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Peter Zapf

Senior Associate

Peter Zapf’s practice focuses on corporate law and mergers and acquisitions including public takeovers.

Before joining Squire Sanders, Peter was an associate at a major Germany-based law firm for four years. In 2006, he worked as a secondee for six months at an investment bank.

Representative Experience

    • Advising the owner in the sale of a mutual funds company to an Italy-based financial services group.
    • Advising a leading global aerospace and defense industry supplier in its acquisition of a bearing manufacturer from one of the world’s largest auto parts suppliers.
    • Advising a major Germany-based bank in the sale of its insurance activities and in the acquisition of asset management activities to and from a Switzerland-based financial services company.
    • Advising a large Germany-based industrial company in the sale of its chemical business to a private equity firm in a €2.25 billion deal.
    • Advising a private equity firm in the sale of a transmission and gear systems manufacturer to a German blue chip corporation.
    • Working as a legal secondee with investment bankers of a North America-based bank on several merger and acquisition transactions including public takeovers.

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    Frankfurt
    T +49 69 17392 433

    Education

    Second State Examination, Berlin, 2001
    Cornell University, LL.M., 1998
    University Heidelberg, First State Examination, 1997

    Admissions

    Germany, 2001
    New York, 2001

    Languages

    • English
    • German