York Schnorbus

Practice Areas

Mergers & Acquisitions; Infrastructure; Renewable & Alternative Energy; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Corporate Governance

Career

York Schnorbus joined Sullivan & Cromwell’s Frankfurt office in 2001 and is an M&A partner in the Firms General Practice Group. He has extensive experience in public and private mergers and acquisitions and general corporate representations. His practice is very much focused on cross-border transactions involving Germany and North America.

During his more than two decades of experience, York has represented, in equal measure, financial investors of various types (mainly infrastructure funds and private equity firms), corporate clients in a wide range of industries (including in particular: utilities, financial institutions and real estate), investment banks (advisory and principal investment). He also acts as personal adviser to families and executives.

He has published a number of law review articles dealing primarily with matters of corporate, takeover and securities law.

Professional Memberships

Bar Admissions: Frankfurt, Germany

Personal

University of Pennsylvania Law School (LL.M., 2001)

Universität Mainz (Ph.D., 2000)

State of Hesse (2. State Exam, 1998)

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (1. State Exam. 1995)