Maximilian Schott

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About Maximilian Schott

I assist industrial corporate clients, financial sponsors, and emerging technology companies on the structuring, negotiating and execution of complex domestic and cross-border M&A projects, challenging corporate restructurings, as well as on private equity and venture capital transactions. In addition, I have significant experience in advising investors on acquisitions, disposals, and refinancing of complex real estate and infrastructure projects. I regularly support clients across the tech, automotive, energy, chemical, industrial, pharma, and health care industries. Recently, I advised, inter alia, SAP on its joint venture with DEDIQ, whereby SAP contributed its financial and insurance services business (co-investment DEDIQ €500 million), Plastic Omnium on the acquisition of the automotive lighting business from ams OSRAM, Suez on the sale of its recycling and recovery operations to Schwarz Group (enterprise value €1.1 billion), STERIS on its acquisition of Cantel Medical ($3.6 billion) and of Key Surgical ($850 million), Solvay on the sale of its percarbonate business to Latour Capital, The Riverside Company on its sale of Arrowhead to Genstar, Arsenal Capital Partners on its acquisition of ATP Group from Bregal, as well as Atlas Arteria on the refinancing of the Warnow tunnel (€157 million). Prior to joining Jones Day, I practiced at a boutique law firm in Munich, where I represented, among others, German unicorns Delivery Hero and GetYourGuide on financing rounds and acquisitions. I am the founder of the Hans-Jürgen Papier Inn of the International Legal Honor Society of Phi Delta Phi in Munich, a nonprofit organization with more than members promoting legal ethics in society around the world. Since 2019, I have been privileged to serve as province president of Phi Delta Phi in Europe.