Stefan Kroeker is an associate in the Global Corporate Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. He joined Milbank in 2004 as part of the team founding Milbank's Munich office.
Stefan Kroeker specializes in mergers & acquisitions with a particular focus on private equity.
His recent published transactions include the sale of the SULO Group by Apax and Blackstone to the French Veolia Group, the LBO of the Wessel-Werk Group by DZ Equity Partner, the sale of Linos AG to Candover, the sale of Chemtec Leuna by SI Group to the French Minakem Group, the sale of the HAPA and Laetus businesses from Robbins & Myers to Coesia, the sale of HT Troplast's business units Trocellen and Dynos to Furukawa/Otsuka and to M2 Capital Partners, respectively, the LBO of LR-International by Apax, the restructuring of Honsel in connection with the sale of Carlyle's share in the Company to Ripplewood, the LBO of the cable TV business of Deutsche Telekom by a consortium consisting of Apax, Goldman Sachs PIA and Providence, the friendly takeover of Ixos Software by Open Text, the LBO of SULO Group by Apax and Blackstone, the sale of SULO Australia/New Zealand to GS Private Equity and two of the largest technology exits in Germany in 2003 and 2005 (the sale of SuSE Linux by Apax, AdAstra and e-millennium to Novell and the acquisition of DNSint.com AG by Arrow Electronics).
Born in 1972, Stefan Kroeker received his legal education in Germany and France, where he also lectured German law. Before joining the firm, Stefan Kroeker worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Co. in Brazil and as a lawyer for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Germany.
He is qualified as a lawyer in Germany and speaks German, Portuguese, English and French. |