Gerrit Henze
Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer), Associated Partner
Mergers & Acquisitions
Corporate
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