Tobias Geerling

Tobias Geerling

Munich, DE recognized lawyers icon Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2012
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

7 Best Lawyers awards

Awarded Practice Areas

Corporate Law Mergers and Acquisitions Law Tax Law

Biography

Tobias Geerling is a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges Munich office. His practice focuses on transactional work, advising in particular on tax, cross-border private equity and M&A transactions as well as on international corporate partnership real estate, insolvency and exempt organization tax issues. He has extensive experience handling tax-efficient structuring of M&A transactions, corporate re-organizations, fund structuring and tax-driven derivatives. His experience expands in a number of sectors including automotive, telecommunications, real estate, e-commerce and technology. Mr. Geerling has lectured and published on various corporate law and tax law matters, including his supplements in the Commentary to the German transformation and spin off rules (Umwandlungsgesetz) published by the leading publishing house "Beck". Tobias Geerling started his career with one of the big four accounting firms and has since worked in Berlin, Düsseldorf, New York and Frankfurt.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

7 Best Lawyers awards

Overview

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  • German

  • Germany, Germany

Client Testimonials

Awards & Focus

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Germany 2026 for work in:
  • Corporate Law
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law
  • Tax Law

Case History

Transactions
  • Advent International
Acquisition of Williams Lea Tag from Deutsche Post
  • Advent International and Bain Capital
Acquisition of Concardis from a consortium of banks including Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, UniCredit, DZ Bank and a number of small German savings banks
  • Alibaba Group
Acquisition of Daraz from Rocket Internet
  • Centerbridge Partners
Sale of A.T.U. Group to Mobivia Group
  • Centerbridge Partners LP
Acquisition of Senvion SE (formerly REpower Systems SE) from the Suzlon Group
  • Change Capital Partners
Sale of Hallhuber to Gerry Weber International AG
  • GHO Capital Partners
Acquisition of Linimed Gruppe from Vitruvian Partners
  • KKR
Acquisition of a majority stake in heidelpay from AnaCap
  • KKR/ TTL Real Estate GmbH
Sale of their respective share in GEG German Estate Group to DIC Asset AG
  • MS Industrie AG
Sale of MS Industries Inc. in the U.S.
  • Novalpina Capital
Take-private of Olympic Entertainment Group
  • Novalpina Capital
Support of the MBO/acquisition of NSO Group from Francisco Partners
  • Pernod Ricard
Minority investment in Africa Internet Group (Jumia)
  • Professional Datasolutions
Acquisition of Lomosoft GmbH from Abs Bonifer Speditions Gmbh & Co Kg
  • Schwind eye-tech-solutions
Sale to Ardian
  • Summit Partners
Acquisition of a majority stake in 360 Treasury Systems AG
  • Tipico Co. Ltd. (Founders/ Shareholders)
Sale of a majority stake in the company to CVC Capital Partners
  • TPG Capital
Carve-out of the MEDIA Broadcast Group from TDF Group and the subsequent sale to Freenet AG
  • Upfield
Acquisition of Arivia

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