Dr. Cai Berg is a Senior Managing Director at ParkView. He is frequently recognized as one of the leading M&A dealmakers in the region. Prior to joining ParkView, Dr. Berg was responsible for establishing Evercore’s corporate M&A business in Germany. Before that he worked at Lazard in Frankfurt. Mr. Berg started his career as lawyer for M&A and Private Equity as a partner at Gleiss Lutz, a leading German law firm.
Dr. Berg has more than 20 years of experience in particular with respect to public takeovers as well as complex private M&A transactions and has advised on transactions with a total deal value of more than EUR 50bn. He has helped a variety of listed companies facing hostile and friendly takeover approaches as well as campaigns from activist hedge funds and he has advised corporates, private equity firms and family offices across a diverse variety of industries with a focus on the tech, healthcare, industrials and business services space and on a broad range of corporate finance and capital markets transactions including taking-privates, IPOs, capital increases, carve-outs, as well as majority and minority investments in listed companies and family-owned companies.
Dr. Berg has advised on some of the most prominent German M&A deals over the last 20 years. Some of his recent mandates have been advising 1&1 on the public partial acquisition offer by United Internet, KKR on the EUR 0.7bn strategic partnership with and taking-private of DATAGROUP, SNP on the EUR 0.5bn public takeover by Carlyle, STEMMER IMAGING on the voluntary takeover offer by MiddleGround Capital, CropEnergies on the EUR 0.8bn public delisting offer by Südzucker, Thoma Bravo on its partnership with and taking private of EQS Group AG, SYNLAB on the EUR 3.9bn public acquisition offer by Cinven, va-Q-tec on its strategic partnership with and taking private by EQT Private Equity, Vonovia on its EUR 31.5bn voluntary public takeover offer for Deutsche Wohnen, CANCOM SE on the EUR 0.4bn disposal of CANCOM UK&I, ISRA VISION on its EUR 1.1bn friendly takeover by Atlas Copco, Stada on its EUR 5.4bn public takeover by Bain and Cinven as well as Superior Industries on its EUR 0.7bn cross-border taking private of competitor Uniwheels. His clients also included, inter alia, Audi, Bosch, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bilfinger, Blackstone, Heidelberg Cement, Infineon, Koerber and Voith.
Dr. Berg is a qualified German lawyer and earned his law degree at the universities of Heidelberg, Lausanne and Bonn. Mr. Berg holds a Ph.D. in law and has published several articles regarding M&A related topics. He holds a lectureship for corporate valuation at the University of Heidelberg. Dr. Berg is engaged in several social and charity projects in Germany and South America.