Banking & Finance
Global Guide 2024 : Germany
Band 2
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+49 69 71914 3400Chambers Review
Milbank is a well-reputed law firm advising clients across its Frankfurt and Munich offices on a broad range of banking and finance issues. The team is particularly active on complex leveraged finance, refinancing and acquisition finance transactions, and offers noteworthy expertise in syndicated loans and alternative lending structures including Schuldschein loans. Due to its strong global network, the team is well placed to handle multi-jurisdictional deals. Its clientele, which consists of large corporates, private equity funds and multinational lending consortiums, further evidences the firm's presence in the market and strong visibility among both borrowers and lenders.
Work Highlights
- Milbank advised KAEFER on a new EUR650 million syndicated financing with ESG component to refinance its existing 2018 bond and super senior credit facilities.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team at Milbank is fast, diligent and well informed. Its lawyers ask the right questions and are always interested in finding commercially sound solutions."
"Every lawyer in the team is very professional and can handle complex topics with a palatable solution for all parties."
"We rate the team's commercial awareness as very strong: Milbank sees a lot of transactions and is always on top of new developments in the market and can hence fully inform and update us."
"The law firm is capable of handling all kinds of matters, no matter how complex or sophisticated, always to my utmost satisfaction."
"Milbank is one of the few firms capable of seeing the commercial impacts, pointing them out and giving an opinion on them."
"The team at Milbank is fast, diligent and well informed. Its lawyers ask the right questions and are always interested in finding commercially sound solutions."
"Every lawyer in the team is very professional and can handle complex topics with a palatable solution for all parties."
"We rate the team's commercial awareness as very strong: Milbank sees a lot of transactions and is always on top of new developments in the market and can hence fully inform and update us."
"The law firm is capable of handling all kinds of matters, no matter how complex or sophisticated, always to my utmost satisfaction."
"Milbank is one of the few firms capable of seeing the commercial impacts, pointing them out and giving an opinion on them."
Notable Practitioners
Barbara Mayer-Trautmann is considered a leading banking practitioner with prowess in handling complex corporate and acquisition finance mandates. Clients from the borrower and lender sides alike benefit from her considerable experience in cross-border mandates. She has expertise in traditional, leveraged and infrastructure finance transactions.
"We think highly of Barbara Mayer-Trautmann. She makes herself available within a short amount of time, explains things in an easy-to-understand manner, and we wouldn't hesitate in using her for complicated deals."
"Barbara Mayer-Trautmann is clearly among the top names in the market."
Thomas Ingenhoven enjoys a very strong standing in the German banking and finance market, his clientele comprising corporate and PE borrowers as well as banks and debt funds as lenders. He regularly handles a range of complex cross-border mandates from refinancings to corporate and acquisition financings.
"Thomas Ingenhoven is a very pragmatic and open-minded person and lawyer. He is my go-to for complex matters."
"He is one of the leading leveraged finance lawyers in Germany and clearly someone we like to choose for transactions."
"I could not wish for a better counsel than Thomas Ingenhoven."