The transaction is subject to approval by the relevant committees and competition authorities.
A Milbank team, which comprehensively advised the Otto Group on corporate, tax and antitrust law aspects of the transaction, was led by partners Norbert Rieger and Sebastian Heim (both Corporate/M&A) and included the partners Rolf Füger (Tax) and Alexander Rinne (Antitrust, all Munich) as well as the associates Leopold Riedl (Corporate/M&A, Frankfurt); Maximilian Pechtl (Corporate/M&A ); Moritz Philipp, Arne Hammerich (both Tax); and Alexander Zyrewitz (Antitrust, all Munich).
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