Hengeler Mueller advises Deutsche Bank regarding the acquisition of a participation in Deutsche Postbank

12. September 2008

Deutsche Post holds a participation of 50 percent plus one share in the share capital of Deutsche Postbank. On 12 September 2008, Deutsche Bank and Deutsche Post signed a contract under which Deutsche Bank has purchased from Deutsche Post a 29,75% participation in Deutsche Postbank. With respect to the remaining participation of Deutsche Post, the parties agreed on put options, call options and a right of first refusal.

Hengeler Mueller advised Deutsche Bank. The Hengeler Mueller team included partners Burkhardt Meister, Michael Baumgartl, Daniela Favoccia (all M&A, Frankfurt), Georg Frowein, Frank Burmeister (both Contract Law, Frankfurt), Ernst-Thomas Kraft (Tax Law, Frankfurt), Horst Satzky (Antitrust Law, Frankfurt), Dirk Uwer (Public Law, Düsseldorf), Dirk Bliesener, Torsten Busch (both Capital Markets, Frankfurt), Edgar Wallach (Bank Regulatory Law, Frankfurt) and Christian Hoefs (Labor Law, Frankfurt) as well as counsels Martin Peters and Mathias Link and the associates David Barst, Hendrik Bockenheimer, Philipp Esser, Janine Hille, Anne Isabell Krämer, Oliver Rieckers, Dirk Reidenbach, Nikolai Warneke, Jens Wenzel, Jörn-Ahrend Witt and Manuel Zandt (all Frankfurt).