Dr. Christian Cascante, LL.M.
Gleiss Lutz
T +49 711 8997-151
christian.cascante@gleisslutz.com

Christian Cascante is head of the corporate/M&A group at Gleiss Lutz. His practice focuses on M&A, cor-porate and restructuring work and in particular on public takeovers, cross-border acquisitions and private equity.

Over the years, he has advised German and foreign corporations on many M&A transactions, inter alia, in more than 40 planned or executed public takeovers, for example, on Blackstone’s takeover of Celanese, the largest takeover in Germany in 2004, or Merck on their €14.6 billion unsolicited bid for Schering, Ger-many’s largest offer announced in 2006, Robert Bosch on the public takeover of aleo solar in 2009, or the tender offer of the State of Baden-Württemberg to all shareholders of EnBW following the acquisition of the shares held by EDF in EnBW, the largest M&A transaction in Germany in 2010. Recent M&A work in-cludes advising Blackstone on the German aspects of the US$26 billion acquisition of the Hilton Group, Credit Suisse in connection with its advice to Qatar Holding on the takeover of Porsche’s VW options, and the sale of Infineon’s wireless business to Intel for US$1.4 billion.

He is singled out as one of the top 20 rainmakers in M&A by the German legal directory JUVE and is regu-larly recommended for M&A and private equity in Chambers, IFLR 1000, The International Who’s Who of Merger & Acquisition Lawyers, Guide to the World’s Leading M&A Lawyers/Private Equity Lawyers and PLC Cross-border Handbook M&A.

He is a native speaker of both German and Spanish, is fluent in English and speaks French.