Sebastian Eisenhut

Senior Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

Sebastian Eisenhut

Sebastian Eisenhut

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Biography

Sebastian Eisenhut is a corporate lawyer based in Munich. His main industry focus is on the energy, infrastructure, and technology sector, including in particular businesses driven by the energy and mobility transition.

He regularly advises clients on energy projects, including geothermal projects where he has substantial experience. He further regularly advises clients on national and international M&A, venture capital and private equity transactions as well as on corporate reorganisations with a strong focus on the energy and infrastructure sector. Sebastian's experience includes in particular advice on investments in startups and growth companies from a corporate and investor perspective.

Before joining the firm in 2016, he worked in our Munich and Tokyo offices alongside his legal traineeship.


Professional experience

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  • University of Regensburg – focus on corporate and insolvency law
  • University of Regensburg – four semester's interdisciplinary course in corporate reorganisation combining legal and economic aspects
  • Rechtsanwalt
  • Multinational integrated oil, gas and petrochemical company – on a joint venture with an international geothermal developer on the development of various geothermal projects in Lower-Saxony
  • Multinational energy company – on its potential equity investment and joint venture agreement in connection with a geothermal project in Upper Rhine Valley
  • InfraRed Capital Partners – on a 150 million Euro investment in electric mobility company JOLT Energy
  • JERA Americas Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan's largest power producer JERA Co., Inc., - on its primary and secondary investment as lead investor of an investment consortium in Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies GmbH, a company active in the field of production and sale of process-technology equipment for storage and delivery of liquid organic hydrogen carriers
  • Lanes & Planes GmbH – on its 35 million USD Series B financing round led by US venture capital fund Smash Capital
  • The shareholders of vertical farming company &ever GmbH - on the sale of their shares in &ever GmbH to Kalera
  • Brookfield Asset Management Inc. – on its acquisition of Sunovis, a solar project design and development company
  • bp – on the acquisition of GETEC Energie GmbH, a German company with an international focus based in Hanover that supports energy consumers, suppliers and producers with services relating to the procurement, supply and distribution of energy
  • Munich Re and ERGO Asset Management (MEAG), Munich Re's global asset manager - on the sale of 16 wind farms in Germany to Q-Energy, a renewable energy investor, project developer and asset manager
  • Numbat GmbH – on the structuring, financing, and sale of an independent portfolio of fast-charging stations for electric vehicles to PATRIZIA European Infrastructure Fund II and III
  • German
  • English

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