Hengeler Mueller advises innogy on acquisition and group reorganisation

12. March 2018

RWE and E.ON reached an agreement in principle according to which RWE shall sell its 76.8 per cent stake in innogy SE to E.ON. Binding agreements have not yet been concluded. The sale will be performed via a wide-ranging exchange of business activities and participations. Inter alia, RWE would receive a 16.67 per cent participation in E.ON. Furthermore, RWE would get substantially all of E.ONs renewables business and the entire innogy renewables business. E.ON would make a voluntary public takeover offer in cash to the minority shareholders of innogy.

Hengeler Mueller advises innogy SE. The Hengeler Mueller team is led by partner Andreas Austmann (Corporate/M&A) and includes partners Matthias Hentzen (M&A/Corporate), Hartwin Bungert (Corporate), Christoph Stadler (Antitrust) and Vera Jungkind (Public Law) as well as associates Christian Strothotte (Corporate/M&A), Dominik Hess (Corporate/M&A), Mauritz Rogier (Corporate), Adrian Cavin (Corporate), Maximilian Schauf (Corporate/M&A) and Deniz Tschammler (Public Law) (all Düsseldorf).