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Dr. Markus M. Pfaff

Partner
Rechtsanwalt | Head of Banking & Finance Group, CMS Germany

Markus M. Pfaff

Dr. Markus M. Pfaff

Partner
Rechtsanwalt | Head of Banking & Finance Group, CMS Germany

Contact
T +49 69 71701 434
F +49 69 71701 40642
CMS Hasche Sigle
Neue Mainzer Straße 2–4
60311 Frankfurt
Germany
Languages German, English

Markus Pfaff specialises in finance transactions and restructuring, with a focus on acquisition and corporate finance as well as real estate and asset finance (aircrafts). He also advises on non-performing loan transactions, either acting for German and international banks or leasing companies and investors. Leading industry publications regularly recommend Markus for his expert know-how and the goal-oriented advice he provides.

After six years with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Duesseldorf, Frankfurt and New York, Markus joined CMS in 2009 as a partner.

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Education


  • 2000 - 2001: Research assistant at the University of Heidelberg and PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. iur. Dres. h.c. Peter Hommelhoff at the university’s Institute of German and European Corporate and Business Law
  • 1998 - 2000: Trainee lawyer in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate
  • 1993 - 1998: Law studies at the Universities of Saarbruecken, Lausanne an Heidelberg
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05/02/2020
Feel­good Shop sold to BioneXX Hold­ing, an e-com­merce plat­form con­trolled...
The share­hold­ers in Feel­good Shop B.V., a lead­ing on­line shop for food sup­ple­ments in the Ger­man-speak­ing coun­tries, have sold all their shares to the Bionexx Group as part of a suc­ces­sion plan. The buy­er already holds GSE Ver­treib, na­tur­ity and FIT­NE in
Deal (News) Corporate / M&A
26 March 2020
CMS Ex­pert Guide to sta­bil­isa­tion and re­struc­tur­ing ini­ti­at­ive
Expert Guide Corporate / M&A
10/01/2020
CMS ad­vises Tele­fón­ica Deutsch­land on con­clu­sion of sus­tain­ab­il­ity-linked...
Tele­fón­ica Deutsch­land has be­come the first Ger­man tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions com­pany to agree a sus­tain­ab­il­ity-linked loan of EUR 750 mil­lion through its sub­si­di­ary Tele­fón­ica Ger­many GmbH & Co. OHG. One of the factors in de­term­in­ing the in­terest mar­gin is meeti
Deal (News) Sustainable Finance
23/12/2019
CMS ad­vises Aviva In­vestors for first time on real es­tate trans­ac­tion in...
A CMS team headed by lead part­ner Jo­hanna Hof­mann ad­vised Aviva In­vestors on all real es­tate, tax and com­pet­i­tion-re­lated as­pects as well as on the leg­al struc­tur­ing of the fin­an­cing. This is the first time that Aviva has re­lied on the ex­pert­ise of the Fr
Deal (News) Real Estate & Public
06/12/2019
CMS ad­vises capiton on Ger­many's first GP-led Single-As­set Sec­ond­ary Trans­ac­tion
A team of CMS law­yers headed by Part­ners Dr. Eva An­nett Grigoleit and Dr. Ig­or Sten­zel and Coun­sel Patrick Lühr were part of the group of in­ter­na­tion­al ad­visors man­dated by capiton for this highly com­plex private equity trans­ac­tion...
Deal (News) Corporate / M&A
04/12/2019
CMS ad­vises lis­ted real es­tate com­pany DIC As­set on ac­quis­i­tion of land­mark...
A CMS team headed by lead part­ner Hein­rich Schirmer ad­vised DIC As­set on all leg­al as­pects of the ac­quis­i­tion...
Deal (News) Real Estate & Public
24/09/2019
CMS ad­vises Halder on ac­quis­i­tion of Dru­mag Flu­id­tech­nik and EPH Elektronik
A CMS team headed by lead part­ner Dr Oliv­er Wolf­gramm ad­vised Halder on leg­al as­pects of the ac­quis­i­tion. The Frank­furt-based private equity and M&A team headed by Wolf­gramm has ad­vised Halder on a reg­u­lar basis for a num­ber of years...
Deal (News) Corporate / M&A
09/07/2019
CMS ad­vises Art-In­vest Real Es­tate on ac­quis­i­tion of Listhaus in Leipzig
Prop­erty in­vestor Art-In­vest Real Es­tate has ac­quired the Listhaus build­ing on Friedrich-List-Platz in Leipzig for one of its in­vest­ment funds. A CMS team headed by part­ner Dr Malte Bruhns and Phil­ipp Schönnen­beck ad­vised Art-In­vest Real Es­tate on leg­al a
Deal (News) Legal Tech
07/02/2019
CMS ad­vises Halder on sale of Wback Group
Frank­furt-based SME in­vestor Halder has sold Ger­many’s lead­ing bakery com­pany for soft rolls, the Wback Group, to US food man­u­fac­turer C.H. Guen­ther & Son LLC, which is ma­jor­ity-owned by US in­vest­ment com­pany Pritzker Private Cap­it­al Part­ners...
Deal (News) Banking & Finance
10/01/2019
CMS team sup­ports VR-LEAS­ING in the sale of BFL Leas­ing to BAWAG Group
A CMS team headed by lead part­ner Dr Oliv­er C. Wolf­gramm provided VR-LEAS­ING with com­pre­hens­ive leg­al ad­vice on all trans­ac­tion-re­lated is­sues...
Deal (News) Corporate / M&A
02/08/2018
CMS ad­vises Circle Me­dia Group on land­mark ac­quis­i­tion of lead­ing European...
A CMS team cov­er­ing six jur­is­dic­tions and eight of­fices has ad­vised Circle Me­dia Group B.V. on its ac­quis­i­tion of lead­ing print­ing group, CPI, to cre­ate the largest in­de­pend­ent European group in the de­liv­ery of print and me­dia cap­ab­il­ity.
Deal (News) Corporate / M&A
18/08/2017
CMS ad­vises Oak­tree on the takeover of Vitanas und PFLE­GEN
Funds ad­vised by the US Amer­ic­an in­vest­ment com­pany Oak­tree Cap­it­al Man­age­ment L.P. ("Oak­tree") have ac­quired a ma­jor­ity par­ti­cip­a­tion in the nurs­ing home op­er­at­or Vitanas Hold­ing GmbH und PFLE­GEN & WOHNEN HAM­BURG GmbH...
Press release Banking & Finance
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