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Hogan Lovells advises consortium led by WTE Wassertechnik on major wastewater treatment plant project Umm Al-Hayman in Kuwait
24 January 2020
Dr. Heiko Gemmel
Office Managing PartnerDusseldorf
Email heiko.gemmel@hoganlovells.com
Phone +49 211 13 68 485
LanguagesEnglish, German
Practice groupCorporate
Heiko Gemmel is recommended as "very efficient".
Legal 500 EMEA, 2013
Heiko Gemmel focuses on all tax aspects of financing structures, portfolio transactions, equity and debt capital market transactions, M&A and real estate transactions as well as group restructurings, in particular in a cross-border context. He also advises on all tax aspects of the structuring of alternative investment funds and on associated regulatory issues.
He regularly advises clients from the financial industry sector (banks, winding-up agencies, insurance companies and funds) and has a broad experience in leading and coordinating an international tax team on large and complex cross-border transactions.
Heiko joined the firm in 2003 and is qualified as a lawyer and as a certified tax advisor (Steuerberater). He was appointed as the Office Managing Partner of the firm's Dusseldorf office on January 1, 2020.
Awards and recognitions
2018-2019
Tax
Legal 500 EMEA
2010 - 2015
Recommended lawyer for tax law
JUVE handbook
2013
Heiko Gemmel is recommended as "very efficient".
Legal 500 EMEA
Education and admissions
Education
University of Münster
Representative experience
Advising FMS Wertmanagement (FMS-WM) on the acquisition of DEPFA BANK plc and its subsidiaries from Hypo Real Estate Holding AG (HRE).
Advising Henderson Global Investors on the tax structuring and the establishment of a joint venture between Henderson Global Investors and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA–CREF).
Advising T-Mobile on a complex factoring transaction, in which pools of wireless phone bill receivables were sold to Helaba and BTMU.
Advising Erste Abwicklungsanstalt on the acquisition of risk assets and non-strategic business units of WestLB in the amount of approx. €71bn.
Advising FMS Wertmanagement on the acquisition of a portfolio consisting of risk assets and non-strategic business units and on the organisational set-up of FMS-WM.
Latest thinking and events
Announcements
Prof. Dr. Thomas Dünchheim new head of the Continental European Global Regulatory practice, Dr. Heiko Gemmel new Office Managing Partner in Düsseldorf
10 January 2020
Press Releases
Hogan Lovells advises Continental on sale of 50 percent stake in SAS
24 October 2019
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Hogan Lovells advises Opel Vauxhall Finance and BNP Paribas on Opel Bank's first public STS and SRT securitisation
26 September 2019
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Hogan Lovells advises Covestro on the sale of its European polycarbonate sheet business to Serafin group
18 September 2019
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Hogan Lovells advises Deutsche Wohnen SE in relation to its second scrip dividend
23 July 2019
