Taylor Wessing advised US-based Grant Thornton Advisors in the bidding process for Grant Thornton Germany

Led by Munich-based Corporate/M&A partner Dr Christian Traichel, Taylor Wessing has provided comprehensive German legal advice to US-based Grant Thornton Advisors LLC in the bidding process for the audit firm Grant Thornton Germany. In early 2024 New Mountain Capital had already invested in the US arm of Grant Thornton and subsequently integrated the sister companies in Ireland, the Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates. The integration of Grant Thornton in the United Arab Emirates was also legally supported by Taylor Wessing.

In the current bidding process for the German arm of Grant Thornton, the UK PE fund Cinven, which had already entered into a partnership with the UK member firm of Grant Thornton last autumn, ultimately prevailed.

Legal advisor Grant Thornton Advisors LLC
Taylor Wessing Germany: Dr Christian Traichel (lead, Corporate/M&A, Munich), Dr Rebekka Krause (Munich), Ralf Tietz, LL.M. (Berlin) and Dr Christian Dietz (Munich), all Corporate/M&A; Dr Marco Hartmann-Rüppel (Brussels) and Lara Nonnenmühlen (Hamburg), both Antitrust Law; Juliane Dost, LL.M. and Katharina Häberle (both Regulatory, Düsseldorf); Dr Klara Pototzky (Munich), Sophie Burmeister (Frankfurt) and Annika Rahn (Munich), all Employment, Pensions & Mobility; Sebastian Rünz, LL.M. (Compliance, Düsseldorf); Judith Schüler, LL.M. (Real Estate Law, Munich); Leonard Raphael, LL.M. (Insurance Supervisory Law, Düsseldorf), Felix Kokorsch (Financing, Frankfurt); Phillip Heske (Data Protection Law/IP/IT, Munich)