Awards and Rankings
Best Lawyers™ Germany 2020: 86 Recognized Lawyers, five of them Lawyers of the Year
28 June 2019
Dr. Hanns Jörg Herwig
Partner/NotaryFrankfurt
Email joerg.herwig@hoganlovells.com
Phone +49 69 962 36 658
LanguagesEnglish, German
Practice groupCorporate
Joerg Herwig has a perennial experience in advising on private equity and M&A, in particular management incentive programs, shareholders' agreements and warranty and indemnity insurances.
Joerg has accompanied many international and national corporate and sponsor clients in their transactions, general corporate matters and restructurings. He regularly gives presentations on such topics. He is also a notary public in Frankfurt. Joerg is active in the German recruiting activities of Hogan Lovells.
Joerg studied law at the Universities of Passau and Nottingham and holds a Master of European Law from the University of Nottingham and a Dr. iur. from the University of Passau. Joerg worked in New York for an international law firm and was seconded to an in-house legal department of a listed real estate stock corporation in Berlin.
Awards and recognitions
2019
Corporate and M&A: Corporate
Legal 500 EMEA
2019
Corporate and M&A: M&A: Large deals (€500m+)
Legal 500 EMEA
2019
Industry Focus: Healthcare and Life Sciences
Legal 500 EMEA
2019
Private Equity: Transactions
Legal 500 EMEA
Education and admissions
Education
Dr. iur., University of Passau, 2005
Second State Exam in Law, Bavaria, 2002
LL.M., University of Nottingham, 2000
First State Exam in Law, University of Passau, 1999
Memberships
German Association for Corporate Law (VGR)
Representative experience
Advising Apax Partners on various divestitures, acquisitions and participations.*
Advising Bregal Capital on the acquisition of proALPHA, a squeeze-out process (transformation law); advising proALPHA on the acquisition of ALPHA Business Solutions AG.*
Advising Dorea group on several (potential) add-on acquisitions.
Advising Doughty Hanson and Vue Entertainment on the acquisition and public takeover of CinemaxX AG, subsequent squeeze-out and appraisal proceedings.*
Advising Hillenbrand, Inc. on its acquisition of Coperion group.*
Advising Leopard group and Fattal Hotels on the sale of 18 hotels to Pandox.
Advising Odewald & Compagnie on the acquisition of Oberberg group, the sale of IWK group and the sale of Oystar group.*
Advising Quadriga Capital on the acquisition of LR Health & Beauty Systems together with Bregal Capital*; advising on the acquisition of the Agitalis nursing home group.
Advising Quadriga Capital on the acquisition of Kaiserin-Auguste-Victoria hospital.
Advising RAIN CTP Inc. on its acquisition of RÜTGERS N.V.
Advising TA Associates on divestitures, acquisitions and/or participations.
Advising corporates, inter alia, Outokumpu, Continental and Samsung Electronics, in each case on divestitures, acquisitions and/or participations.
Advising Private Equity funds on various kinds of financial restructurings of certain of their respective portfolio companies.
Advising a German corporate on its financial restructuring pursuant to an English Scheme of Arrangement.
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Latest thinking and events
Press Releases
Hogan Lovells advises Woodward Inc. on the acquisition of L' Orange
10 April 2018
Blog Post
Lending Cap to be imposed by ECB – Will the new ECB guidance adversely affect leveraged transactions?
11 May 2017
Blog Post
Warranty and Indemnity Insurance - Part II
07 November 2016
Blog Post
Warranty and Indemnity Insurance - Part 1
24 October 2016
