Tobias Geerling
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Recognized since 2012
Munich, Germany
Practice Areas
Corporate Law
Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Tax Law
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.
Contact & Links
- Lawyer Page: https://www.weil.com/people/tobias-geerling
Location
- Maximilianhoefe
Maximilianstrasse 13
Munich 80539
Germany
Languages
- English
- German
Bar Admissions
- Germany, Germany
WG&M
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Headquarters: New York, New York
7 The Best Lawyers in Germany™ awards
9 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Germany™ awards
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Germany™ 2026 for work in:
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Tax Law
Transactions
Advent International
Acquisition of Williams Lea Tag from Deutsche PostAdvent 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 banksAlibaba Group
Acquisition of Daraz from Rocket InternetCenterbridge Partners
Sale of A.T.U. Group to Mobivia GroupCenterbridge Partners LP
Acquisition of Senvion SE (formerly REpower Systems SE) from the Suzlon GroupChange Capital Partners
Sale of Hallhuber to Gerry Weber International AGGHO Capital Partners
Acquisition of Linimed Gruppe from Vitruvian PartnersKKR
Acquisition of a majority stake in heidelpay from AnaCapKKR/ TTL Real Estate GmbH
Sale of their respective share in GEG German Estate Group to DIC Asset AGMS Industrie AG
Sale of MS Industries Inc. in the U.S.Novalpina Capital
Take-private of Olympic Entertainment GroupNovalpina Capital
Support of the MBO/acquisition of NSO Group from Francisco PartnersPernod Ricard
Minority investment in Africa Internet Group (Jumia)Professional Datasolutions
Acquisition of Lomosoft GmbH from Abs Bonifer Speditions Gmbh & Co KgSchwind eye-tech-solutions
Sale to ArdianSummit Partners
Acquisition of a majority stake in 360 Treasury Systems AGTipico Co. Ltd. (Founders/ Shareholders)
Sale of a majority stake in the company to CVC Capital PartnersTPG Capital
Carve-out of the MEDIA Broadcast Group from TDF Group and the subsequent sale to Freenet AGUpfield
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