Dr. Angela Kerek

“ I don’t just provide technical legal counsel, but also strategic business advice that helps my clients achieve their goals.

As a former professional tennis player, Angela is determined to win for her clients. She advises in banking and finance law working on mergers and acquisitions, corporate and venture finance, and restructurings. Providing counsel on deals for SoundCloud, PlanA.Earth, Renolit, Funke, Pamplona, leading banks for HeidelbergCement, Nokia HERE and Schaeffler, Angela excels at strategically advising clients throughout their growth curve, as well as on major projects and ventures.

Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, Angela worked at a major international law firm in Frankfurt and spent time in London at the Global Restructuring Group (CRU) of The Royal Bank of Scotland. Her unmatched ability to master a wide range of financial products and sectors throughout her career makes her a preeminent advisor in the world of finance law.

Angela’s dedicated enthusiasm to tackle any challenge extends beyond her work for her international clients. As a board member of the Morrison & Foerster Foundation, she is responsible for the Foundation’s work in Germany, which includes supporting charitable efforts that foster children’s health and growth, at-risk communities, and refugee protection.

Educated at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, on “Improving Your Business Through a Culture of Health” (2019) and on “Work Health and Wellbeing:Achieving Workerh Health” (2021), Angela is committed to promoting sports, nutrition, and overall health and well-being in the workplace at Morrison & Forester in Germany and across the firms’ global offices. She was a member of our Mental Health Committee for Europe, which is building worldwide and on-site health programs for people working at MoFo. The German on-site health program was recognized by AZUR Awards as the “Most Innovative Project” in the legal sector in Germany in 2020 and won second prize in Best of Legal 2021 by Wirtschaftswoche for “New Work, Talent Management and Culture”.

Representative Experience

• Advised FYBER on the purchase of shares by Digital Turbine.
• Advised PlanA.Earth on its financing round with Demeter and Coparion.
• Advised DEAG AG on its financing instruments in its taking to Privat.
• Advised MEDIOS AG on its group financing facility.
• Advised MGI on the issuance of Nordic Bonds in refinancing of the gamigo AG Nordic Bonds.
• Advised RENOLIT SE in its EUR 550m acquisition in relation to family shareholder buyout.
• Advised RKW SE in relation to its group financing matters on an ongoing basis.
• Advised gamigo AG in relation to its financing through listed Nordic Bonds.
• Advised Davidson Capital Growth Funds in relation to the venture debt financings of Move24 Group GmbH, tausendkind GmbH, Aliada Ltd, Monoqi GmbH, Book-a-Tiger and other ongoing financings.
• Advised SoundCloud in relation to its group financing matters on an ongoing basis (since 2018).
• Advised Spark SE in relation to its refinancing with Blue Torch Finance LLC in 2019 and in relation to its refinancing by Silicon Valley bank in 2018.
• A group active in the defense industry in connection with various guarantee facility and working capital facility agreements.
• Advised Elvaston private equity fund in its acquisition of the GUS Group.
• Advised OQEMA AG in relation to its group refinancing.
• Advised PCM RailOne AG in relation to its group financing matters.
• Advised Fyber N.V. in relation to its restructuring in 2018.
• Advised Target Global in relation to convertible bond issuance in Book-a-Tiger.
• Advised Movinga GmbH in relation to a bond financing by Harbert Capital.
• Advised Tyndaris LLP real estate debt fund in relation to a purchase of a residential portfolio in Berlin.
• Advised Wild Bunch AG in relation to its restructuring 2018.
• Advised HayFin Capital Management funds in relation to the financing of the Paradigm Spine Group.
• Advised Ciber AG in relation to a receivables financing transaction with FGI.
• Advised Davidson Capital Growth Funds in relation to the financing of SoundCloud.
• Advised banks in connection with the acquisition of Nokia HERE by a bidder consortium consisting of Audi, BMW and Daimler.
• Advised banks in the € 4.4bn takeover of Italcementi by Heidelberg Cement.
• Advised Deutsche Börse on the acquisition of 360T.
• Advised Pamplona/LetterOne Group on the € 5.1bn acquisition financing of DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG.
• Advised Siemens AG on the attempted takeover of the French energy and transport group Alstom.
• Advised Funke Mediengruppe on the acquisition of Springer publications and on the refinancing of the group facilities.
• Advised the banks on the restructuring and refinancing of the Schaeffler Group.