Bio

Peter Memminger is partner in King & Spalding’s Frankfurt office and heads its M&A/Private Equity practice in Germany. Peter focuses on (public) M&A, corporate, and litigation work on behalf of private equity funds, family offices and large corporates. He helps clients with a broad range of domestic and global transactions including M&A, restructuring, insolvency and ESG matters and represents them in related corporate litigation. Peter also advises on corporate governance and directors' and officers' liability issues. With more than 25 years of experience, Peter represents private equity funds, family offices and leading corporates across various industries in their domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and complex restructuring and insolvency matters. He has handled more than 400 transactions with an aggregate deal value of more than EUR 30 billion. Peter also has extensive experience with representing clients in litigation matters arising out of his corporate work and, on behalf of clients, has handled some of the largest corporate disputes in Germany to date. Clients appraise him for his unique combination of strong legal skills and strategic thinking with a deep economic understanding of the value drivers of transactions and negotiations. For more than a decade, Peter has been ranked among the leading M&A and Private Equity lawyers by leading guides such as Chambers, Legal 500, JUVE, IFLR, Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers and others. He regularly speaks on M&A topics and lectures on international law and M&A at Hochschule Fresenius. Peter is a former Regional Ambassador for INSEAD's International Directors Program (IDP) in Germany and serves as member of various supervisory and advisory boards in Germany and abroad. Prior to joining King & Spalding, Peter founded his own boutique firm, Memminger LLP, before combining the practice with a Munich-based litigation boutique to form Bub Memminger & Partner LLP. Prior to establishing his own firm, Peter was a partner at Milbank, where he successfully established and expanded the corporate division, back then one of the youngest equity partners worldwide. Before working as a lawyer, Peter worked as an assistant to the board in the M&A department at JPMorgan Chase & Co. He also was a partner at a German restructuring fund and served on its investment committee from 2017 to 2020.