
Jan Bauer
Jan Bauer heads Skadden’s private equity practice in Germany and leads the firm’s German offices. He advises private equity and corporate clients on their most complex transactions, including private and public deals, as well as joint ventures.
Bio
With more than 20 years in practice, Dr. Bauer’s experience spans over 100 completed transactions valued in excess of €100 billion across a range of industries, including technology, business services, industrials and health care.
For many years, he has been widely recognized as a leading lawyer for his private equity and corporate M&A work, including in WirtschaftsWoche, Handelsblatt Best Lawyers, JUVE, Chambers Global, The Legal 500, Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) and IFLR1000. Clients characterize him in these rankings as a “class act” and recognize him as “one of the heavy hitters in the market.”
His significant transactions include advising:
Financial Sponsors:
- I Squared Capital in its:
- majority investment in SUNfarming, a German photovoltaic developer and independent power producer focused on agricultural solar projects, through its renewable energy platform Cube Green Energy
- €1.4 billion acquisition of Arriva Plc (including all of its operating businesses across 10 European markets) from Deutsche Bahn AG
- €650 million acquisition of PEMA Group from Société Générale through its portfolio company TIP
- Energy Infrastructure Partners in its:
- minority investment of 10% in Eni Plenitude SpA, an Italian diversified energy transition company, at an implied valuation of more than €10 billion, as well as in its partnership with Eni SpA
- acquisition of 20% of Fluxys Group, an operator of gas pipelines and LNG terminals across Europe, from CDPQ at an implied valuation of €8 billion, as well as in its partnership with Publigas SA
- minority investment of 49% in BayWa r.e. AG, a global developer and operator of renewable energy projects at an implied valuation of €1.1 billion, as well as in its partnership with BawaAG
- acquisition of a 49% stake of the Wikinger offshore wind farm from Iberdrola at an implied valuation of €1.425 billion, as well as in its partnership with BaWa AG
- acquisition of a 25% stake of the Arkona offshore wind farm from Equinor at an implied valuation of €2 billion, as well as in its partnership with RWE and Equinor
- TSG Consumer Partners and Backcountry in the sale of Bergfreunde GmbH, a Germany-based online retailer of premium outdoor apparel and equipment, to DECATHLON S.E., the world’s largest sporting goods retailer
- Castik Capital in its:
- acquisition of WATR Group, a water construction company, from private equity fund Borromin Capital Management
- acquisition of Element Logic, a robotic solutions and material handling systems provider for warehouses, from its founders
- acquisition of TB Auctions, an online auction platform and marketplace for used industrial goods, from its founders
- Hg in connection with its significant minority investment, alongside EQT and TA Associates, in IFS and Work-Wave, two cloud-based software services businesses, at a $10 billion valuation
- Silver Lake in its strategic partnership and investment in German publicly listed company Software AG through the purchase of €344 million aggregate principal amount of subordinated unsecured convertible notes. This was the first PIPE by any U.S. technology investment firm in a German public company
- Gulf Energy Development Group in its:
- acquisition of a 24.99% stake of the in Outer Dowsing project, a 1,500 MW offshore wind farm located off the coast of England, from Green Investment Group at an implied valuation of $2.49 billion, as well as in its partnership with Total Energies
- acquisition of a 50% stake in Borkum Riffgrund 2 project, a 450 MW offshore wind farm off the coast of Germany, from Global Infrastructure Partners at an implied valuation of €3 billion, its partnership with Ørsted, and the subsequent sale of half of its stake to a joint venture of Singapore-based Keppel Infrastructure Trust and Keppel Corporation Limited
- acquisition of a 49% stake in Jackson Generation, a 1.2 GW gas power plant in the U.S., from Jackson Power at an implied valuation of $820 million, as well as in its partnership with Jackson Power
- phenox and its shareholders, including health care private equity investor SHS, in the sale of phenox to Wallaby Medical for a total consideration of €500 million, including milestone payments
- Armira and its portfolio company Boxine in Boxine’s €1 billion business combination with 468 SPAC I SE, one of the first de-SPAC transactions involving a German-listed SPAC
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in relation to the €3.8 billion sale of CeramTec to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and BC Partners
- SCP Group in its:
- €1.2 billion acquisition of the Real Group, one of Europe’s largest hypermarket operators, from METRO AG
- sale of the digital business of Real, including the online marketplace operated under real.de, to Schwarz Group
Corporate M&A
- a leading global investment firm as financial advisor to the management board of Siemens AG in connection with its $5.1 billion acquisition of Dotmatics, a leader in life sciences research and design software
