Speakers

Dr Marlene Ruf

Associate, Restructuring, Kirkland & Ellis

Dr. Marlene Ruf is a restructuring associate in the Munich office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP.
She focuses on cross-border restructurings advising both debtors and creditors on acquisitions, disposals and reorganizations of stressed and distressed businesses. Handelsblatt Best Lawyers lists her among the “Ones to Watch” 2021 for restructuring and insolvency law in Germany.

Representative Matters:

►Orchard Global Asset Management and Deutsche Bank on the financial repositioning and takeover of HIT Group
►Galapagos, a European provider of heat exchange and machine cooling systems, in relation to its financial restructuring
►Funds advised by Centerbridge Partners, L.P. in its majority equity investment in Syncapay, Inc. for the acquisition of North Lane Technologies (formerly Wirecard North America) and combination with daVinci Payments
►Ad hoc group of lenders on the successful recapitalization of BARTEC Group. The transaction included a change of ownership, an investment of EUR 80 million of new equity and the significant reduction of financial debt
►Advice to European institutional investor groups on the sale of about EUR 150 million senior secured bonds in a student living portfolio; we advised on a comprehensive restructuring analysis of the Germany-Luxembourg real estate structure and the bonds sale in connection with an all-consensual acquisition of the portfolio by TPG Real Estate
►Agrokor on its financial restructuring – As one of the most important employers in the Balkans, the insolvent food company was placed under state supervision in order to implement a restructuring plan. The financial restructuring was recognized at the 2018 Global Restructuring Review Awards as “Most important recognition decision” and at the IFLR Europe Awards 2020 as “Restructuring Deal of the Year”
►Coordinating committee of first lien lenders of Jack Wolfskin on the comprehensive financial restructuring
►Creat Group Corporation on the EUR 940 million public takeover of Biotest AG; to date one of the largest investments by a Chinese company in the Western health sector
►Bain Capital and Cinven on their EUR 5.4 billion joint public takeover of the German pharmaceutical company Stada Arzneimittel AG; to date the largest private equity transaction ever realized in the German market
Education:

►University of Hamburg, Germany, Dr. jur., 2017
►Higher Regional Court Hamburg, Germany, Second State Examination, 2015
►Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany, First State Examination, 2012
►Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, Law Studies, 2009
Admissions & Qualifications:
2017, Germany
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date & time

2 June - 4 June, 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Venue

Pullman Paris Tour Eiffel Paris, France

Chapter

TMA Europe

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