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Ulrike Friese-Dormann is a partner in the Global Corporate Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. She joined Milbank in 2004 as part of the team founding Milbank's Munich office. Ulrike Friese-Dormann has significant experience in "corporate advisory" work and public M&A transactions ("Aktien- und Konzernrecht, Umwandlungsrecht, Übernahmerecht") including corporate reorganizations and takeovers. She advises numerous listed companies and financial sponsors on all aspects of corporate law and takeover law. She also works for clients in the context of actions of minority shareholders and appraisal proceedings following corporate reorganizations.
Her experience includes acting for ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG on its sale to financial sponsors KKR and Permira and the acquisition of the SBS group as well as during its previously intended takeover and the subsequent tender offer by Axel Springer, the take private of Edscha AG by The Carlyle Group and the statutory merger of ProSieben and SAT.1 to form the largest German private TV station. Ulrike Friese-Dormann also advised on various "squeeze-outs" including Deutsche Bahn AG, the state-owned German railway company, and Energie Baden-Württemberg AG regarding the squeeze-outs of the minority shareholders of Stinnes AG and Salamander AG, respectively. She also advised Stinnes AG and Infineon Technologies AG on the spin-off of business units as well as Interbrew S.A. on corporate and takeover law aspects of the formation of a joint venture with Gabriel Sedlmayr Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu KGaA. Apart from that she advised the supervisory board of BERU AG in the context of the takeover by BorgWarner and Mayfair, the fund of the Herz family, in connection with the acquisition of a minority participation in PUMA AG. Ulrike Friese-Dormann also acted for Gabriel Sedlmayr Spaten-Franziskaner Bräu KGaA and Dinkelacker Schwabenbräu AG on the conclusion of settlement agreements with minority shareholders.
Ulrike Friese-Dormann studied law, philosophy and German literature at the universities of Mainz and Dijon/France and obtained her doctorate degree (Dr. jur.) from Mainz (2000). Before joining Milbank, Ulrike Friese-Dormann was an attorney with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Ulrike Friese-Dormann was admitted to the German bar in 2000. She speaks German, English and French. | 