Susanne Decker

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Susanne Decker
Susanne Decker is a partner in Weil's Private Equity practice and is based in Frankfurt, Germany. She advises primarily private equity sponsors on a wide range of national as well as international cross-border transactions.

With over two decades of experience in high-profile mergers and acquisitions, she guides clients through the whole life cycle of their investments. Susanne frequently handles sophisticated deal structures with optimized tax components and has particular expertise in designing and negotiating complex co- and reinvestment structures as well as management incentive programs for private equity transactions. In addition, she provides ongoing corporate law advice to companies and portfolio businesses and counsels on complex group restructurings.

Susanne has worked on numerous landmark cross-border transactions, including advising:

  • Antin Infrastructure Partners on its strategic partnership with Blue Elephant Energy*
  • Ara Partners on its acquisition of Vacuumschmelze*
  • Ardian on the acquisition of a majority stake in LIFTKET*
  • Bregal on various transactions, including:
    • The sale of a majority stake in ACTICO Group*
    • Its majority investment in BSI Software*
    • Its strategic partnership with Billbee*
    • The sale of EA Elektro-Automatik*
    • The acquisition of a majority stake in medavis*
    • The acquisition of a majority stake in SEMA*
  • Capvis on the setting up of a management participation scheme for the Amann Girrbach Group*
  • Carlyle on its majority investment in GBTEC Software AG*
  • Chequers Capital on:
    • The acquisition of the Spandex Group*
    • The setting up of a management participation programme for Spandex and Emvia*
    • An add-on acquisition for Spandex*
  • Clayton Dubilier & Rice on the sale of Mauser Group to Stone Canyon*
  • CVC Capital on its investment in Tipico Group and setting up of a management participation programme, as well as ongoing advice on the equity structure*
  • Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP) on the acquisition of a majority shareholding in maincubes*
  • EMZ Partners on the acquisition of a minority stake in Wishcard*
  • EQT and OMERS on the structuring of the management incentive scheme in connection with their acquisition of Deutsche Glasfaser from KKR*
  • Equistone on the acquisition of a major stake in RENA Group*
  • Ergon Capital Partners on the acquisition of svt Holding GmbH*
  • Hellman & Friedman and Blackstone Group on the public tender offer for Scout24*
  • GIP and KKR (consortium) on their investment in Vantage Tower
  • Hg on:
    • The acquisition of the Transporeon Group*
    • The acquisition of the MediFox Group*
    • The formation of the Mobility Group and related acquisitions of Mein Auto Group and Mobility Concept*
    • The setting up of a holding platform for insurance brokers and related acquisitions*
    • The acquisition of P&I, one of the leading European providers of cloud-based HR software from Permira*
    • Its investment in STP Informationstechnologie as a joint venture with one of the founders*
    • Its investment in Eucon, a leading provider of automotive data and insurance claims management services*
  • IK Partners on its investment in Cinerius Financial Partners*
  • KKR on the successful implementation of a squeeze-out at MDAX-listed Encavis*
  • InfraRed on the development of datacenter platform NexSpace*
  • Lenders on comprehensive recapitalization of Flint Group*
  • Mainova on the sale of a majority stake in its data center business to Blackrock*
  • NPM Capital on the acquisition of its majority stake in Elbfrost*
  • One Rock on the acquisition of Constantia Flexibles*
  • Partners Group on:
    • The acquisition of a majority stake in Cloudflight*
    • The acquisition of a majority stake in the Rosen Group*
    • The setting-up of Afileon, a network of tax consultancy, auditing and legal consulting firms*
  • Perusa on the sale of SCHROTH Safety Products*
  • SPIE on the acquisition of ROBUR Industry Service Group*
  • Triton on:
    • The sale together with ADIA and the reinvestment (together with Stonepeak) in IFCO*
    • The acquisition of All4Labels*
    • The acquisition of Dutch Royal Reesink*
    • The setting up of a management participation scheme and advice on further employee incentives for the IFCO Group*
    • Stonepeak's acquisition of a co-controlling stake in IFCO*

*Matters handled prior to joining Weil

Susanne studied law at the universities of Bonn and Fribourg (law degree 1993 and earned an LL.M. degree in European Community Law from the College of Europe in Bruges (1994). She completed her legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court in Düsseldorf. Susanne was admitted to practice in Germany in 1997.

Susanne is fluent in German and English and has an intermediate level of proficiency in French.