Mergermarket M&A Forum Germany 2023
Mergermarket’s flagship event for key players in German and cross-border M&A market
Marriott Hotel, Hamburger Allee 2, 60486 Frankfurt
18
Apr
Panel: De-risking the Exit
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SpeakersJanin Kauffmann Director, M&A Germany and Austria, Corporate Risk and Broking WTW
Lukas Nazaruk Head of FINEX & Specialties WTW
Dr. Kai Wallisch Partner CMS
Philipp Melzer Partner CMS
Cristiano Dalla Bona US Equity Markets Senior Reporter MERGERMARKET
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Janin Kauffmann LL.M. is a Director in the M&A Team of Willis Towers Watson and responsible for Transactional Risk Insurance in Germany and Austria. She is a fully qualified lawyer in Germany, with a Master of Law in International Trade law from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Before starting at Willis Towers Watson Janin was an M&A underwriter for DUAL and Zurich for around 5 years. Janin underwrote M&A risks across all European jurisdictions and for both Private Equity as well as strategic investors. Besides W&I policies she underwrote numerous identified / contingent transactional risks, such as known tax and litigation risks.
Janin Kauffmann LL.M. is a Director in the M&A Team of Willis Towers Watson and responsible for Transactional Risk Insurance in Germany and Austria. She is a fully qualified lawyer in Germany, with a Master of Law in International Trade law from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Before starting at Willis Towers Watson Janin was an M&A underwriter for DUAL and Zurich for around 5 years. Janin underwrote M&A risks across all European jurisdictions and for both Private Equity as well as strategic investors. Besides W&I policies she underwrote numerous identified / contingent transactional risks, such as known tax and litigation risks.
Corporate and M&A lawyer Kai Wallisch focusses on advising internationally operating companies in the industrial and automotive sector, often from the US. He is experienced in advising clients on the sale and acquisition of shareholdings as well as on global carve-outs and M&A transactions. He also regularly assists companies in other sectors with M&A transactions and corporate law matters.
Kai joined CMS in 2010 and has been a partner since 2021. He is a lecturer at the Stuttgart Bar Association and Stuttgart Higher Regional Court and acts as examiner in the context of the second state examination in law (final exam in German legal training). In the past, he also lectured at Steinbeis University Berlin.
Philipp Melzer has extensive experience in advising issuers, issuing banks and existing shareholders on IPOs, capital increases and secondary offerings. Clients also regularly seek his advice on bonds (especially green bonds), issuance programs and structured financial products such as asset-backed securities or derivatives. He is responsible for the DCM area and, together with Andreas Zanner, also for the ECM area of CMS in Frankfurt and, in addition to his legal work, regularly lectures on ESG compliance and capital market law issues.
Following his banking apprenticeship and training as a financial assistant at Kreissparkasse Ravensburg (1994), Philipp Melzer completed his law studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg in 1998 and completed his legal clerkship in Freiburg in 2001. He joined CMS in 2001 and has been a partner since 2008.