People
Dr Jan Holst
Biography
Jan advises private equity investors, international and domestic companies on cross-border M&A transactions, private equity deals, joint ventures, leveraged buy-outs and reorganisations.
He also advises clients on all areas of general corporate law.
Jan studied law in Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom with a focus on comparative and European corporate law and worked for various international leading law firms as a research associate and during his legal traineeship in Hamburg and Barcelona. He received a doctorate in corporate/restructuring law from University of Freiburg (summa cum laude).
Practice areas
- Corporate and M&A
- Private equity
- M and A JVs and corporate reorganizations
Sectors
- Private equity
- Private capital
Selected experience
- BC Partners in connection with its acquisition of Tentamus group.
- BC Partners on the proposed acquisition of Synlab's testing services business.
- Kühne Holding AG and E3X Partners GmbH on its acquisition of Aenova Group from BC Partner.
- PAI Partners on the acquisition of a majority stake in the budget design hotel chain Motel One and on its financing.
- Partners Group and CVC on the attempted acquisition of CeramTec.
- Partners Group on the sale of VSB Group to TotalEnergies.
- A group of financial institutions on its acquisition of 49,9% on the proposed 960 MW Offshore-Windpark „He Dreiht“ from EnBW.
- Bridgepoint on its acquisition of Infinigate Group from H.I.G.
- One Equity Partners in connection with its acquisition of VASS.
- One Equity Partners in connection with its acquisition of MCL.
Education
- Dr. iur., University of Freiburg, 2019
- Second German Law Degree, Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Hamburg, 2016
- First German Law Degree, University of Münster, 2013
Admissions
- Admitted as German Rechtsanwalt, Germany, 2018