Florian J. Späth

Since 2015, Dr. Späth has advised on numerous high-profile M&A and corporate transactions, including:

• Alibaba Group Holding Limited in its multi-billion acquisition of Lazada Group S.A. in a two-step process
• Apax Partners on the pending $660 million take-private of Norva24 Group AB
• Axioma in its acquisition by Deutsche Börse for $850 million
• Bank of America and Goldman Sachs as financial advisers to METRO AG on its rejection of EPGC’s €5.8 billion public takeover offer

• Cevian in connection with the €17.2 billion sale of ThyssenKrupp’s elevator business
• Covivio in its €1.2 billion voluntary public takeover offer for all shares in Godewind Immobilien
• Decarbonization Partners, a joint venture between BlackRock and Temasek, in connection with its investment in osapiens as the lead investor in a $100 million Series C fundraising round, making osapiens Germany’s first start-up to reach unicorn status in 2026
• Delivery Hero on the €930 million sale of its German food delivery businesses to Takeaway.com
• Delivery Hero on its public takeover by, and business combination with, Uber Technologies for an equity value of €13 billion, as well as on the separate €1.4 billion acquisition of Delivery Hero’s operations in 14 markets by SSW Partners
• Deutsche Börse in connection with the strategic partnership with General Atlantic, the announced €3.9 billion all-cash takeover offer for SimCorp (pending), the intended combination of Qontigo and ISS, and the creation of a new investment management solutions segment
• Diebold on its $1.9 billion business combination agreement with, and tender offer for, Wincor Nixdorf
• Drillisch (now: 1&1 AG) on its €8 billion business combination with United Internet
• Flix in EQT Future’s and Kühne Holding’s acquisition of a 35% minority stake in Flix
• Incyte’s acquisition of MorphoSys’ tafasitamab, a humanized Fc-modified CD19-targeting immunotherapy marketed in the U.S. as Monjuvi® and outside of the U.S. as Minjuvi®
• Innovation initiatives such as the setting up of 360X, a secondary marketplace for digital stakes of alternative asset classes and Forge Europe, a provider of liquidity solutions for private growth companies*
• Acquisition of a controlling stake in ISS for a consideration valuing the company at $2.3 billion and related governance arrangements*
• K+S on the (subsequently withdrawn) unsolicited proposed $8.8 billion takeover by Potash
• Merck KGaA in its $11.3 billion acquisition of Bio-Techne
• Merck on its $3.9 billion acquisition of Springworks Therapeutics
• Various mid-market M&A transactions, including the acquisitions of Crypto Finance AG (Switzerland) and Kneip Communication S.A. (Luxembourg) as well as the sale of its 50% stake in the European trade repository, REGIS-TR to SIX*
• Morgan Stanley as financial adviser to ADNOC in connection with ADNOC’s public takeover offer to acquire all shares in Covestro, valuing Covestro at approx. €11.7 billion
• Oaktree on the exchange of its 61% in Deutsche Office into alstria shares for a value of app. $1 billion
• OHB and the Fuchs family in connection with OHB’s investment agreement with, and takeover offer by, KKR, including with respect to Rocket Factory Augsburg
• Pelion Green Future Alpha in its sale and purchase agreement with EQT Active Core Infrastructure fund, to sell its 71.7% share in Tion Renewables AG, valuing Tion at a base equity value of €150 million, and its re-investment, through an affiliate, in a joint venture company majority-owned by EQT funds
• Rocket Internet on its public self-tender delisting offer for all of its outstanding shares, valuing the company at some €2.5 billion
• Softbank Vision Fund in relation to multiple investments in the German market
• Strategic partnerships such as Deutsche Boerse Group’s cloud service arrangement with Google and Clearstream’s global investment fund partnership with HSBC*
• TLG IMMOBILIEN on its €1.5 billion acquisition of a 15.0% stake in Aroundtown and the subsequent €25 billion business combination
• Uniper in connection with Fortum’s €8 billion tender offer for all of its shares
• Urban Sports Club and Verdane on its business combination with EQT- and General Atlantic-backed Wellhub
• Multiple VC investments and portfolio management matters, including in relation to Forge Global’s de-SPAC transaction, Clarity AI, HQLAX and ACX*
• VeriFone on the acquisition of InterCard
• Voith in the sale of its stake in KUKA AG to Midea Group in its app. €4 billion all-cash tender offer

*Denotes representations undertaken prior to joining S&C, in each case for Deutsche Boerse.