Energy

• Advised Energy Equation Partners and Stonepeak on the acquisition of a majority interest in one of Germany’s largest fuel retailers, JET Tankstellen Deutschland GmbH (“JET”) from Phillips 66, from a global energy company. Scope included EU FSR, EU merger control and German/Austrian foreign investment approvals, coordinated within an accelerated timeline to secure swift closing.
• Represented a multinational electricity supplier in connection with the establishment of a joint venture to be active in the e-vehicles charging sector. The case involved merger control filings before the EC and before 13 worldwide national competition authorities, including a Phase 2 investigation before the Italian competition authority to which the case was referred under Article 9 EU Merger Regulation (EUMR).
• Represented a multi-utility company in the merger control filing of its acquisition of the business unit of an incumbent company active in the sale of natural gas to final customers in Italy.
• Advised a multi-utility company in the merger control aspects of the acquisition of a controlling shareholding in two companies active in the production and sale of power, biogas and heat from renewable sources and the establishment of two newly created companies for biogas production.

Financial Services

• Representing an ad hoc group of Class A creditors holding over £13 billion in the recapitalisation of Thames Water, the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. 
• Advised a major global investment bank on EU FSR, merger control and foreign investment aspects of a $35.9bn consumer goods acquisition. Scope included EU FSR, multijurisdictional approvals and compliance, including pre-notification strategy, data collection on FFCs and remedy risk assessment, to secure deal certainty and timing.
• Advising a multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation on ongoing EU FSR compliance as well as on the financial restructuring of one of the UK’s leading digital retailers, involving EU FSR data gathering and filing strategies, strategic competition and foreign investment aspects.
• Advised a financial technology (“fintech”) bank on the merger control aspects of its acquisition of joint control over a competing bank to operate in the open banking sector.
• Represented an investment fund in its acquisition of an information technology company on the merger control aspects and in the foreign direct investment filing before the Italian government.

Fast-moving Consumer Goods

• Advised an ad hoc group of lenders to Marelli, a Japan-based multinational automotive supplier, involving Chapter 11 proceedings, complex cross-border regulatory approvals and $4.9 billion in liabilities.
• Represented a multinational retail groups in the Phase 2 merger investigation before the Italian Competition Authority of its EUR 15 billion sale of its overall Italian retail stores to a direct competitor.

Industrial

• Represented a leading Italian private security company in the merger control aspects of its acquisition of one of its closest competitors in the market.
• Represented a European producer of coloured polyester threads and yarns in the sale of its share capital to a leading competitor. The transaction involved multijurisdictional merger filings in Germany, Austria and Bulgaria.

Telecom

• Advised a state-owned company in connection with the merger control aspects of the structuring of a potential joint venture with an Italian telecommunication (“telecom”) company to co-manage the single national broadband network in Italy.

List may include matters worked on prior to joining Akin.