Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Alexander “Stefan” Rieger will join the firm’s Frankfurt office as a partner in the M&A and Private Equity Practice. Rieger advises infrastructure funds, pension funds, private equity investors, project developers, and insurance and other companies on a variety of complex, cross-border mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, with a particular focus on energy and infrastructure, including digital infrastructure, gas and renewables, transportation, utility, and industrial parks sectors. He also has a wealth of experience negotiating complex commercial contracts.
“We are delighted to welcome Stefan to the firm,” said Burc Hesse, Office Managing Partner of Latham & Watkins in Germany. “He is a highly regarded M&A practitioner, with deep connections to the infrastructure market and a stellar reputation for advising clients on complex energy and infrastructure transactions. His arrival adds further depth to our strong and growing transactional practice in Germany.”
“Stefan strongly complements our existing practice and he will add significant industry knowledge and expertise to our leading M&A and private equity capabilities in Europe. Further deepening our M&A practice is a key strategic priority for the firm, and his experience on infrastructure and energy M&A across the DACH-region, including Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and more broadly throughout Europe, will help us continue to grow our market share in the service of our clients,” added Oliver Felsenstein, Global Chair of the firm’s Private Equity Practice.
“Latham has a preeminent global reputation for advising on the most significant energy and infrastructure matters,” said Tobias Larisch, Deputy Office Managing Partner of Latham & Watkins in Germany. “Stefan brings in-depth knowledge and sophisticated commercial understanding in a number of significant infrastructure sectors, and his technical skills and expertise from the frontlines of some of the market’s most complex and high profile infrastructure projects will be of great value to our clients in Germany and across Europe.”
Rieger will join Latham & Watkins from Hogan Lovells. He received his legal degree from Goethe-University Frankfurt and completed both his first and second state exams in Hesse.
