Helge Schaefer
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Helge Schäfer

Senior Counsel

Email

helge.schaefer@aoshearman.com

Phone

+49 40 82221 2111

Offices

Hamburg

V-CARD
Helge has wide experience advising on a range of international commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, joint ventures, MBOs and international corporate restructuring.

Experience

Representative matters

  • City of Hamburg and HGV on MSC's takeover bid for HHLA AG (terminal operator) and on the agreements with MSC on future cooperation with MSC.
  • Regular advice of a leisure, travel and tourism company on including three large capital measures in the past two years alone (EUR1.1bn capital increase, EUR400m convertible bond and topping up of this by EUR190m as well as EUR1.8bn financing package to bridge the Covid 19 pandemic) as well as two billion-Euro M&A transactions (sale of the EUR1.5bn RIU hotel joint venture stake and the EUR1.2bn a subsidiary of the company joint venture with Royal Caribbean).
  • Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) on the strategic investment of COSCO Shipping Ports Limited (CSPL), a Hong Kong listed terminal operator and member of COSCO Shipping Group, in HHLA Container Terminal Tollerort (CTT). 
  • Advent International on the sale of allnex Group to Netherlands-based PTTGC International (Netherlands) B.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of Bangkok-based PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited. This is one of the biggest private equity deals in 2021. 
  • Mubadala, the sovereign wealth fund of the United Arab Emirates, on the sale of its stake in the international chemical company Borealis in the amount of EUR4.2bn.

 

 

Published Work

  • Schaefer H. (co-author) (2004) "Zur Unwirksamkeit der Beweisbelastung des Kunden fuer Einwendungen gegen Rechnung eines Telekommunikationsdienstleisters", BGH Urteil v. 24.06.2004 - III ZR 104/03, EWiR 2004, page 1151
  • Schaefer H. (co-author) (2004) "Zum Anspruch des Grundstueckseigentuemers auf Nutzungsentgelt gemaess § 76 TKG auch ohne Vorliegen einer Grundstuecksbeeintraechtigung", commentary on BGH Urteil v. 14.05.2004 - V ZR 292/03, EWiR 2004, page 991,992
  • Schaefer H. (2003) "Venture-Capital-Vertraege", RWS Verlag Kommunikationsforum GmbH, 5/2003
  • Schaefer H., Ascherfeld N. (2007) "Die Reform des deutschen GmbH-Rechts durch das MoMiG", RWZ 10/2007
  • Schaefer H., Giebel Chr. (2004) "Private Wegerechte im neuen Telekommunikationsgesetz", ZfiR 2004, page 661-665
  • Schaefer H., Giebel Chr. (2003) "Keine Duldungspflicht des Grundstueckseigentuemers gemaess § 57 Abs. 1 TKG fuer Gebaeude", ZfIR 19/2003, page 797-840
  • Schaefer H., Huesdunk L. (2003) "Verfassungswidrigkeit der Sonderzustaendigkeit der Reg TP fuer Zustimmungen zur Verlegung von Telekommunikationslinien bei eigener Lizenznehmerschaft des Wegebaulasttraegers, § 50 TKG 1/03", EWiR 20/2003, page 1053
  • Schaefer H., Giebel Chr. (2003) "Telekommunikationslinie, Planfeststellung, Folgekostenpflicht bei AEnderung des Verkehrswegs, §53 TKG", EWiR 14/2003
  • Schaefer H., Giebel Chr. (2003) "Die Ausformung des §57 TKG durch die neuere Rechtsprechung", ZfIR 01/2003
  • Schaefer H. (2002) "Ausgleichsanspruch zu Gunsten des Besitzers eines Grundstuecks fuer durch Verlegung einer Telekommunikationsleitung erlittene Schaeden", EWiR 21/2002
  • Schaefer H. (2002) commentary on "Neueinrichtung einer Telekommunikationslinie, Duldungspflicht des Grundstueckseigentuemers, beschraenkte persoenliche Dienstbarkeit", EWiR 11/2002

Qualifications

Admissions

Admitted as German Rechtsanwalt, 1989

Academic

Dr iur, University of Hamburg, Germany, 1992 

Second German Law Degree, 1989 

First German Law Degree, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (Breisgau), 1985

Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.