Noerr advises Deutsche Telekom AG in connection with US litigation commenced by minority shareholders of T-Mobile US, Inc.

Noerr is advising Deutsche Telekom AG in connection with a putative class action and derivative litigation related to the merger between its subsidiary T-Mobile US, Inc. and US mobile communications company Sprint in 2020. The legal dispute is pending in the Delaware Court of Chancery. The plaintiffs are shareholders of T-Mobile US. The defendants are Deutsche Telekom AG, SoftBank Group Corp. as Sprint’s majority shareholder at the time and former board members of T-Mobile US. Noerr is advising Deutsche Telekom primarily in relation to the involvement of its D&O insurers.

Noerr is working closely on the case with the legal department at Deutsche Telekom AG, Deutsche Telekom’s in-house broker DeTe Assekuranz GmbH, its US litigation counsel Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and US coverage counsel Covington & Burling LLP.

Noerr team:

Corporate Litigation/Insurance: Oliver Sieg (partner, Dusseldorf, lead), Philipp Koch (associated partner, Dusseldorf), Sarah Götze (associated partner, Hamburg), Marie-Luise Herkenhoff (senior associate, Dusseldorf), Christiana Bradshaw (associate, Dusseldorf), Anna-Catharina Eben (associate, Hamburg)

Stock Corporation and Capital Markets Law: Stephan Schulz (partner), Bastian Stromann (senior associate, both Hamburg)

Deutsche Telekom team:

Anke Engelberg, Glenn Baumgarten, Christoph Appel, Anne Sehrbrock