Bio

Having joined Sullivan & Cromwell in 2000, Carsten Berrar is managing partner of the Firm's Frankfurt office and co-head of the Firm’s Capital Markets Group.Ranked as the only “star individual” for German Equity Capital Markets by Chambers Europe (since 2010) and “Top Dealmaker 2019” in M&A by Finance Magazin (2020), Berrar is one of Germany’s leading lawyers for both capital markets and M&A matters. His capital markets experience on both the issuer’s and underwriters’ side includes many of the largest and most significant IPOs, rights offerings and listings in Germany within the last two decades. At the same time, Dr. Berrar has advised on many landmark M&A transactions in Germany, thereby in particular shaping the German public M&A market. Dr. Berrar is also a seasoned corporate and corporate governance advisor who counsels clients on a wide range of topics such as shareholder meetings, transformational transactions (e.g. spin-offs/subsidiary IPOs) and post-transaction corporate measures, which has seen him recognized as one of the leading corporate lawyers in Germany by JUVE Magazin. This combination of a multidisciplinary transactional practice and a leading advisory role make Dr. Berrar one of the key senior business law advisors in Germany.