The global law firm Jones Day is pleased to announce that Dr. Karsten Müller-Eising will arrive in the Frankfurt Officein the near future as a partner in the Capital Markets Practice. He comes to the Firm from Hogan Lovells and will be joined by Thomas Stoll and Daniela Schmitt. Together, they will enhance a team of more than 120 capital markets lawyers worldwide. The addition of these three lawyers marks another important step in the expansion of the Firm’s German practice, which has recently attracted attention with the opening of the Düsseldorf Office in February, and the addition of several lateral partners, as well as the promotion of seven lawyers to the partnership in Frankfurt and Munich at the beginning of the year.
Dr. Müller-Eising has more than 20 years of experience, most recently as a partner in Hogan Lovells’ Frankfurt office, where he headed the Equity Capital Markets Practice. He has broad experience in primary and secondary offerings, IPOs, public takeovers, and refinancings. He represented Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA on its initial public offering of common stock. He advised the German Federal Ministry of Finance on the €18.2 billion recapitalization of Commerzbank AG and the investment bank M.M. Warburg & CO on the rights issue and debt equity swap of Conergy AG. He also was member of the team advising the German Financial Market Stabilization Fund (SoFFin) on the €11 billion capital raising of Commerzbank AG.
Dr. Müller-Eising is listed in JUVE, Chambers, and PLC Which lawyer? as a recommended lawyer for corporate law and equity capital markets. He has published numerous articles on capital markets, securities, and corporate law topics and regularly lectures at commercial law seminars.
Thomas Stoll joins Jones Day as European Counsel. Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Mr. Stoll was an in-house legal adviser at Deutsche Börse AG in the area of corporate governance. He has broad experience in public takeovers, corporate law, and capital markets. Daniela Schmitt worked as an associate in the Frankfurt office of Hogan Lovells and focuses in the areas of corporate and capital markets law.
Dr. Müller-Eising values the seamless cross-border cooperation and teamwork among Jones Day’s practices: “The Firm provides an excellent platform, which has continued to expand as seen by the recent arrivals in the corporate/M&A area in Germany. I am looking forward to my work there, in particular my collaboration with Capital Markets Practice colleagues in London, New York, and Hong Kong.”
“With the arrival of Dr. Karsten Müller-Eising and his team, we will be able to provide even more comprehensive advice in Germany to our German and international clients. While our Banking & Finance Practice, headed by Sabine Felix, focuses on debt financing, Dr. Müller-Eising and his team will assist clients with their equity financings through the capital markets,” said Jürgen Reemers, Partner-in-Charge of Jones Day’s Frankfurt Office. “The addition of Dr. Karsten Müller-Eising is another important step in the successful expansion of our German transactional practice,” said Ansgar Rempp, who heads the German transactions practice and is Partner-in-Charge of the Düsseldorf Office. “As we expected, the opening and quick expansion of our Düsseldorf Office has had a positive effect on the transactional practice in all our German offices.”