- BlackRock as part of a consortium of investors, including Allianz and T&D Holdings, in its acquisition of Viridium Group, a leading European life insurance consolidation platform, from Cinven at an enterprise value of €3.5 billion
- NXP, a global leader in automotive processing and networking, in its $625 million acquisition of TTTech Auto, an Austria-based provider of unique safety-critical systems and middleware for software-defined vehicles
- MorphoSys AG in its €2.7 billion sale to, and public takeover by, Novartis and the simultaneous disposition of the worldwide marketing rights of its antibody drug Monjuvi to Incyte Corporation
- Spirit AeroSystems, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of aerostructures for commercial airplanes and defense platforms, in its $8.3 billion acquisition by The Boeing Company
- Trimble in its €1.9 billion acquisition of Transporeon, a leading cloud-based transportation management software platform, from Hg
- a leading global investment firm as financial advisor to the management board of Klöckner & Co SE in connection with the €973 million voluntary public takeover offer by SWOCTEM GmbH for the entire issued share capital of Klöckner & Co
- A.P. Møller Holding and Færch Group in the acquisition of the $1.1 billion PACCOR Group from U.S. private equity firm Lindsay Goldberg
- HeidelbergMaterials in its partnership with Thoma Bravo and the acquisition of a 45% stake in Command Alkon, a cloud-based supply chain technology solutions provider for heavy building materials, from Thoma Bravo at an implied pre-money valuation of $1.7 billion
- SIGNA Sports United in connection with its $3.3 billion initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange as a result of the de-SPAC merger with Yucaipa Acquisition Corporation. The merger also included the acquisition of WiggleCRC Group
- Hidrovias do Brasil, an integrated logistics solutions provider for water-based transportation companies, in its acquisition of the South American shipping business of Imperial Logistics Limited
- a leading global investment firm as financial advisor to the supervisory board of Deutsche Wohnen, Germany’s second-largest residential real estate company, in connection with its €19 billion takeover by Vonovia
- a leading global investment firm as financial advisor to the management board of Traton, one of the world’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturers, in connection with its $3.7 billion takeover of Navistar
- Coty Inc. in its strategic partnership with KKR & Co. Inc., including the carve-out sale of 60% of its professional beauty and retail hair businesses to KKR for an enterprise value of $4.3 billion
Founders and Family Owners
- the founders of communications specialist and FRITZ!Box manufacturer AVM in the sale of a majority stake in AVM to Imker Capital Partners, as well as in AVM’s partnership with Imker Capital
- the founder of ROSEN Technologies, a global leader in inspection and integrity management services for pipelines, in the carve-out of the company’s New Ventures division and the sub-sequent multibillion-euro sale of a majority stake to Partners Group, as well as in ROSEN’s partnership with Partners Group
- the family shareholders of SEEPEX, a leading worldwide specialist in pump technology, in the sale of the company to Ingersoll Rand Inc.
- the controlling family shareholders of Studio Babelsberg, one of Europe’s largest film studios, in the sale of Studio Babelsberg to TPG Real Estate Partners, followed by a subsequent public tender offer by TPG
- the family shareholders of Canyon Bicycles and TSG Consumer Partners in the sale of a majority stake in Canyon Bicycles to Groupe Bruxelles Lambert
Growth Companies
- FINN, a leading car subscription platform based in Germany, in its:
- $110 million Series B financing round led by Korelya Capital, including both new and existing investors, with an implied company value of more than $500 million
- $110 million Series C financing round led by Planet First Partners, with an underlying post-money valuation of more than $650 million
- Celonis, a German decacorn and global leader in execution management valued at $13 billion, in its $400 million Series D extension led by the Qatar Investment Authority, including both new and existing investors
- Armira in its €30 million anchor investment as part of a €60 million private placement of primary shares in tonies SE, the world’s largest interactive audio platform for children
- The KraftHeinz Company in its acquisition of an 85% stake in Just Spices, an online shop for spices
- Picnic International, an online food retailer, in connection with its partnership with Edeka and in Edeka’s investment in Picnic
- Sanity Group, one of Europe’s leading cannabis companies, in its formation of Endosane Pharmaceuticals, a developer of pharmaceuticals for the treatment of neuropsychiatric and psychiatric disorders
Dr. Bauer chairs the firm’s German Experience Committee and is a member of the firm’s Global Experience Committee.
Credentials
Education
- Dr. jur., University of Tübingen, 2002
- Second State Exam, State of Baden- Württemberg, 1999
- First State Exam, University of Tübingen, 1997
Admissions
- Frankfurt am Main
Associations
Member, International Bar Association (IBA)
Member, American Bar Association (ABA)
Member, German-American Lawyers Association (DAJV)
Languages
English
French