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Sonja Ruttmann

Sonja
Ruttmann

Associate Attorney

CONTACT INFO

[email protected]

TEL:+49 89 189 33-256

FAX:+49 89 189 33-356

Munich

Marstallstrasse 11, 80539 Munich, Germany

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PRACTICE

Mergers and Acquisitions Artificial Intelligence Business Restructuring and Reorganization Capital Markets Energy FDA and Health Care International Trade Power and Renewables Private Equity Technology Transactions White Collar Defense and Investigations

BIOGRAPHY

Sonja Ruttmann is an associate in the Munich office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of its Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Restructuring and Reorganization, Private Equity and Capital Markets Practice Groups.

Sonja specializes in private and public M&A, corporate law and private equity and has advised on many complex domestic and international cross-border mergers and acquisitions including formation and dissolution of joint ventures and carve-out scenarios as well as private equity and venture capital transactions. She represents clients, public and private, in auctions, asset and share deals as well as mergers across a broad range of sectors, including in particular in the fields of automotive (including autonomous driving), technology and engineering, capital markets, energy and infrastructure, as well as digital security and cybersecurity.

She further advises in stock corporation and capital markets laws. Her work includes the advice of management and supervisory boards, also with regard to corporate governance issues.

Another focus of her work is advising on foreign trade issues and investment control laws where she has advised various German and U.S. as well as Chinese clients and guided them through the administrative process.

The Legal 500 Deutschland  recognized Sonja in its 2023 edition in the category International Trade.

She is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Diversity Committee. She was recently seconded to the firm’s New York office. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Sonja worked at another major international law firm in Munich and gained in house experience on her secondment to the legal department of one of the world’s leading global engineering and technology firms.

A native German speaker, she is fluent in English and speaks French as well as Spanish.

EDUCATION

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich - 2005 Law Degree

ADMISSIONS

Germany - Rechtsanwältin

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Client Alert - November 20, 2023 | International Comparative Legal Guide – Foreign Direct Investment Regimes 2024
Press Releases - November 13, 2023 | Gibson Dunn Promotes 35 Lawyers to Partnership
Article - June 29, 2023 | Why Int’l Investors Should Keep An Eye On German M&A Regs
Client Alert - May 8, 2023 | German Corporate Law Update – 2023
Webcasts - March 15, 2023 | Webcast: CFIUS and German FDI Review – A Comparative Discussion and Focus on Practical Implications
Article - February 23, 2023 | Deutsches Gesellschaftsrecht 2023: Ein turbulentes Jahr
Article - February 2, 2022 | German Corporate Law 2022: At the Cross-Roads of Continued Globalization and Keeping Your Own House in Order
Client Alert - January 13, 2022 | 2021 Year-End German Law Update
Client Alert - February 5, 2021 | 2020 Year-End Sanctions and Export Controls Update
Client Alert - January 14, 2021 | 2020 Year-End German Law Update
Publications - July 6, 2020 | The M&A Lawyer: Corporate M&A in Times of the Corona Crisis – Specific Consequences of the Pandemic for the German Transaction Business
Client Alert - May 7, 2020 | Corporate M&A in Times of the Corona Crisis – Specific Consequences of the Pandemic for the German Transaction Business
Client Alert - April 14, 2020 | Corporate/M&A in Times of the Corona Crisis – Current Legal Developments for German Business
Client Alert - January 10, 2020 | 2019 Year-End German Law Update
Client Alert - January 13, 2017 | 2016 Year-End German Law Update
Client Alert - January 8, 2016 | 2015 Year-End German Law Update
Client Alert - January 9, 2015 | 2014 Year-End German Law Update
Client Alert - January 15, 2014 | 2013 Year-End German Law Update
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