Studied (law and physics) in Göttingen, Berkeley / USA and Kiel, sponsored by the German National Academic Foundation, Visiting Associate at the Boston Consulting Group in Munich, lawyer since 2001, certified lawyer for commercial and corporate law, certified lawyer for tax law, notary since 2014
Specialisation: M&A - mergers and acquisitions, company succession, restructuring, corporate law, tax law, notarial services.
Dr Hauke Thilow specialises in corporate transactions, in particular the purchase and sale of companies. He has advised on numerous company acquisitions and reorganisations for family businesses and listed stock corporations. He also advises entrepreneurs and companies in the field of corporate law, including stock corporation law, and corporate succession. Until 2005, Dr Thilow worked for a law firm in Hamburg specialising in company acquisitions. In 2004, he spent a secondment with the US law firm King & Spalding in New York.
Dr Hauke Thilow is a lecturer at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel in the field of corporate law and chairman of the specialist lawyers' admission committee for commercial and corporate law of the Schleswig-Holstein Bar Association.
Selection of publicly known reference mandates:
- Advising the shareholders of the North German FTTH/fibre optic group "TNG" on the sale of a majority stake to a subsidiary of the listed infrastructure investor ICG
- Advising the shareholders of the SAP and IT consulting company "QUANTO AG" on the sale of a majority stake to the listed company adesso SE
- Advising EDEKA on the intended takeover of 72 stores of the REAL supermarket chain
- Advising the shareholder of the payment service provider "allpago GmbH" with a focus of activities and subsidiaries in South America on the sale of the group of companies to the international payment service provider "PPRO"
- Advising the shareholders of the small animal centre Asterlagen from Duisburg on the sale of the company to AniCura
- Advising on the sale of further veterinary clinics and veterinary practices throughout Germany to Anicura, Evidensia and Tierarztpartner Plus, including the sale of a majority stake in Tierklinik Haar to AniCura and Tierärztliche Klinik für Kleintiere from Norderstedt to Evidensia
- Advising the shareholders on the sale of the IT security and consulting company "ESE Engineering und Software-Entwicklung GmbH" from Osnabrück to a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG
- Advising EDEKA Handelsgesellschaft Nord GmbH in connection with the acquisition of a stake in Heinrich von Allwörden GmbH
- Advising the founders and management of "PAYONE GmbH" on the sale of a majority shareholding to Sparkassen Finanzgruppe, the subsequent merger with B+S Card Service GmbH based in Frankfurt am Main and the incorporation of PAYONE GmbH into the Ingenico Group
- Advising the shareholders of "FLS GmbH" on the majority sale of the software development company for Real Time Scheduling & Route Optimisation to the listed company Deutsche Beteiligungs AG
- Advising the management of "ppi Media GmbH" and on the management buy-out from the Evers-Frank Group
- REGIOCAST GmbH & Co. KG on numerous media-for-equity transactions and the acquisition of various radio companies, e.g. the current radio station "RADIO BOB" based in Hesse
- Advising the shareholders of "Netzkontor Nord GmbH" on the majority sale of the service company for the telecommunications industry to the listed company Deutsche Beteiligungs AG
- Advising the owner of "Helmers Maschinenbau GmbH" from Osnabrück and Dörfel Maschinenbau GmbH & Co KG to Haspa Beteiligungsgesellschaft Hamburg as part of a structured sales process
- Advising the shareholders and management board members of "Virtual Minds AG" based in Freiburg on the acquisition of subsidiaries and the subsequent sale of the digital marketing and media technology provider to ProSiebenSat.1 Digital GmbH
- Advising the management of "ppi Media GmbH" on the management buy-out; the company develops and distributes software for well-known companies in the media industry
- Advising the listed company United Internet AG, based in Montabaur, on the acquisition of portfolio companies in the software and IT market, most recently on the acquisition of a stake in the search engine optimiser "ranking coach GmbH", based in Cologne
- Advising the shareholders of the group of rehabilitation clinics "AHG" to the financial investor Waterland
- Advising the sole shareholder of "INOTEC Barcode Security GmbH", based in Neumünster, on the sale of the manufacturer and developer of barcode and RFID products to the financial investor Obermark
- Advising EDEKA Handelsgesellschaft Rhein-Ruhr mbH, based in Moers, on the acquisition of the beverage wholesale chain "Trinkgut Deusche Getränke-Holding GmbH", based in Krefeld, and the associated production and logistics companies
- Advising the management of Impulse Medien GmbH on the management buy-out of the magazine title "IMPULSE" from Gruner + Jahr
- Advising EUROCAST GmbH Radio Venture & Management on the sale of the Czech radio station "LONDA" to a strategic investor
- Advising the shareholders of "R. Thomsen EU-Großschlachterei GmbH & Co. KG" and "Rüdiger Thomsen EG-Zerlegebetrieb GmbH & Co. KG" based in Bad Bramstedt to the Tönnies Group
- Advising the shareholders of the vacuum chamber manufacturer "Trinos Vakuum-Systeme GmbH" based in Göttingen to the listed company Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG
- Advising the shareholders of the temporary employment company "SH-IP GmbH" to DEKRA Arbeit GmbH, based in Stuttgart
- Advising the shareholder of "Dr.-Ing. Bernd Kriegel Ingenieure GmbH" on the sale of the planning company for engineering systems to Kofler Energies Power AG
- Advising EUROCAST GmbH Radio Venture & Management on the sale of the Polish radio station "Radio WAWA" to a strategic investor
- Advising the shareholders of the CRM company "econnex AG" with offices in Hamburg, Kiel and Nuremberg on the sale of the company to Avanade Deutschand GmbH
- Advising the shareholders of "Geohumus", a company for the development of soil additives based in Frankfurt am Main, on the acquisition of SKion GmbH as an investor
- Advising the shareholders of the "Andreas Paulsen" group of companies with locations in Kiel, Hamburg and Rostock on the sale of the sanitary wholesale group to a Dutch subsidiary of the listed CRH Group
