Dr. Thomas Hornberger

Associate Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

Munich +49 89 2030 6041

Dr. Thomas Hornberger

Practices

Overview

Dr. Thomas Hornberger is a corporate associate in the Munich office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP.

He focuses on all aspects of German business and corporate law and advises corporate clients, private equity funds and other financial investors on national and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions as well as public takeovers and corporate reorganizations.

  • Charlesbank Capital Partners on the acquisition of Maltego Technologies GmbH
  • Tower International, Inc. on the sale of its European business to Financière SNOP Dunois S.A.*
  • Advent International on the acquisition of the methacrylates business of Evonik Industries AG for EUR 3 billion*
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb Company on the disposal of Celgene Corporation's Otezla business to Amgen Inc. for USD 13,4 billion*
  • Microsoft Corporation on ongoing corporate law matters (e.g. mergers)*
  • VEM Vermögensverwaltung GmbH (Merckle group) on ongoing corporate restructuring matters (e.g. mergers and demergers)*
  • Borealis AG on the sale of the nitrogen business to AGROFERT*
  • Catalent, Inc. on the acquisition of RheinCell Therapeutics GmbH*

* Experience prior to joining Kirkland

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Munich, Germany

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Thought Leadership

Select Publications

Legal form preserving relocation of the registered office, mergers and changes in legal form of partnerships within the EU: An analysis de lege lata and de lege ferenda, Studien zum Gesellschaftsrecht, Vol. 17, 2020 (Baden-Baden: Nomos)

“The model railway” (exam in law of inheritance), JA 11/2019, p. 828 (together with Martin Löhnig, Magdalena Mayr and Simon Naczinsky)

Basic cases concerning the contract in favor of third parties, JA 02/2015, p. 93

The International Criminal Court. History, Legitimation, Controversies of a “World Criminal Court”, Krieg und Recht 2014, p. 191

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2018Germany

Languages

  • German
  • English
  • Spanish

Education

  • University of RegensburgDr. jur.2018
  • Higher Regional Court of NurembergSecond State Examination2017
  • University of RegensburgFirst State Examination2015