- Capital markets law
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Corporate Finance
- Focus areas:
- Capital market transactions (IPOs, secondary offerings, bond issues, etc.)
- Corporate investments and divestitures, share and asset purchase agreements, due diligences, etc.
- Real estate transactions
- Ongoing corporate law advice
- Corporate finance transactions and restructuring
Dr. Holger Alfes, LL.M.
Lawyer, attorney and counselor at law (New York)
Partner
Co-Head Capital Markets
Practice Group: Real Estate Investments
Expertise
Career
- Legal studies and doctorate degree at the University of Münster
- Postgraduate Master of Laws (LL.M.) programme at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland (USA)
- Attorney-at-law (New York) at a US law firm in Frankfurt am Main
- At Noerr since 1999
- Admitted to the Frankfurt Chamber of Lawyers
Distinctions
- Frequently recommended for “IPOs and Capital Increases”, “M&A” and “Corporate” in JUVE Handbook (2018/2019)
- Leading expert in capital markets law, Best Lawyers in Germany (2016)
- Ranked by the magazine Wirtschaftswoche (edition 17 July 2010) among the top 25 lawyers for stock corporation law in Germany
Memberships
- New York Bar Association German-American Lawyers Association
Selected Publications
- Letter of Intent and Non-Disclosure Agreement, Beck'sche Online-Formulare, Hans-Frieder Krauß and Stefan Weise (eds), edited quarterly since 2007
- Notes on sections 793 to 808 German Civil Code (with Seraphine Gräfin zu Eulenburg), Herberger/Martinek/Rüßmann et al., jurisPK-BGB, 8th edition 2017
- Hybride Finanzierungen, Rottke/Goepfert/Hamberger, Immobilienwirtschaftslehre – Recht, 1st edition 2016
- Notes on Annex I Commission Regulation (EC) on Prospectuses (with Dr Laurenz Wieneke) and sections 17 and 18 German Securities Prospectus Act (WpPG), Holzborn (ed.), Wertpapierprospektgesetz mit EU Prospektverordnung, 2nd edition 2014
- Haftungsfragen der Debt Relations (with Dr Christian Hartig), Hasler, Launer, Wilhelm (eds), Praxishandbuch Debt Relations, 2013
- Debt-to-Equity Swap as Restructuring Instrument, Unternehmeredition Restrukturierung 2011, 6/2011
- Fairness Opinions, Going Public, 10/2010
- Investitionen in den Fußball – Dabei sein ist alles (with Dr Sebastian Janka), Going Public, 3/2010
- Attorney-Client Privilege of In-house Counsel, Heidelberg 1999