Nicolas Eberle

Nicolas is a Managing Director and General Counsel at HWF, based in Frankfurt, and a member of HWF’s DACH senior leadership team. His practice focuses on the placement and structuring of all transactional risk insurance policies (W&I, tax, contingent and ancillary products) on M&A transactions in the DACH region. Nicolas works with private equity sponsors, strategic investors and their legal advisers on domestic and cross-border transactions, with a particular focus on complex situations such as carve-outs, restructurings and transactions in regulated industries.

As General Counsel, Nicolas provides legal advice to the DACH leadership team on regulatory, contractual and corporate matters. 

Nicolas is qualified to practise law in Germany and holds a doctorate in law (Dr. iur.) from EBS Law School. His working languages are German and English.

Prior to joining HWF, Nicolas spent four years as an underwriter at The RiskPoint Group, most recently as Underwriting Director, where he underwrote W&I insurance on transactions across a broad range of sectors, predominantly in the DACH and BeNeLux regions. Before moving into the insurance market, he practised as a lawyer for seven years, first at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, advising private equity sponsors and corporates on national and cross-border M&A transactions, and subsequently as a Salary Partner at a mid-sized German law firm, where he built up the firm’s Frankfurt corporate, M&A and financial regulatory practice and advised on corporate matters, distressed M&A and transactions involving regulated financial institutions. Earlier in his career, Nicolas gained experience at leading international law firms such as Linklaters and Latham & Watkins, including a period in  Latham & Watkins’ New York office.