Allen & Overy LLP advises the Abu Dhabi MAR Group on the acquisition of the operations of the Lindenau shipyard.
The Kiel-based company has been under insolvency administration since December 2008 and has been significantly restructured by administrator Jan H. Wilhelm.  The transaction has completed.

Abu Dhabi MAR acquires the overall business operations and takes over all staff.  In addition, Abu Dhabi MAR acquires real property from the German Federal Agency for Property Matters, BIMA, which had been used by Lindenau on the basis of hereditary building rights.

The Allen & Overy team was led by partner Dr. Hartmut Krause and included senior associate Alexander Wüpper, (all corporate/M&A, Frankfurt), senior associate Dr. Christian Hilmes (corporate/M&A and real estate, Hamburg), associate Mario Schollmeyer (corporate/M&A, Frankfurt), partners Dr. Asmus Mihm and Dr. Heike Weber, senior associate Katrin Gänsler and associate Andreas Fertig (all tax, Frankfurt), partner Jürgen Schindler and associate Andrea Pomana (anti trust, Hamburg/Brussels), counsel Dr. Bettina Enderle and associate Dr. Thorsten Thaysen (both public law, Frankfurt), partner Thomas Ubber and associate Nicole Bleis (both E&B general, Frankfurt), associate Sören Seidel (E&B general, Hamburg) and paralegal Andrea Ehm (real estate, Hamburg).

BIMA inhouse: Raymund Karg, Michael Odenthal

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