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Dr. Katrin Stieß

Lawyer │ Partner

Munich

katrin.stiess@luther-lawfirm.com

Areas of practice

Corporate/M&A

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Start-ups & Venture Capital

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Mobility & Logistics

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Information Tech & Telecommunications

Katrin Stieß has more than two decades of experience in advising on national and international M&A, private equity and growth capital transactions as well as domestic and cross-border corporate reorganizations, joint ventures, carve-outs, participations and other general corporate matters.

Her clients mainly include German and international technology companies as well as banks, financial investors and asset managers. Katrin Stieß has advised on numerous M&A projects (small-, mid- and large-cap) on the buy- and sell-side, also in the context of bidding processes.

She regularly advises on banking M&A transactions as well as on transactions in connection with the digital transformation of business models.

Vita

Katrin Stieß studied law at the Universities of Trier, Geneva, Cologne and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

She received her doctorate from the University of Cologne, worked as a student assistant at the law faculty there (Institute for Public Law and Administrative Law, Prof. Dr Dr h.c. mult. Klaus Stern) and during her legal clerkship at a US law firm in New York (USA). Katrin Stieß was admitted to the German Bar in 2005 and worked for the Cologne office of Linklaters, Oppenhoff & Rädler from 2000 to 2002 as a research assistant and from 2005 to 2006 as a lawyer. In 2007, she moved to the Munich office of Norton Rose Fulbright, where she was made partner in 2016 and headed the Technology Industry Business Group for EMEA. Katrin Stieß joined Luther in 2025.

She regularly publishes articles and participates in webinars and panels on M&A transactions in the financial services sector as well as on technology-driven projects.

Honors and distinctions

JUVE Guide 2023/2024: Listed under "Frequently Recommended" in "M&A", "Corporate" and "Private Equity" ("thorough, well-organized, pragmatic; works with a lean team").
The Legal 500 Germany 2023: Recognized as a leading next generation-name for "Large Cap M&A, Germany" (first recognized in 2021)
WirtschaftsWoche 2019: Recommendation in "Corporate Law"

Clients

HSBC - Advice on the sale of the fund administration business in Germany (INKA) to BlackFin as part of a bidding process
HSBC - Advice on the sale of the custody and depositary bank business in Germany to BNP Paribas as part of a bidding process
HSBC - Advice on the sale of its private client business in Germany to BNP Paribas as part of a bidding process
ABN Amro - Advice in connection with the acquisition of the German private bank Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe
Crédit Mutuel Group - Advice on the acquisition of the German branch of Banque Européenne du Crédit Mutuel (BECM Deutschland) by Targobank by way of a cross-border carve-out
Auditing Association of German Banks - Advice on the privatisation of the former HSH Nordbank (now Hamburg Commercial Bank)
Nidec - Advice on the planned acquisition of the drive division Innomotics from Siemens in the course of a bidding process
Vodafone - Advice on the acquisition of the IoT service provider grandcentrix
Consortium of Heliot Group and Cube Infrastructure - Advice on the acquisition of IoT service provider Sigfox Germany
Accenture - Advice on various multinational acquisitions of B2B concept service providers
BMW - Advice on a global joint venture with Daimler to bundle the mobility service offerings of the two premium manufacturers
One of the largest aviation services companies - Advice on a joint venture with a German aviation services company

Memberships

German-American Lawyers' Association

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