About Malte
Malte is a partner at LARK. Before joining LARK, he was counsel at GLNS and spent several years in the Munich office of a US law firm. He completed his legal training in Germany, the United States of America, Spain and Argentina.
Together with Nadja Crombach, Malte also manages the LARK pro bono section.
Malte has many years of wide-ranged experience in advising national and international clients with a focus on public M&A, stock corporation and capital markets law, transformation law and corporate law.
Areas of expertise
Stock corporation and capital markets law & disputes
Public M&A
Transformation law
Corporate law, compliance and corporate litigation
Recent Representative Matters
Public M&A
- MorphoSys AG in connection with the voluntary public takeover offer by Novartis
- EQS Group AG on the public takeover offer by Thoma Bravo and on the subsequent delisting
- Marley Spoon SE in connection with the business combination with 468 SPAC II
- zooplus AG in connection with the voluntary public takeover offer by EQT and Hellman & Friedman and the subsequent delisting
- Carlyle in connection with the voluntary public takeover offer for Osram
IPOs
- Affinitas in connection with the cross-border merger with Spark Networks and going public at the NYSE
- PharmaSGP Holding SE in connection with the IPO
- Dermapharm in connection with the IPO of Dermapharm Holding SE
- Sixt SE in connection with the IPO of Sixt Leasing AG
Capital market transactions
- Nagarro SE on share buybacks
- Marley Spoon AG in connection with a capital increase against cash contributions with subscription rights
- clearvise AG in connection with a capital increase against cash contributions with the exclusion of subscription rights
- ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE in connection with a capital increase through a private placement with international institutional investors
- SHW AG on a capital increase through a private placement with international institutional investors
Structural measures under stock corporation and transformation law
- Marley Spoon AG on the change of legal form to an SE
- InTiCa Systems AG on the change of legal form to an SE
- zooplus AG on the change of legal form to an SE
- Sixt Leasing AG on the change of legal form to an SE
- ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG on the change of legal form into an SE
- KWS SAAT AG on the change of legal form to an SE
- Amerigon in connection with the squeeze-out of the minority shareholders of the listed W.E.T. Automotive Systems AG
Corporate law / M&A
- IVP in connection with the investment in DeepL
- AUDI on corporate law matters
Ongoing advice on stock corporation and capital markets law for numerous listed companies
Publications & Speeches
Nikoleyczik/Krohn, AG 2022, 673: Public auction as a mechanism for resolving bidder disputes in public takeovers
Graßl/Krohn, DB 2023, 1142: More attractive European capital markets: EU Commission proposal to amend the Market Abuse Regulation
Speaker for corporate law at C.H. Beck
Life beyond Lark
Malte prefers to spend his time on airplanes. But for the sake of the environment, he decided to stay on the ground most of the time. There he can be found cooking or doing sports. He also likes to use music and languages to motivate his plants to grow.