Main areas of practice
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Corporate Law
- Corporate restructuring
- Renewable energies
Isabella C. H. Schmidt is a Senior Associate in the Corporate/M&A department.
She advises and represents national and international clients in the areas of Commercial and Corporate Law and regularly advises on complex, national and cross-border M&A transactions, private equity transactions and joint ventures with a special focus on the energy and technology sector.
Furthermore, she regularly advises on Corporate Law structural measures, reorganizations and general Corporate Law issues and represents our clients in Corporate Law disputes in court.
Before joining HUPE | GANTENBERG, Isabella C. H. Schmidt worked for several years for renowned international law firms in the area of Corporate Law/M&A.
Recent work
- Buy-side: Advising a private equity group on the acquisition of an international group of companies in the agricultural sector
- Buy-side: Ongoing advice to an international Family Office on the acquisition of testing laboratories
- Advising a Luxembourg based investment fund on the establishment of a project pipeline for ground-mounted photovoltaic plants with a German project developer
- Sell-side: Advising a German project developer on the structuring, financing and sale of an independent portfolio of fast charging stations for electric vehicles to an infrastructure fund by way of a share deal*
- Sell-side: Advising a major European project developer on the sale of four ready-to-build plantations of photovoltaic systems in Spain by way of a share deal*
- Buy-side: Advising a British energy group on the acquisition of an energy division of a German infrastructure group*
- Ongoing advice to a Chinese automobile manufacturer on various corporate law issues in connection with the establishment and operational implementation of its European business*
- Buy-side: Advising a German private equity fund on numerous acquisitions in the technology sector by way of share deals*
- Advising an Italian energy group on the restructuring of its German group companies*
- Advising a German real estate asset manager on the establishment of a joint venture with a German real estate investment company for the development of a portfolio of logistics centers
- Buy-side: Advising a Dutch private equity fund on the acquisition of online mail order companies by way of a share deal*
- Buy-side and sell-side: Advising a German real estate investment stock corporation on the acquisition and sale of several high-rise buildings in Frankfurt am Main by way of share and asset deals*
- Advising a German real estate investment company on post-M&A restructuring in the form of the migration of a Luxembourg S.à r.l. to Germany*
- Ongoing advice on post-M&A disputes and representation in court*
*before joining HUPE I GANTENBERG
Education
| 2011 – 2016: | Law studies at the University of Regensburg and the University of Aberdeen |
| 2016 – 2018: | Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Munich with a stage abroad in London |
Professional career
| 2019: | Associate at A&O Shearman (formerly Allen & Overy LLP) |
| 2019-2022: | Associate at Simmons & Simmons LLP |
| 2022 – 2024: | Associate and Senior Associate at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP |
| Since 2024: | Senior Associate at HUPE I GANTENBERG Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft mbB |
Languages
Deutsch, Englisch