Dr. Michael Bernhardt Partner MAIN OFFICE: Frankfurt Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Senckenberganlage 16 Frankfurt am Main D-60325, Germany T +49 69 79302 193 F +49 69 79302 222

Michael Bernhardt is a partner in the Corporate and Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Frankfurt.  Mr. Bernhardt specializes in national and international M&A transactions, capital market and securities law, joint ventures and restructuring, as well as private equity transactions.

Prior to joining Willkie, Mr. Bernhardt was a managing associate in the Frankfurt office of Linklaters. From 2001 to 2002 he was seconded to CSFB, Frankfurt.

• The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the sale of its residential property company LEG to Whitehall Funds
  
  
• PAI partners SAS on the acquisition of the roofing division of Lafarge SAS
  
  
• Fortress Investment Group on the acquisition of WoBa Group from the City of Dresden
  
  
• An investor on the auction sale of Baubecon
  
  
• Fortress Investment Group on the acquisition of NILEG Group from Norddeutsche Landesbank
  
  
• An investor on the auction sale of Viterra AG
  
  
• Terra Firma on the acquisition of Tank & Rast
  
  
• Sanofi-Aventis on its mandatory offer to shareholders of Hoechst AG
  
  
• ITT Industries Inc. on its public take-over of WEDECO AG Water Technology
  
  
• Deutsche BP AG on the integration of VEBA OEL and Aral into Deutsche BP-Group
  
  
• Royal Bank of Scotland on the acquisition of Santander’s credit card business
  
  
• BP and Aral Group on the sale of a substantial part of their petrol station portfolio
  
  
• Credit Suisse Group on internal restructurings