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: Deal Financing
In the face of stretched liquidity, how are corporates financing M&A deals? This session will review financing opportunities including private debt, leveraged loans and high yield bonds. This panel will review:
- What opportunities are there for sponsor-less lending for mid-cap companies?
- How has documentation evolved as the market enters a downturn and liquidity is stretched?
- What returns are direct lending for private equity and private debt funds yielding?
- How is pricing affecting valuations? And are debt / equity rations being called into question?
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SpeakersDaniel Heine Co-Founder, Managing Director, Private Debt Division Patrimonium
Thomas Pöhler Head of Germany KARTESIA
Rene Hartert Head of Direct Lending Origination DACH DWS Investment
Michael Schulze Director- Leveraged Finance BofA Securities
Christine Weis Managing Director CVC CREDIT PARTNERS
Johannes Koch Senior Reporter DEBTWIRE
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Daniel Heine is a co-founder of Patrimonium and Managing Director of the company’s Private Debt division. Prior to the company’s formation he worked as a Financial Consultant for Merrill Lynch International and before that, as a management consultant at A.T. Kearney. He studied Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen and received a Master of Arts from the University of Oxford. He also holds a Ph.D. of the University of St. Gallen.
Thomas is a senior member of Kartesia’s Investment Team with 15 years of experience in leveraged finance and private equity, sourcing, executing and monitoring investments across Europe, with a specific focus on the DACH region, where he is also heading the Munich office.
Since joining in 2013 from Commerzbank, where he started his career in leveraged finance, he helped building Kartesia’s franchise in the German-speaking countries, raised the firm’s first fund financings and also established the first hedging programme for funds raised.
Thomas holds a M.Sc. degree in Finance from Frankfurt School.
He lives with his family in Munich and London.
Rene is Head of Origination Direct Lending (DACH) at DWS Group. He has 20 years of experience in origination and execution of financial sponsor driven leveraged finance transactions with a focus on the German midmarket.
Prior to joining DWS in 2022, he worked for Natixis CIB as the Head of Sponsor Coverage for the DACH & Nordic region and before that as Director Leveraged Finance at Commerzbank.
Rene studied Business Administration at HAWK Hildesheim and is a CFA Charterholder
Michael is a Director in the EMEA Leveraged Finance team and based in Frankfurt. In his current role he is responsible
for managing the bank's Leveraged Finance origination efforts in DACH region for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He
is involved in sourcing and executing leveraged loans and high yield bonds for sponsor portfolio companies and
corporates in the region.
Prior to joining Bank of America in July 2021, Michael spent more than 10 years at Credit Suisse in London and
Frankfurt, where he worked in the Leveraged Finance team for EMEA with a particular focus on German clients and in
the Financial Sponsor Group dealing with Leveraged Finance for sponsor clients and sponsor coverage.
Approx. 75 financings for acquisitions, re-pricings and add-ons for financial sponsor owned portfolio companies and
corporates with a focus on the DACH region.
Michael holds a Master in Finance and Investments from the European Business School ("ebs") in Oestrich-Winkel and
the Stockholm School of Economics.