Renzenbrink & Partner opens Munich office with a financing team led by Bernd Egbers

5 December 2019

Renzenbrink & Partner is on an expansion course and will open an office in Munich with Dr Bernd Egbers as of 2020. At the new location, a financing practice with a team led by Bernd Egbers will be established, closely interlinked with the Hamburg-based private equity and tax teams. The start-up team in Munich is planned be expanded up to six to eight professionals by the end of 2020, including an additional financing partner.

Bernd Egbers’ clients include private equity firms such as Capvis, DPE Deutsche Private Equity, Quadriga, Equistone and Waterland. In addition Bernd Egbers has also been regularly mandated by debt funds such as BlackRock, Permira and Ares.

With this step, Renzenbrink & Partner continues its strong focus on small and mid-cap private equity transactions.

Dr Ulf Renzenbrink: “Bernd is a top-tier leverage finance lawyer and fits very well into our partnership. We are now in a position to offer our clients a complete set of advisory services for “private equity transactions” comprising tax structuring, corporate and financing. We want to position ourselves as a genuine alternative to the top teams of the market leaders. With the opening of the Munich office, we are also showing our presence in the German private equity centre and thus moving closer to existing and potential future clients. We are all very much looking forward to working with Bernd and are convinced that together we can take the firm to the next level.”

The Hamburg office also has new staff. The Hamburg tax team will be strengthened at the turn of the year by Nicole Militzer, who spent four years at Linklaters’ Munich office and joins Renzenbrink as Senior Associate. On 1 December, associate Jan Axel Jost from Gleiss Lutz joined the private equity/corporate team. Further additions are planned.