Christian Tappeiner

In his role as the Head of the Energy & Infrastructure practice in Germany, he is bringing deep sector insight to transactions involving regulated assets, energy transition technologies, and large‑scale infrastructure platforms. This complements his broader M&A/PE practice and enables him to support both financial and strategic investors including major energy corporations on strategically important transactions.

Focus areas

• Renewable energy, grid, hydrogen, and infrastructure transactions
• M&A and private equity transactions across all sectors
• Growth equity investments

Christian combines top‑tier transactional execution with sector‑specific insight, enabling clients to make confident decisions in competitive, regulated, or time‑sensitive environments.

With his comprehensive expertise, Christian has, over the last years, advised, inter alia, in the following transactions:

Energy & Infrastructure

• Alterna Capital Partners on the sale of Graphit Kropfmühl GmbH to AMG
• CEZ Group on its joint ventures with GP Joule and BayWa Green Energy regarding development of on-shore wind farms in Germany
• CEZ Group on the acquisition of Kofler Energies group from Kofler Energies AG and others
• CEZ Group on the acquisition of various wind farms
• CEZ Group on its acquisition of Elevion Group from DPE Deutsche Private Equity
• Culligan Wassertechnik GmbH on the acquisition of Triple A Aqua Service Holding GmbH from Peter Greiner Beteiligungs GmbH and Viva Aqua Service Spain, S.A.
• Elevion Group on the acquisition of Hermos Group from Herrmannsdörfer family
• Elevion Group on the acquisition of SERCOO Group GmbH and its subsidiaries from Deutsche Private Equity
• Elevion Group on the acquisition of Belectric Group from RWE
• GP Joule on the sale of a wind farm to KGAL
• Insolvency receiver on the sale of iconic German race track Nürburgring to an investor
• INVEN Capital on its investments in Zolar, Cloud&Heat, Sonnen, Sunfire, tado and Forto
• INVEN Capital on the divestment of Sonnen Group, one of the leading manufacturers of smart residential energy storage systems, to Shell Overseas Investment B.V.
• Media Broadcast Satellite on the acquisition of TTCom group from Value Quest
• Media Broadcast on the sale of orbital/spectrum usage rights to SES
• MW Storage on a joint venture regarding the development, construction and operation of Germany's largest battery energy storage facility in Arzberg, Germany
• Panasonic Aviation Corporation on the sale of its stake in idair GmbH to Lufthansa Technik AG
• TDF on the acquisition of Media Broadcast from Deutsche Telekom

M&A, Private Equity and Growth Equity

• 3i/Evernex on the acquisition of Technogroup
• APMH on the investment in Forto GmbH
• Bregal Unternehmerkapital on the acquisition of NOVEM Group
• Change Capital Partners on the acquisition of Hallhuber from Stefanel, the sale of Hallhuber to Gerry Weber, the acquisition of Jil Sander from Prada, the sale of Jil Sander to Onward Holdings
• Charterhouse Capital Partners on the acquisition of Armacell Group from Investcorp SA
• DIC on the consortium with KKR to establish GEG Group
• GenStar on the acquisition of Bihr Group
• INVEN Capital on its investments in Zolar, Cloud&Heat, Sonnen, Sunfire, tado and Forto
• INVEN Capital on the divestment of Sonnen Group, one of the leading manufacturers of smart residential energy storage systems, to Shell Overseas Investment B.V.
• Motive Partners on the sale of Avaloq to NEC
• NRDC Equity Partners on the acquisition of Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof, Germany's largest department store chain, out of insolvency
• Summit Partners on the acquisition of 360T
• TCV as anchor investor in the context of the Series B financing round of SuperVista AG, operating under the brand "brillen.de"
• TCV in its investments in Celonis, Spryker, Flix Mobility, Trade Republic and Mambu
• Terreal Group on its acquisition of Creaton