Dr. Markus Bauer advises both German and international clients in connection with national and cross-border corporate acquisitions, the formation and administration of joint ventures, private equity transactions and the structuring and restructuring of corporations and corporate groups.. A further focus of his work is on advising management boards, managing directors and supervisory boards of predominantly medium-sized companies on their respective duties and the development of compliance programs and representing shareholders in shareholder disputes. For many years, Markus Bauer has lectured on Mergers & Acquisitions as part of an LL.M. program at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences.
- Corporate law
- (Re-)structuring
- Mergers & Acquisitions, joint ventures
- Private equity financing
- Advising services in the area of compliance and internal investigations
- 1984 - 1989 Law studies in Frankfurt am Main
- 1990 - 1993 Research assistant at the University of Frankfurt am Main (Institute for Comparative Law)
- 1991 - 1992 Schulte-zur-Hausen Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (USA)
- 1995 PhD (Dr. iur.) at the University of Frankfurt am Main
- 1997 Admitted to the German bar
- 1997 - 2007 Lawyer at Schürmann & Partner, Coudert Brothers and Jones Day
- 2007 Lawyer at RITTERSHAUS law firm
- Teaching appointment at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences in the field of Mergers & Acquisitions
- Honorary member of the Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats (AIJA) (International Association of Young Lawyers)
- Member of the Gesellschaftsrechtliche Vereinigung - Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht (VGR) e. V., Frankfurt am Main (Corporate Law Association – Academic Association for Business and Corporate Law)
- Member of the Deutsch-Amerikanische-Juristen-Vereinigung (DAJV) (German-American Lawyers’ Association) and the American Bar Association Section of International Law
- Kommentierung der §§ 43 bis 49 Geldwäschegesetz (Geldwäscherechtliche Meldepflichten) gemeinsam mit Lars Schmidt in: Brock, Kommentar zum Geldwäschegesetz, 1. Auflage 2024 (erschienen bei Wolters Kluwer)
- "Key Investor Information Document für Investmentfonds", in Teuber (Hrsg.): Wertpapierrecht 2011
- „Konsens statt Kampf – Unternehmensübernahmen und -restrukturierungen mittels Debt-Equity Swaps“, Markt und Mittelstand 09/2006
- „Die kleine AG: Eine Alternative für den Mittelstand“, Markt und Mittelstand 04/2006
- „Unternehmer müssen die Hosen runterlassen – Publizitätspflichten mittelständischer Unternehmen“, Markt und Mittelstand 12/2004
- „Gläubigerschutz durch eine formelle Nennkapitalziffer – kapitalgesellschafsrechtliche Notwendigkeit oder überholtes Konzept?“, 1995
- Advising Ehrhardt + Partner Group on the acquisition of a majority stake in Dutch Groenewout B.V.
- Advising logistics company Ehrhardt Partner Group on its investment in Greenplan GmbH
- Advising Malt on the acquisition of the freelancer marketplace Comatch
- Advising real estate investor Vision Group on strategic partnership with KKR
- Advising Merz-Group on investment in start-up company Brooklyn Soap
- Advising Keller Group on the sale of Wannenwetsch to DEUBIS Group
- Advising CureVac AG during its IPO on the NASDAQ
- Advising CureVac AG in a private financing round of around 560 million euros
- Advising Merz Pharma GmbH & Co. KG on the sale of the SENATOR Group to the private equity company Perusa
- Advising dievini Hopp BioTech holding GmbH & Co. KG on the acquisition of LTS Lohmann Therapie Systeme AG
- Advising Power Plus Communications AG on exiting Siemens Venture and British Gas and joining a Hamburg-based group of investors