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Stefan Sieling
Partner

Stefan Sieling

Rechtsanwalt

Berlin, Germany
Languages
  • German
  • English
Social media

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.

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

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

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
Practice Areas
Corporate / M&A Mergers & Acquisitions Restructuring Structuring under corporate law International Group Structures
sectors
Private Equity & Venture Capital

Insights by Stefan

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Press releases Germany

Business Development and Sustainability categories: CMS picks up two awards at PMN Management Awards 2021

24 Sep 2021 3 min read
Deals Germany

CMS advises Evago Group shareholders on investment by KKA Partners

14 Oct 2019 2 min read
Press releases Germany

CMS expands legal tech strategy by deploying Kira machine learning software

24 Jan 2017 3 min read
Press releases Germany

CMS advises Sparkassen on introduction of paydirekt

12 May 2016 3 min read
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