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Stefan Sieling

Partner
Rechtsanwalt

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Stefan Sieling

Partner
Rechtsanwalt

Contact
CMS Hasche Sigle
Lennéstraße 7
10785 Berlin
Germany
Languages German, English

Stefan Sieling has extensive know-how of management and employee profit-sharing schemes, stock option programmes and similar share schemes and incentives. He also advises his clients on business acquisitions as well as share deals, always taking strategic considerations into account. Stefan has special expertise in the German public-sector banking industry and has in recent years advised state-owned regional banks and the German Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe on numerous M&A transactions.

He joined CMS in 1995. In 1997, he was seconded to Tissel & Co Advokatfirma AB in Stockholm. He became a partner in 2000. Stefan is also responsible for the CMS Knowledge Management and Legal Tech Teams.

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Relevant experience

  • Advising voestalpine AG on various transactions
  • Advising Landesbank Baden-Württemberg on numerous transactions
  • Advising Sparkassen Finanzgruppe on setting up a joint venture for the investment in the paydirekt payment system
  • Advising Holtzbrinck Publishing Group on numerous transactions, most recently on the global merger of Macmillan Science and Education (inter alia "Nature") with the Springer Science + Business Media
  • Advising an international management team in the Brenntag AG Group on introducing, administering and implementing an equity-based management participation programme until exit
  • Advising the Kärcher company group on introducing a management participation programme for key employees in a subsidiary
  • Advising an international management team of a global foodstuff supplier on introducing an equity-based participation programme
  • Advising an international management team of a worldwide leading medical technology company on introducing a management participation programme in connection with the entry of a private equity investor
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Publications

  • Amerikas Alternative zu Aktienoptionen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) 2003
  • The changing face of global stock plans, Derivatives, Heft 10, Derivatives 2003, p. 9 f
  • Braucht jedes Unternehmen eine Corporate Governance?, Der Syndikus, Syndikus 2003, p. 9 ff
  • International Employee Equity Plans, Kluwer Law International, World Law Group 2003, p. 207 ff
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Education

  • 1994: Second state examination in law
  • 1992: First state examination in law
  • Postgraduate business administration studies in Bonn
  • Law studies in Marburg and Cologne
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Expertise

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24/09/2021
Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment and Sus­tain­ab­il­ity cat­egor­ies: CMS picks up two awards...
Ber­lin – CMS Ger­many took two first places at the 13th PMN Man­age­ment Awards. The in­ter­na­tion­al com­mer­cial law firm re­ceived awards in the Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment and Sus­tain­ab­il­ity cat­egor­ies. The Pro­fes­sion­al...
Press releases
14/10/2019
CMS ad­vises Evago Group share­hold­ers on in­vest­ment by KKA Part­ners
Stut­tgart – Evago Hold­ing GmbH, one of the world’s lead­ing com­pan­ies in the field of tem­por­ary in­fra­struc­ture, has gained Ber­lin-based in­vestor KKA Part­ners as a stra­tegic part­ner.A CMS team headed...
Deals
24/01/2017
CMS ex­pands leg­al tech strategy by de­ploy­ing Kira ma­chine learn­ing soft­ware
Ber­lin – Com­mer­cial law firm CMS has signed an agree­ment with Ca­na­dian com­pany Kira Sys­tems for the use of its Kira ma­chine learn­ing soft­ware. The soft­ware uses ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence to identi­fy...
Press releases
12/05/2016
CMS ad­vises Spar­kassen on in­tro­duc­tion of pay­direkt
Stut­tgart – CMS Hasche Sigle has ad­vised the Spar­kassen-Fin­an­z­gruppe (Ger­man Sav­ings Banks Fin­ance Group) on the in­tro­duc­tion of the pay­direkt on­line pay­ment meth­od. The firm was in­struc­ted by Deutscher...
Press releases
07/05/2015
CMS ad­vises Holtzbrinck on com­ple­tion of the mer­ger of ma­jor­ity of Mac­mil­lan...
Stut­tgart – CMS, led by Dr Thomas Meyding, has com­pre­hens­ively ad­vised Holtzbrinck Pub­lish­ing Group (Holtzbrinck) in con­nec­tion with the com­ple­tion of the mer­ger of Spring­er Sci­ence+Busi­ness Me­dia (owned...
Press releases
15/01/2015
CMS ad­vises Holtzbrinck on mer­ger of ma­jor­ity of Mac­mil­lan Sci­ence and...
Stut­tgart – Today Holtzbrinck Pub­lish­ing Group (Holtzbrinck) an­nounced that it and BC Part­ners (BCP) have reached an agree­ment to merge Spring­er Sci­ence+Busi­ness Me­dia (owned by funds ad­vised by BCP)...
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20/06/2011
CMS Hasche Sigle ad­vises Schuler AG on biggest cap­it­al in­crease in the...
Stut­tgart – Schuler AG has com­pleted the biggest cap­it­al in­crease in its more than 170-year his­tory. The Göp­pin­gen-based tech­no­lo­gic­al and glob­al mar­ket lead­er in metal­form­ing in­creased its cap­it­al...
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