About Nadja
Nadja is a Senior Associate at LARK. She particularly advises in the fields of stock corporation and capital markets law, public M&A and corporate law. Prior to joining LARK, she worked for several years in a Munich-based corporate law firm.
Together with Malte Krohn, Nadja is responsible for the pro bono team of LARK.
Nadja specializes in providing comprehensive advice to management and supervisory board on all issues relating to capital markets and stock corporation law, in particular on public takeovers, capital measures and capital markets compliance, executive compensation, national and cross-border structural measures as well as on IPOs.
Areas of expertise
M&A (Public & Private)
Public Companies
Corporate Advisory
Executive Compensation
Recent Representative Matters
Public M&A (Public Takeovers)
- ABOUT YOU in connection with the voluntary public takeover offer by Zalando
- MorphoSys AG in connection with the voluntary public takeover offer by Novartis and the subsequent delisting
- EQS Group AG on the public takeover offer by Thoma Bravo and the subsequent delisting
- zooplus on the voluntary public takeover offer by EQT and Hellman & Friedman and the subsequent delisting
Private M&A
- AUDI on joint venture with BIMM
- AUDI on IT joint venture with Lufthansa Industry Solutions
- AUDI on joint venture with Capgemini SE
- Mynaric AG on the formation of the joint venture UNIO Enterprise
- Audi Business Innovation GmbH on the investment of Baloise Gruppe and Startup Family Office in MOBIKO
- Minority shareholder on the re-investment in Ingo Maurer GmbH acquired by Foscarini
Stock Corporation and Capital Markets Law
- Staffbase GmbH on the change of legal form into an SE
- MorphoSys AG on the merger squeeze-out of the minority shareholders
- EQS Group AG on the squeeze-out of the minority shareholders as well as on the change of legal form into a GmbH
- A number of listed companies, including MorphoSys AG, Mynaric AG and Zalando SE, on corporate and capital markets law matters
- zooplus AG on the change of legal form into an SE
- CompuGroup Medical SE on the change of legal form into a SE & Co. KGaA
Executive Compensation and Employee Participation Plans
Comprehensive advice of a number of listed and non-listed companies on executive compensation, including, e.g., MorphoSys AG, Zalando SE, Mynaric AG and zooplus SE and employee participation plans, including
- design and implementation of remuneration systems (“say on pay”) including the development of executive compensation structures together with major compensation consultants
- design and implementation of a wide variety of national and group-wide equity-based incentive plans
- structuring and negotiation of executive service agreements and termination agreements including clawback or severance provisions
- support with remuneration-related disclosure obligations under German and foreign, particularly US law
- coordination with partner law firms regarding alignment of the executive compensation structure with international and particularly US law requirements (e.g., compliance with foreign stock exchange requirements, particularly with SEC rules) and foreign market practice
- ongoing advice and support of Supervisory Board, compensation committees, HR and finance/accounting teams on all compensation-related topics
- compensation-related topics in transactions, e.g., national and cross-border structuring measures, M&A transactions, changes of the legal form, public takeover and IPOs
Publications & Speeches
Praktische Probleme bei Ausgestaltung, vertraglicher Umsetzung und nachlaufender Überprüfung der Maximalvergütung für Vorstandsmitglieder, AG 2/2021 (together with Tobias Nikoleyczik)
Life beyond Lark
Nadja uses the fact that as a lawyer she can work from anywhere to pursue her second great passion – travelling – as often as possible, thereby always accompanied by her camera. In Munich, she plays the piano, enjoys her morning runs and yoga sessions by the Isar river and is studying for her wine qualification.