Milbank Advises General Atlantic on Combination of Deutsche Börse’s Qontigo and ISS

Milbank LLP advised General Atlantic on the intended combination of Qontigo and ISS (both majority-owned by Deutsche Börse), with General Atlantic becoming the sole minority shareholder of the combined Qontigo entity. Deutsche Börse and General Atlantic have jointly reached an agreement on the intended combination aiming to form a leading combined ESG, data, index, and analytics provider. This will allow them to explore value-creating capital markets options.

General Atlantic is a leading global growth equity firm providing capital and strategic support for growth companies. General Atlantic combines a collaborative global approach, sector-specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon and a deep understanding of growth drivers.

The Milbank team advising General Atlantic was led by partners Sebastian Heim and Norbert Rieger (both Corporate/M&A) and included partners Suhrud Mehta, Alexandra Grant (both Finance), Phlipp Klöckner (Capital Markets),  Rolf Füger (Tax), Alexander Rinne (Antitrust), Tawfiq S. Rangwala (Litigation & Arbitration), Catherine Leef Martin (Alternative Investments) and Andrew J. Fadale (Corporate/M&A), special counsel Thomas Moeller (Finance) as well as associates Pascal Härdtner, Alexandra Schäfer, Mahmood Kawany, Marc Kanzler, Nick Yousefi, Stephanie Winkler, Jinney Chung, Sara El Souki, Christina Welch, David Templeton (all Corporate/M&A), Peetra Anderson-Figueroa, Gautam Sundaresh (both Finance), Arne Hammerich (Tax), Nils Bremer, Jan Maas (both Antitrust), Peter Rosania, Lauren Trushin (both Litigation & Arbitration), and Liam O'Connor (Real Estate).