Kolja von Bismarck

In recent years Kolja and his team have inter alia advised:

• Global Loan Agency Services Limited as facilities agent, GLAS Trust Corporation Limited as existing security agent and TMF Trustee Limited as new security agent, on the restructuring of BARTEC, a German manufacturer of explosion safety equipment.
• Global Loan Agency Services in connection with the restructuring of Galapagos Holding S.A.  
• Volkswagen AG in its proposed co-investment with Ford Motor Company in autonomous vehicle technology company, Argo AI. 
• A leading German automotive OEM on the refinancing of its investment in a provider of ride hailing services.
• Losberger De Boer Group on its financial and operative restructuring.
• A leading U.S. automotive OEM in relation to the restructuring of a key supplier.
• A major private equity investor in relation to the acquisition of debt instruments in the context of the restructuring of a distressed retail Group.
• A leading German bank on the refinancing of its investment in a FinTech venture.
• The Senior Lenders’ Ad Hoc Committee on the financial restructuring of H.C. Starck Group.
• A Senior Lenders’ Ad Hoc Committee regarding the restructuring of IVG Group in the insolvency of IVG AG.
• The Agent of the Senior Lenders on the financial restructuring of Basler Fashion Group.
• A leading German utility provider on its financial and corporate restructuring.
• The Agent of the Senior Lenders on the restructuring of the Petroplus Group.
• Leading U.S. investors on the restructuring of their investments in German biogas and commodity assets.
• A leading German electricity producer on the restructuring of its distressed foreign offshore investments.
• A leading European bank on the restructuring of one of the largest European offshore Windparks.
• General Motors Europe on the restructuring of the Adam Opel Group.

*Some of the above matters were handled by Kolja prior to joining Sidley.

Kolja is a member of the board of the Freunde der Preussischen Schlösser & Gärten, Berlin and a member — for many years as a member of the government — of the German Order of St. John, which operates numerous senior citizen homes, hospitals and hospices and an ambulance service.

• Member of the Insolvency Law Committee of the German Bar Association (Insolvenzrechtsausschuß des Deutschen Anwaltsvereins (DAV)
• President and Founding Member of Gesellschaft für Restrukturierung TMA Deutschland e.V., the German section of the Turnaround Management Association TMA
• Member of the International Insolvency Institute, Fairfax, Virginia, USA