice,” commented Christian Pleister, co-head of Noerr’s Private Equity practice group. “With our our Finance & Capital Markets practice, he will form a strong team that is able to advise our private equity clients at the highest level and in the most complex situations.” Private Equity co-head Georg Christoph Schneider added: “With Julian on board our team, we will continue the growth of our activities advising on top-quality transactions in the private equity field.”

Noerr’s 50-member Private Equity practice group represents the interests of foreign and domestic financial investors, companies and management teams in cross-border large- and mid-cap transactions and on structuring their investments. Clients include private equity firms such as J.C. Flowers, KPS Capital, KKR, Apollo, EMERAM, Bregal Unternehmerkapital, Deutsche Beteiligungs AG, DPE Deutsche Private Equity and Brookfields.

Recent instructions include advising financial investor Foresight on a major project worth billions concerning the production of green hydrogen, AUCTUS on the sale of PharmaLex to US pharmaceutical wholesaler AmerisourceBergen, KKR’s portfolio company Exact Group on the acquisition of weclapp SE, AEQUITA on the carve-out and acquisition of the electronic interfaces business of ZF Friedrichshafen AG, heycar on the investment of Renault Group, KPS Capital Partners on setting up Speira and its acquisitions of Real Alloy Group’s European business and Norsk Hydro’s rolling business.