Munich, 20 December 2011. Linklaters advised the Italian bank UniCredit on the conclusion of an exclusive strategic partnership with the investment bank Kepler Capital Markets S.A. (Kepler). The new alliance is intended to support UniCredit’s equity markets business in the fields of equity research and execution services. Kepler shall provide analyst reports for the Western European capital markets and other business units and shall be exclusively responsible for the worldwide distribution of Western European equity market transactions.
UniCredit is a global financial institution based in Milan, Italy. In the financial year 2010, the Bank with more than 160,000 employees generated a net profit of about €1.3 billion.
Since its incorporation in 1997, Kepler has become Europe’s leading provider of equity research and cash equity execution services. More than 500 institutional investors all over the world use the firm’s services.
The Linklaters team was led by Dr Wolfgang Krauel (corporate/M&A, Munich) and Dr Konrad Berger (TMT, Munich). The team also included Dr Franz Schaefer, Dr Timo Engelhardt, Dr Marcus Klie, Dr Goran Studen, Christoph Rödter (all corporate/M&A, Munich), Ulli Janssen, Johannes Baare (both corporate/M&A, Frankfurt), Dr Ingemar Kartheuser (TMT, Munich), Andreas Steck, Antje-Irina Kurz, Dr André Hofmann, Dr Frederik Winter, Dr Bernd Markus Geier, Felix Steffen Geiger (all financial regulation, Frankfurt), Andreas Schaflitzl, Dr Martin Lausterer, Andreas Heckner, Jörg Schrade (all tax, Munich), Carolin Goll-Müller, Thomas Bader, Thorben Eisenbeiß (all employment, Munich), Dr Jens Matthes (IP, Düsseldorf), Daniel von Brevern (cartel law, Düsseldorf), Joshua Berick (corporate/M&A, New York), Robin Maxwell (financial regulation, New York), Carl Fernandes (financial regulation, London), Alain Garnier, Dan Schuster-Woldan (both corporate/M&A, London), Mark Kingstone, Martin Lynchehan (both tax, London), Jean Lovett (employment, London), Andrei Murygin (capital markets, Moscow), Jolanta Tropaczynska (corporate/M&A, Warsaw).
