About Philipp
Philipp is a counsel at 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 was senior associate in the banking & finance practice at GLNS after several years in the banking & finance practice groups of Kirkland & Ellis and Latham & Watkins in Munich.
He completed his legal training in Germany at the University of Konstanz and at the higher regional court of Munich with a stage in Chicago.
Philipp 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 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-up and growth companies and advises in sync with LARK’s venture capital practice. He also supports clients with financial restructurings.
“A large number of Philipp’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
Banking/Finance, Financial Restructuring
Corporate Banking
Leveraged Finance
Venture Debt
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
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
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
- 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
What others say
Life beyond Lark
Beyond his work at LARK Philipp goes to the mountains and is interested in all topics around dining and travelling.