Dr. Björn Holland

In recent years, he has advised:

• Crown Bioscience in its acquisition of the IndivuServ business unit of Indivumed GmbH.
• COYO GmbH, a portfolio company of Marlin Equity Partners, on the acquisition of Smarp OY.
• Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., a global insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting services firm, in its acquisition of the treaty reinsurance brokerage operations of Willis Towers Watson for US$3.25 billion.
• COYO GmbH, a portfolio company of Marlin Equity Partners, on the acquisition of Jubiwee SAS.
• German automotive supplier Linde + Wiemann on its successful financial restructuring.
• Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. on its US$3.57 billion acquisition of Willis Towers Watson Assets.
• Riot Blockchain, Inc. on its acquisition of Whinstone US.
• Great Hill Partners in connection with its acquisition of Notonthehighstreet, a UK curated online marketplace.
• Marlin Management Company, LLC on the acquisition of a majority stake in COYO GmbH.
• EMH Digital Growth Fund GmbH & Co. KG with its acquisition of a majority stake in Native Instruments Holding GmbH.
• EQT Partners on the merger between FocusVision and Confirmit.
• ACPS Automotive, a technology and market leader in towbars/hitches for cars, SUVs, and vans, on the completion of its financial restructuring.
• RTI Surgical Holdings, Inc. in the sale of OEM Business
• Volkswagen AG in its proposed co-investment with Ford Motor Company in autonomous vehicle technology company, Argo AI.  
• TowerBrook in its sale of Metallo, a metal recycler and refiner, to Aurubis AG.  
• The major shareholders of IVG in connection with the sale of Officefirst to Blackstone.
• Bregal Unternehmerkapital on the acquisition of Onlineprinters GmbH.
• PSAV on the acquisition of KFP Group.
• Intermediate Capital Group on the acquisition of an interest in Minimax Viking Group.
• The ad hoc committee of SynLoan I lenders of IVG Immobilien AG.
• Intermediate Capital Group on the refinancing of, and acquisition of an equity stake in, Nora Systems Group.
• Realtime Technology AG and certain members of its majority shareholders on the sale to Dassault Systèmes.
• Martinrea/Anchorage on the acquisition of the assets of Honsel AG i.I.
• Gilde Buy Out Partners on the acquisition of Teleplan International N.V., by way of a public takeover (public to private).
• Change Capital Partners on the acquisition of a majority stake in Schneekoppe Group.
• Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. on its €3.6 billion acquisition of Merckle/ratiopharm Group.
• Apollo on its backstop arrangement in relation to a €700 million capital increase of Infineon Technologies AG.
• On the sale of ATS Stahlschmidt & Maiworm GmbH to United Wheels Group.

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