Florian Merkle advises on all matters regarding national and international tax law.

His focus is on M&A, restructuring, tax planning, tax optimisation of cross-border investments and the implementation of tax-optimised structures.

Florian studied law in Konstanz, Lausanne and Munich. After working for a big energy company and an international law firm during his legal training at the Munich Higher Regional Court, he started his career in the financial service team of a Big Four accounting firm in 2012. In 2013 he joined the M&A tax team, advising Private Equity firms and international corporations on tax implications of acquisitions, disposals, refinancing and restructurings.

Florian started in Osborne Clarke’s Cologne office in January 2017. In April 2017 he was admitted as tax advisor.

erlich textil

Osborne Clarke advises management team of erlich textil on buy-out. Read more here.

gominga

Osborne Clarke has advised gominga, a provider of a software-as-a-service solution for managing product reviews and customer enquiries, on its sale to saas.group, read more.

Appmatics

Osborne Clarke has advised web and app testing provider Appmatics on Hannover Finanz's entry with a minority stake of 40 percent, read more.

Plantix

Osborne Clarke advises on sale of Plantix to Helm AG, read more.

Tobii Dynavox

Osborne Clarke advises Tobii Dynavox on its agreement to acquire Rehadapt Engineering. Read more here

RS Group plc

Osborne Clarke advises RS Group plc on the EUR 365m acquisition of Distrelec B.V. Read more here.

Carl

Osborne Clarke advises Carl shareholders on the merger of Carl and Doubledigit, read more

Secomba

Osborne Clarke advises Secomba on the sale of its encryption software to Dropbox, read more

heute-wohnen group

Osborne Clarke advises heute-wohnen group on sale of minority stake to BWK, read more

Fairmas Benchmarking

Osborne Clarke advises CoStar on acquisition of Fairmas Benchmarking, read more

Shareholders of KOBRA Formen GmbH

Osborne Clarke advises shareholders on the sale of a majority stake in KOBRA Formen to Rieker Investment, read more

Galileo Global Education Germany

Osborne Clarke advises Galileo on acquisition of AKAD University, read more

instagrid

Osborne Clarke advises battery specialist instagrid on EUR 29 million funding round

VAMED Gesundheit

Osborne Clarke advises VAMED Gesundheit on acquisition of Chiemgau Health Centre

DoorDash

Osborne Clarke has advised DoorDash on USD 750 million Series B financing round of rapid delivery firm Flink SE, read more

FUNKE Mediengruppe

Osborne Clarke berät FUNKE Mediengruppe bei Übernahme von Mehrheit an Musterhaus.net, lesen Sie hier mehr

justETF

Osborne Clarke advises the founders of justETF GmbH on the sale of the company to Scalable Capital GmbH, read more

Onit

Osborne Clarke advises Onit on acquisition of BusyLamp, read more

Addtech Nordic AB

Osborne Clarke advises Addtech Nordic AB on acquisition of systerra computer GmbH, read more

Amscan International

Osborne Clarke advises Amscan International on the acquisition of Luftballon-Markt GmbH, read more

Warburg Pincus

Osborne Clarke advises Warburg Pincus in McMakler Series C2 financing round, read more

CoStar Group

Osborne Clarke advises CoStar Group in the acquisition of Emporis GmbH, a global provider of building data. 

Com2uS

Osborne Clarke advises game developer Com2uS on acquisition of OOTP, read more

Framode GmbH

Osborne Clarke advises Framode GmbH (Pimkie Germany) on protective shielding procedures, read more

Fever-Tree

Osborne Clarke advises Fever-Tree on its acquisition of Global Drinks Partnership, read more

Cathay Innovation

Osborne Clarke advises Cathay Innovation on MEDWING’s 28 million financing round, read more

Alpha Foods

Osborne Clarke advises Alpha Foods on the sale to Vendis Capital backed Sylphar, read more

Sequoia Capital and firstminute capital

Osborne Clarke advises Sequoia Capital and firstminute capital on investment in n8n GmbH, read more

Fyffes

Osborne Clarke advises Fyffes on expansion in Germany, read more

Lightspeed

Osborne Clarke advises on the sale of Gastrofix to Lightspeed, read more

Playa Games

Osborne Clarke advises the founders of Playa Games on its sale to Stillfront Group, read more

eCapital

Osborne Clarke advises eCAPITAL on investment in Ferroelectric Memory Company, read more

Reifenhäuser Group

Osborne Clarke advises EDS owner on takeover by Reifenhäuser Group, read more

A-Gas

Osborne Clarke advises A-Gas on acquisition of Arthur Friedrichs Kaeltemittel, read more

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