Annekatrin Pelster is an of counsel in the Frankfurt office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity, Capital Markets and Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Groups.

Ms. Pelster advises corporate entities and private equity investors with a focus on public M&A transactions as well as corporate and securities law, including joint ventures, corporate structural measures, corporate governance and capital markets compliance.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Annekatrin Pelster was a corporate associate in the Frankfurt office of a renowned US law firm.

Ms. Pelster is fluent in German and English and advanced in French.

Experience

Representative transactions include advising:

• Advent International on the public tender offer for DOUGLAS Holding AG.*
• Anheuser-Busch InBev on general corporate matters and various M&A transactions.*
• Apollo Management on the backstop of the capital increase of Infineon Technologies AG.*
• Bayer AG on the public tender offer for Schering AG.*
• CHORUS Clean Energy AG on the public tender offer by Capital Stage AG.*
• Equinox and Steilmann Holding AG on the public tender offer for Adler Modemärkte AG.*
• Fair Value REIT-AG on the public tender offer by DEMIRE Deutsche Mittelstand Real Estate AG.*
• Fosun International on the acquisition of a 23.16% stake in TOM TAILOR Holding AG.*
• Hellman & Friedman on the IPO of Scout24 AG and a subsequent block trade.*
• HJM Investment GmbH & Co. KG on the sale of a stake in RENOLIT SE and the acquisition of RKW SE.
• Lazard as financial advisor to the supervisory board of Innogy in the tender offer for Innogy by E.ON.
• Nestlé S.A. on the sale of the Powerbar business and on other corporate matters.*
• One Equity Partners on the acquisition of transformer manufacturer SGB-SMIT from private equity investor BC Partners.
• One Equity Partners on the acquisition of Powertech Transformers Group by its portfolio company SGB-SMIT
• One Equity Partners on the acquisition of Alltub Group, a market leader in aluminum and laminate specialty packaging for the cosmetics industry and other markets.
• Perella Weinberg Partners as financial advisor to Deutsche Börse in connection with the merger of Deutsche Börse and London Stock Exchange.*
• Xella, a leading building materials company headquartered in Germany, and the Management Team on the sale of Xella to Lone Star.

(*Experience Prior To Joining Gibson Dunn)