About Anselm
Anselm is a founding partner of LARK. He has a broad practice as a banking & finance lawyer and assists clients with debt finance transactions across the entire credit spectrum.
Prior to joining LARK, he established and led the debt finance practice of GLNS after several years in the banking & finance practice group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Munich, Frankfurt and New York. He also has first-hand knowledge of the internal processes of legal and corporate development departments of larger corporate groups, having worked briefly as in-house counsel in the banking & finance legal department of Siemens AG, Munich and as secondee to the corporate M&A department of Deutsche Bank AG, New York.
He completed his legal training in Germany at the University of Konstanz and the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg (Dr. jur.) as well as in England at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (LL.M. in Corporate Law).
Anselm has a particular focus on leveraged finance and regularly advises on acquisition financings and other sponsor-driven financings in various structures, often as part of LARK’s private equity practice. Another core area of his practice is advising on corporate financings in the investment grade and cross-over credit spectrum. He advises on bilateral and syndicated credit financings, private placements such as Schuldschein loans and other complex structured financings as well as intra-group financings such as the set-up and implementation of cash pooling and clearing systems. He is also experienced in venture debt financings for start-ups and growth companies and advises in sync with LARK’s venture capital practice. He also supports clients with financial restructurings.
A large number of Anselm’s mandates have an international connection. Together with foreign counsel in the relevant jurisdictions, he advises German and foreign clients on cross-border financing transactions.
Areas of expertise
Corporate Banking
Leveraged Finance
Venture Debt
Financial Restructuring
Recent Representative Matters
Corporate Banking
- teccle group on debut syndicated credit financing by UniCredit Bank AG, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S.A. and Frankfurter Sparkasse for refinancing purposes and further expansion of the group pursuant to its buy-and-build strategy
- zooplus (formerly MDAX) on EUR 120,000,000 debut syndicated revolving credit financing arranged by UniCredit Bank AG and Landesbank Baden-Württemberg as well as its amendment and restatement following the successful public takeover by private equity investors Hellman & Friedman and EQT
- Ewald Dörken AG on strategic financing for the acquisition of Wischemann Group
- P&P Group on first ESG-linked Schuldschein loan transaction
- MorphoSys (SDAX and TecDAX) on group-internal financing as well as other publicly listed and non-listed corporate groups on set-up and implementation of cash pooling and clearing systems
Leveraged Finance
- FSN Capital on unitranche financing provided by Pemberton for acquisition of bakery chain Bäcker Görtz
- Afinum on structured debt financings for platform investments in technology specialist Christian Koenen Group and high-end-cloud, data center and software-solutions provider synaforce, including add-on financings
- VALLEY IT GROUP (formerly LMP IT Holding) on recapitalisation and buy-and-build financing by way of unitranche financing provided by Apera Asset Management
- Egeria Capital Management on syndicated credit financing provided by Landbank Baden-Württemberg, Bayerische Landesbank and Oldenburgische Landesbank for acquisition of premium spa and sauna manufacturer Klafs Group
- FSN Capital on super senior/senior refinancing of logistics IT group ecovium by Partners Group and Oldenburgische Landesbank in connection with the add-on acquisition of the Greek Mantis Group as well as on unitranche financing provided by Cordet Capital for initial acquisition of ecovium (formerly MHP Solution Group)
Venture Debt
- Employee communications cloud Staffbase on EUR 50,000,000 revolving credit facility by J.P. Morgan and KfW
- Digital health company Ada Health on EUR 30,000,000 growth debt financing by IPF Partners
- Meal kit provider Marley Spoon on USD 65,000,000 growth debt financing by Runway Growth Credit Fund as well as venture debt financings by Western Technology Investment (WTI) and Global Growth Capital
- Consumer credit comparison platform smava on financing of acquisition of FINANZCHECK by way of venture debt financing provided by Kreos Capital and Proventus Capital Partners
- E-commerce aggregator Razor Group on venture debt financing by Claret Capital
What others say
Publications & Speeches
Origination and Distribution of Debt: Risks and Regulatory Solutions, EJRR 2011, 340 ff.
The proposals for the reform of English personal property security law. A guide for European harmonisation? Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Studies on Comparative and International Private Law, Vol. 233, Tübingen 2010 (Diss. Jur. Univ. Würzburg)
The requirement to register security interests under English corporate law – A risk for lenders of a pseudo-foreign company in the form of an English limited liability company, RIW 2007, 348 ff.
Life beyond Lark
Anselm lives the LARK lifestyle. When he is not on the phone or working on a document, he is skiing or hiking in the mountains, surfing a wave from Supertubos in Portugal to the Mexican pipeline in Puerto Escondito or you can find him in a bar in one of the world’s metropolises.