Taylor Wessing has hired Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom M&A partner Walter Henle to fill the role of German private equity head. The hire comes as separately, former Skadden Arps partner Peter Veranneman joins Bird & Bird’s Frankfurt and Dusseldorf offices from German bond company DGVA(Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Vertretung von Anleihegläubigern), where he was managing director in Cologne.
Henle will be based in Munich but work alongside M&A partners Michael Stein and Christian Kleeberg in Frankfurt. He is known for his work in the leveraged buyout space and previously represented Apax Partners in the €920m sale of its majority stake in IFCO Systems, and Allianz Capital Partners GmbH on the Fairchild Dornier investment.
