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Philipp Tamussino

Senior Counsel

Frankfurt +49 69 768063 392

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  • About

    Philipp Tamussino is a U.S. corporate senior counsel based in Frankfurt. His practice focuses on cross-border corporate and finance transactions. Previously resident in our New York office, he joined the Frankfurt team when the office opened in 2018.

    Philipp represents clients in mergers and acquisitions, financings, private equity transactions, corporate governance matters, joint ventures and venture capital investments, almost always in an international setting. He also has advised asset managers and investors in a variety of structured finance, alternative investment and financial derivatives transactions.

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    • Advising Merck & Co., Inc. on its global reorganisation in connection with the spin-off of its women’s health, trusted legacy brands and biosimilars businesses.
    • Advised Deutsche Börse AG in connection with its acquisition of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS).
    • Represented Resource America in its acquisition of ACA's U.S. CLO management business, in the acquisition of Churchill Pacific Asset Management, in the auction sale of its European loan management operation, in its credit management joint venture with CVC Capital Partners and in the formation of its Pelium Capital Partners Fund.
    • Advised Croma-Pharma in connection with its international development and distribution joint venture with Hugel, Inc.
    • Represented Johnson & Johnson in its acquisition of Lumend, Inc., in its buyout of Merck’s interests in their European OTC drug joint venture, and in its purchase of the Viactiv® product line from Bristol-Myers Squibb.
    • Represented the Segal Group in its acquisitions of Benz Communications, RogersCasey, Moroni Fantin, Waters Consulting, Irwin Tepper Associates and Sibson Consulting.

    • Advised SK Holdings on debt and equity financing in connection with its acquisition of a minority interest in Eureka Midstream Holdings.
    • Represented Public Pension Capital in its investment in KVK Technologies and strategic partnership with Kramer Van Kirk Credit Strategies.
    • Represented Ascom Holding AG in its acquisition of GE Healthcare's nurse call medical device business.
    • Advised Mederi AG in its sale to BelHealth Investment Partners.
    • Represented ClaimTrust in its sale to Craneware plc.
    • Represented NYFIX in a private equity investment by Warburg Pincus.
    • Advised European corporate clients in a number of strategic U.S. venture capital investments.
    • Represented asset managers in the launch of numerous cash and synthetic CDO and CLO transactions.
    • Advised U.S. and international investors in a variety of bespoke CDO, variable rate note, equity-linked note, credit-linked note and similar transactions.

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  • Credentials
    Education
    • New York University School of Law, LL.M., 1990
    • Karl-Franzens Universität, Dr. jur., 1989
    • Karl-Franzens Universität, Mag. jur., 1987
    Bar Admissions
    • New York
    Languages
    • English
    • German
    • French
    Pro Bono
    • Numerous matters for clients including Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG), The Nature Conservancy and Up2Us Sports.
    Previous Experience
    • Resident in Covington’s Brussels (1991-1994 and 1998-2001) and New York (2001-2018) office.

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