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Peter Nussbaum is a partner in the Global Corporate Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. Before joining Milbank in 2004, he was co-head of the Global Private Equity Group of one of the largest international law firms. He is one of the three founding partners of Milbank's Munich office.
Peter Nussbaum specializes in mergers & acquisitions and equity capital markets. He is particularly experienced in working on private equity transactions.
His recent major transactions include the sale of Siteco by J.P. Morgan Partners to Barclays Private Equity, the sale of SULO by Apax and Blackstone to Veolia Environnement, the sale of Kl�ckner Pentaplast by Cinven and J.P. Morgan Partners to Blackstone, the LBO of Wessel Werke by DZ Equity Partner, the sale by Apax and Goldman Sachs PIA of their stakes in Kabel Deutschland to Providence, the LBO of Cleanaway Deutschland by SULO (then a portfolio company of Apax and Blackstone), the LBO of debis AirFinance by Cerberus, the LBO of LR International by Apax, the friendly takeover of Ixos Software by Open Text, the LBO of Siteco Holding by J.P. Morgan Partners, the friendly takeover of jobpilot by Adecco, the first PIPE transaction in Germany (General Atlantic Partners in Ixos) as well as the largest technology exits in Germany in 2003 (the sale of Suse Linux by Apax, AdAstra and e-millennium) and in 2005 (the sale of Ciao by Apax, Burda, Index and Wellington).
His equity capital markets experience includes the IPOs of Sauer, United Internet, ricardo.de, Netlife, Jobs&Adverts and AerCap as well as several share for share transactions ("paper deals") in inter alia, Tiscali, ADVA, United Internet, travel24.com and Greenfield Online.
Peter Nussbaum has studied law and economic geography at the University of Munich (Dr. iur.), European Community matters at C.I.F.E., Munich/Nice, and holds a post-graduate degree from New York University School of Law (M.C.J.). He was admitted to the New York bar in 1991 and to the German bar in 1993. Before coming to Munich in 2000, he had been practicing law in New York, Brussels, Moscow and Hamburg. He speaks German, English and French. | 