Dr. Jochen Hoerth
Local Partner, Frankfurt
Biography
Overview
Jochen (Josh) Hoerth is a local partner in the Corporate/M&A practice group in the Firm's Frankfurt office.
He has more than ten years' relevant deal experience, advising both, corporate clients and investors on a wide range of cross-border M&A, Private Equity and venture capital transactions, including significant buy and sell-side representations, joint ventures and minority investments across multiple jurisdictions, with a focus on the technology, chemicals, healthcare, infrastructure and energy transition sectors.
Prior to joining White & Case, Josh worked for another international law firm in Berlin, Frankfurt and New York City and for a major German NGO in Singapore.
Bars and Courts
Rechtsanwalt
Education
Dr jur
Free University of Berlin
Second State Exam
Higher Regional Court of Berlin
First State Exam
Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg
Languages
German
English
Experience
Chemicals
- LANXESS: Advising specialty chemicals company LANXESS on the sale of its stake in Currenta, operator of one of Europe's largest chemical parks in Germany, to funds managed by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets. LANXESS sold its 40 percent interest alongside chemicals and pharmaceuticals enterprise Bayer at a total deal value of approximately €3.5 billion.
- Clariant: Advising Swiss specialty chemical company Clariant AG, on several transactions, including on the CHF 308 million sale of its Healthcare Packaging business with manufacturing facilities in the US, France, China and India to New York-based private equity fund Arsenal Capital Partners in a bidding process.
- Conzzeta: Advising Swiss listed Conzzeta AG on its acquisition of the foam materials business unit of Otto Bock Group with production sites in Germany, China and the USA, making Conzzeta a global leader in polyurethane-based foam materials for modern mobility solutions used in the car, truck and aviation industries.
Energy and Infrastructure
- Saudi Aramco: Advising Saudi Aramco, one of the world’s leading energy and chemicals producers, on various complex transactions.
- ENVIRIA: Advising commercial and industrial decentralized energy solutions provider ENVIRIA on a capital commitment of over US$200 million from BlackRock through its Global Renewable Power Fund IV.
- CATL: Advising Chinese specialist provider of battery cells and energy storage systems Contemporary Amperex Technology on the acquisition of a 22 percent ownership stake in Valmet Automotive, a Finnish provider of vehicle manufacturing and convertible roof systems.
Financial Institutions / Fintech / E-Commerce
- BayernLB: Advising the Free State of Bavaria on the reorganization of the equity structure of publicly regulated financial institution BayernLB.
- Pollen Street Capital: Advising Pollen Street Capital on the acquisition and integration of niiio finance, fundsaccess, FundHero, FinTecc and MiFID-Recorder.
- Nexi: Advising Nexi, an Italy-based PayTech company, on several transactions, including its acquisition of a 51% stake in Computop Paygate, a German payment services provider processing transactions with an annual volume of around US$30 billion, in several tranches.
- Groupe BPCE: Advising Groupe BPCE on the acquisition of the activities of Société Générale Equipment Finance, one of the leading European providers of industrial equipment lease financing.
- Paysafe: Advising Paysafe on its acquisition of German fintech company viafintech. Paysafe is a leading specialized payments platform which enables businesses and consumers to transact through payment processing, digital wallet and online cash solutions.
- Verdane Capital: Advising Verdane Capital on its investment in recommerce provider momox, the largest seller of used goods on amazon and eBay in Germany and the largest seller on amazon worldwide.
Industrials / Technology
- Faurecia: Advising Faurecia, part of the FORVIA Group and one of the world's largest automotive equipment suppliers, on the sale of its SAS Cockpit Modules division, a global provider of assembly and logistics services for the automotive industry, to automotive supplier MOTHERSON Group.
- Jenoptik: Advising Jenoptik on the sale of its military technology division Vincorion to a fund managed by the financial investor Star Capital Partnership.
- Camtek: Advising NASDAQ-listed Camtek Ltd. (Israel) on its US$100 million acquisition of German FRT GmbH, the semiconductor metrology business of NASDAQ-listed FormFactor Inc.
- AIXTRON: Advising Germany-listed AIXTRON SE, a leading provider of deposition equipment for the semiconductor industry, on numerous transactions, including on:
- the joint venture with South Korean IRUJA Co. Ltd. to invest in APEVA, AIXTRON's subsidiary for OLED deposition technologies for the display industry with companies in the UK, South Korea and Germany.
- the intended approx. €670 million takeover by the Chinese financial investor Fujian Grand Chip Investment. The transaction had to be abandoned by prohibitive order of US President Obama regarding AIXTRON's US business.
- dSPACE: Advising dSPACE, a leading provider of solutions for the development, testing and validation in the autonomous driving and e-mobility industries, on various transactions, including:
- its series seed investment in neurocat, an AI-software based Berlin start-up engaged in AI safety, security and privacy.
- its acquisition of understandAI, a startup developing software in the field of AI for autonomous driving solutions.
- the acquisition of Intempora, a French company providing real-time multisensor software solutions for autonomous driving, from its founders.
- the exclusive cooperation with miro-sys and Innovative Technical Systems (ITS), for the development and marketing of radar test systems serving the entire value chain, and later the extension of the agreement with ITS.
