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DR. DIRK JANSSEN
DR. DIRK JANSSEN
Partner
CORPORATE
MUNICH
T: +49 89 237086 0
D: +49 89 237086 160
M: +49 151 44048611
[email protected]
Summary
Dr. Dirk Janssen is a partner in the Munich Corporate Group. He has wide experience of private equity
and M&A activities, with particular emphasis on leveraged buy-outs and cross-border transactions in the
mid and large cap sector. His practice includes significant experience in advising corporates, funds,
institutional investors and private equity houses.
Dirk has completed a commercial apprenticeship and worked for various international companies and
law firms in Germany, the UK and Asia before joining Watson Farley & Williams. He is co-author of a
commentary on private equity law and regularly publishes articles on corporate law related topics. Dirk
is fluent in German and English. He is named as a “frequently recommended lawyer” for M&A and
Private Equity in the German legal directory, JUVE Handbuch.
Experience
Advising KGAL on € 111 m co-investment with General Electric in Spanish solar thermal power
plant Extresol II (50 MW).
Advising management shareholders in connection with the sale of Commarco GmbH to the WPP
Group.
Education
2003: Doctorate, University of Giessen (JSD)
2003: Second State Exam, Higher R.C. Frankfurt
1999: First State Examination, University of Giessen (first state exam)
1999: Specialised Export Clerk (Außenhandelskaufmann)
Author/Speaker/Awards
Lecturer: University of Giessen
Das Risikobegrenzungsgesetz, in: Kapitalbeteiligungs- recht: Kommentar zum Private Equity-Recht
(Schäffer-Poeschel) (The Risk Limitation Act, in: Capital Participation Law – Commentary on
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Private Equity Law)
Die sieben Sünden der PMI: Was Unternehmen trotz aller Erfahrung falsch machen (Finance) (The
seven sins of post merger integration)
Private-Equity-Gesetz könnte Mittelstand Impulse geben (Börsenzeitung) (Private Equity Law)
Rechtsrahmen für Investitionen – Welches Private Equity-Gesetz braucht Deutschland? (Venture
Capital Magazine) (Which private equity law is suitable for Germany?)
Wer Rechte vergibt, muss sie nicht besitzen (Horizont Sport Business) (Granting rights not a
criteria for possessing rights)
Die Regulierung abweichenden Verhaltens im Internet: eine Untersuchung verschiedener
Regulierungsansätze unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der deutschen Rechtsordnung (Nomos)
(Regulation of deviant behaviour in the internet)
Employment Record
since July 2010: Watson Farley & Williams LLP
2009-2010: Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
2003-2009: Ashurst LLP
1996: Henkel Thai Ltd.
1992 – 1994: Thyssen Krupp Stahlexport
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