Gerrit Henze

Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer), Associated Partner


Gerrit Henze

Gerrit Henze is Associated Partner in the Dusseldorf office of Noerr. He advises companies as well as private equity sponsors on M&A transactions both, in the context of private company acquisitions and public takeovers, joint ventures and carve-outs as well as on restructurings and in matters of group and corporate law.

Projects

  • Summit in connection with various market consolidating buy and build transactions
  • Henkel on the acquisition of a 75% stake in Hello Body
  • Ceconomy in connection with the structured sale of its 9% stake in Metro
  • Scout24 on the sale of the AutoScout platform to Hellman & Friedman
  • Cerner on the sale of part of the European IT healthcare business to CompuGroup
  • Hyundai on the acquisition of Sixt SE's shares in Sixt Leasing SE by a joint venture with Santander and on the public bid for the remaining shares in Sixt Leasing SE
  • Hellman & Friedman / Blackstone in connection with the public takeover offer for Scout24
  • Playtika on the acquisition of the Berlin mobile games developer Wooga
  • Henkel in connection with the global carve-out acquisition of the Darex packaging business
  • Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy in connection with the sale of Opel by GM to PSA
  • UniCredit in connection with the sale of its stake in SwanCap to Ardian
  • Omnicom on the sale of the Sellbytel group

Career

  • Legal studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster
  • Associate in a global US law firm in the field of Corporate/M&A
  • At Noerr since 2020
  • Admitted to the Düsseldorf Chamber of Lawyers

Memberships

  • Corporate Association (VGR) German-American Lawyers Association