Overview
Hanno M. Witt advises German and international Private Equity sponsors and other financial investors as well as corporations on M&A transactions, including cross-border transactions, joint ventures, carve-outs, and management participation programs. He regularly assists clients on both the sell side as well as buy side and helps clients prepare for and navigate through auction processes. His broad sector expertise includes Healthcare, Industrials, Infrastructure, Consumer Products and Technology.
Prior to joining McDermott Hanno worked at the corporate department of other international law firms in Munich.
Results
Hanno advised:
- Verdane on the acquisition of a majority stake in Cropster
- NORD Holding on the Sale of Födisch Group to ABB
- Main Capital Partners on the Acquisition of SoftProject
- Main Capital Partners on the Acquisition of Isograph LTD
- Main Capital on the Acquisition of a Majority Stake in Buchner & Camp Partner
- Main Capital Partners and the further shareholders on the sale of their respective stakes in the GBTEC group including GBTEC Software AG (“GBTEC”) to global investment firm Carlyle
- NORD Holding on acquisition of Suter Group by Heizkurier Group
- NORD Holding on acquisition of Suter Group by Heizkurier Group
- DBAG on successful closing of the sale of BTV Multimedia
- Rantum Capital on acquiring majority stake in DPG
- Patient Square Capital and EBD Investments on an investment in a biotechnological company*
- Astorg on the acquisition of the Corden Pharma group*
- Partners Group on several transactions, including a series of acquisitions as part of a buy-and-build strategy in the healthcare sector*
- Equistone several transactions, including
- the carve-out and sale of the Chinese business activities of a company in the manufacturing industry*
- the sale of the Oikos Group to Goldman Sachs*
- Waterland Private Equity on several transactions including the acquisition of the Leupold group from its shareholders*
- CDH Investments on
- the acquisition of the WowTech Group*, and
- the business combination of the Lovehoney group and the WowTech group*
- NORD Holding on several transactions, including
- the carve-out and partial sale of the Uhlig group*
- the sale of the automotive supplier Rhodius group to Equistone*
- Triton on several transactions, including
- acquisition of the fertilizer company COMPO from K+S AG, including add-on acquisition of the fertilizer company Terrasan*
- the acquisition of the Alpine-Energie group from Spanish group Formento de Construcciones y Contratas*
- EQT and OMERS regarding consortium formation and joint acquisition of Deutsche Glasfaser group from its shareholders*
- IK Investment Partners on the sale of the Minimax Viking group to Kirkbi A/S and Intermediate Capital Group*
* Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.
Recognitions
- The Legal 500 EMEA, Recommended, Germany: Private Equity Transactions and Corporate M&A, 2024
Credentials
Education
New York University School of Law, LL.M., 2010
Higher Regional Court of Hamburg, Second State Exam, 2008
University of Hamburg, First State Exam, 2006
Admissions
Germany
Languages
German
English
French
Portuguese