Financing expert Tom Beckerhoff moves to Noerr

Noerr LLP is reinforcing the Banking & Finance practice group at its Frankfurt office with a distinguished new joiner. As of 1 July, the firm will be admitting Dr Tom Beckerhoff as a new partner. Beckerhoff is currently a partner at ashurst LLP where he heads the German banking team.

“We will be able to considerably increase our clout when advising on leveraged buyouts, syndicated loans and project financing with Tom Beckerhoff at our side,” stresses Noerr’s practice group head Andreas Naujoks. “At the same time, his expertise will strengthen the practice group’s strategic orientation in relation to our advice to banks, financial service providers and debt funds.”

The firm points out that Beckerhoff’s move to Noerr will also have an effect on the strongly growing demand for cross-border financing and advice on leveraged buyouts, as well as project and real estate financing. Tom Beckerhoff recently advised a banking syndicate on the financing of the takeover of the IN tIME Express Logistik Group by the South African Super Group, the European Investment Bank on the financing of Nordex SE, and  DZ Bank and Santander on the financing of Deutsche Beteiligungs AG, for example. Apart from this, Beckerhoff often advises on leveraged buyouts funded by a combination of debt funds and banks.

In the project financing field, Beckerhoff regularly supports large energy and energy infrastructure projects such as the funding of offshore wind farms and grids, a key area of Noerr’s Energy Group with whose experts the new partner will also cooperate closely in the future. “Together with Tom Beckerhoff, we will continue to expand and deepen our advice to energy companies, banks and investors when realising their projects,” says Dr Alexander Ritvay, one of the firm’s co-speakers.

“Noerr’s financing practice group has made an ever-stronger name for itself on the market over the past few years, and I look forward to working with the well-established team led by Andreas Naujoks,” comments Beckerhoff in connection with his move. “The advice offered by the team in innovative and complex financing transactions – such as its assistance in mixed financing syndicates – and its integrated approach to advice when working together with other practice groups in the firm are especially convincing.”