Dr. Johannes Rowold

Associate Mergers & Acquisitions
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

Munich +49 89 2030 6059

Dr. Johannes Rowold

Practices

Overview

Dr. Johannes Rowold 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 in particular corporate clients, private equity and other financial investors on national and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions as well as public takeovers and corporate reorganizations.

SK Capital on the formation of a consortium with Heubach Group and the subsequent acquisition of Clariant’s Pigments business 

Yucaipa Acquisition Corporation on the business combination with SIGNA Sports United 

L Catterton on the acquisition of a majority stake in BIRKENSTOCK Group  

TPG Growth on the acquisition of People 2.0

Paragon Partners on the acquisition of 7days group, a multi-channel mail order company for modern workwear

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Thought Leadership

Select Publications

The right to appoint the special auditor in stock corporations, Betriebs-Berater (BB), 2020, p. 1865 (co-author with Dr. Jan-Benedikt Fischer)

More legal certainty in the shareholders’ general meeting, Der Betrieb (DB), 2019, p. 712 (co-author with Dr. Achim Herfs) 

Duties and options for action of board members in international conflicts of jurisdictions, 2019, Baden-Baden: Nomos

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2020Germany

Languages

  • German
  • English

Education

  • Higher Regional Court of HamburgSecond State Examination2020
  • Bucerius Law SchoolDr. jur.2019
  • University of California, Los Angeles, School of LawVisiting Researcher2018
  • Bucerius Law SchoolFirst State Examination2016
  • Northwestern Pritzker School of LawExchange Semester2013