Stephan Grauke is a Corporate partner who specializes in cross-border M&A, private equity transactions, capital markets and regulatory issues. He has extensive experience in significant international transactions including complex restructurings. He advised inter alia in the following transactions:
- German Media Partners (investment company of Saban Capital Group and its partner private equity investors) on the sale of its shares in ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG to KKR/Permira
- Institutional investors advised by JC Flowers & Co. LLC on the acquisition of a 26.6% share in HSH Nordbank AG, marking the first time that a foreign investor holds a stake in one of Germany's state-owned "Landesbanken"
- Texas Pacific Group and TPG-Axon Capital on the acquisition of a 27.3% share in mobilcom AG from France Télécom and subsequent exit through sale to private investment firm Vatas
- Tenedora Nemak, S.A. de C.V. on the acquisition of the aluminum cylinder head and engine block manufacturing businesses of TK Aluminum Ltd. and the European aluminum castings division of Norwegian oil, energy and aluminum group Norsk Hydro ASA
- Change Capital Partners on the acquisition of a majority stake in listed Jil Sander AG from the Prada Group
- Lion Capital and The Blackstone Group in the buyout of Cadbury-Schweppes' European Beverages Division and subsequent resale of premium mineral water brand Apollinaris to Coca-Cola and sale of licensing rights for Schweppes and distribution rights for Orangina in Germany and Austria to Krombacher
Mr. Grauke attended the Universities of Mainz and Dijon, France (law degree 1987) and was admitted to practice in Germany in 1991. He worked in London from 1997 to 1999.