Uwe Hartmann is a corporate partner in the Frankfurt office and heads the firm's German restructuring activities. Educated as a banker, he has extensive experience in cross-border and domestic corporate and financial restructurings, private equity investments in distressed assets (including portfolios of non- or sub-performing loans), and real estate transactions. He advised inter alia in the following landmark transactions:
- First debt-for-equity swap of a German publicly listed company (Augusta Technologie AG) in connection with a restructuring of public bonds according to the German Debt Securities Act of 1899
- First insolvency remote asset-based debt refinancing of a German bank by using the new German Refinancing Register
- First acquisition of a distressed German bank (Allgemeine HypothekenBank Rheinboden AG - AHBR) by a private equity investor (Lone Star) aiming at restructuring of the bank by the new owner (rather than the German bank industry itself)
- First acquisition of a portfolio of non-performing and sub-performing loans by means of a split-off (Abspaltung) and subsequent share deal
Mr. Hartmann was admitted to practice in Germany in 1995 and holds a law degree as well as a doctorate in law from the University of Würzburg.