About
Olaf is counsel in our M&A practice in New York.
Olaf advises domestic and international clients in M&A transactions on the buy as well as on the sell side, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings, with a particular focus on cross-border matters.
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- CrowdStrike on its acquisitions of Pangea and Onum, as well as its pending acquisitions of SGNL and Seraphic.
- Leggett & Platt on the pending $285m sale of its Aerospace Products Group to Tinicum.
- Keysight Technologies on its sale of Spirent’s High Speed Ethernet and Network Security Testing Business, as part of Keysight’s acquisition of Spirent.
- CrowdStrike on its acquisition of Adaptive Shield.
- Zeus Company on its sale to EQT Partners.
- Blackstone portfolio company, Schenck Process Group, on the sale of its food and performance materials business to Hillenbrand, Inc.
- BorgWarner on the separation of its fuel systems and aftermarket businesses.
- Emerson on its acquisition of Flexim Flexible Industriemeßtechnik GmbH.
- Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease on its acquisition of LogicBio® Therapeutics, Inc.
- Hapag-Lloyd on its acquisition of terminal business from SM SAAM.
- CarLotz on its sale to Shift Technologies.
- Cazoo on its $7 billion business combination with US SPAC AJAX I, including a concurrent $800 million PIPE.
- Royal Caribbean Group on its all-cash carve-out of the Azamara cruise line to Sycamore Partners, including its three-ship fleet and associated intellectual property.
- Royal Caribbean Cruises on the acquisition of Hapag-Lloyd Cruises by TUI Cruises, a joint venture co-owned with TUI AG.
- CoreMedia AG on its sale to Los Angeles based OpenGate Capital.
- Emerson Electric on its acquisition of the Aventics Group from Triton.
- DEUTZ AG on its partial financing of the acquisition of Neue Halberg-Guss by companies advised by One Square Advisors.
- Maersk Line on the divestiture of its global dry bulk shipping operations to The China Navigation Company.
- Neology, Inc., a portfolio company of One Equity Partners, on its acquisition of the automated license plate recognition business from 3M.
- Maersk Line on its acquisition of container liner company Hamburg Sued.
- Hapag-Lloyd AG on its acquisition of container liner company United Arab Shipping Company.
- Expedia, Inc. as majority shareholder of trivago GmbH on trivago’s IPO at the NASDAQ stock exchange.
- Expedia, Inc. on its acquisition of a majority stake in hotel meta search engine trivago.
- Wärtsilä Corp. on the acquisition of the Marine Systems International unit from L-3 Communications Corp.
- Madison International Realty on the sale of Franfurt high rise “Trianon Tower” for €540 million.
- Berggruen Holdings on the acquisition of the Karstadt Group (2010) and the subsequent divestiture (2014).
- Liberty Global, Inc. on the acquisition of Kabel Baden-Württemberg.
Olaf Ehlers
Counsel
New York Office
3 World Trade Center
175 Greenwich Street, 51st Floor
New York 10007