Heiner Drüke is a Corporate partner in our Frankfurt office who specializes in M&A, restructuring and capital markets. He has extensive experience in public takeovers, private equity, corporate and debt restructuring, having advised clients such as Villeroy & Boch AG (sale of a majority stake of 51% in V&B Fliesen GmbH to the Turkish Eczacibasi Group), Cerberus (acquisition of Peguform, financing of acquisition of Deutsche Städte Medien by Ströer AG), Texas Pacific Group/DLJ Merchant Banking Partners (acquisition of Grohe AG), General Electric (acquisition of Comdisco’s leasing business, acquisition of Allbank AG / squeeze-out at Allbank AG), Vodafone (bid for Mannesmann), Texas Instruments (bid for Condat AG), Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (acquisition, taking private, sale of GAH Anlagentechnik AG), IFCO Systems N.V. (debt-for-equity swap), Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG (dual listings on Frankfurt and Zurich stock exchanges, acquisition of "Video & Image" chip division of Infineon), HM Capital Partners (formerly Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst) (bid for broadband cable business of Deutsche Telekom), US-conglomerate on acquisition of NPL portfolios.
Education - Universities of Bonn and Berkeley, California (law degree 1984; Dr. jur. 1989). Legislative aide to member of the German Parliament 1986-1988.