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Kirkland & Ellis Advised Gilde Buy Out Partners on Acquisition of Eismann AG

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP advised Gilde Buy Out Partners on the acquisition of Eismann AG. The value of the transaction is confidential. Eismann AG, headquartered in Mettmann, Germany, is a leading direct seller for frozen food in Europe. Kirkland advises Gilde Buy Out Partners on an ongoing basis.

The Kirkland team in Munich was led by corporate partners Volker Kullmann and Dr. Christian Zuleger and included corporate partner Dominik Stühler, finance partners Dr. Markus Feil and Wolfgang Nardi, tax partner Dr. Roderic Pagel, corporate associates Nicole Schlatter, Sylvia Strumpler and Dirk Kramer, as well as finance associates Christine Kaniak and Rositsa Nacheva. London partners Shaun Goodman and Sarah Jordan counseled on competition matters.

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Kirkland & Ellis LLP is a 1,500-attorney law firm representing global clients in complex corporate/private equity and tax, restructuring, litigation and dispute resolution/arbitration, and intellectual property and technology matters. The Firm has offices in Munich, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Shanghai and Washington, D.C. The Munich office consists of approximately 30 attorneys focused primarily on private equity, mergers & acquisitions, restructuring/insolvency, acquisition financing and tax matters.