Christoph is an associate in our Corporate practice in Frankfurt.
Christoph advises national and international clients on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, in particular with a focus on private equity and growth equity/venture capital investments.
Background
Christoph studied law at the University of Heidelberg and graduated from the University of Freiburg. Since 2021, he has been admitted to the German bar. Prior to joining Herbert Smith Freehills, Christoph worked for leading German and American law firms in their Corporate and Private Equity/Venture Capital departments.
He is fluent in German and English.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
M&A/Private Equity
- Avedon Capital Partners on the acquisition of all shares in IoT platform provider Cumulocity GmbH from Software GmbH
- 908 Devices regarding the acquisition of TRACE Analytics*
- Beyond Capital regarding the acquisition of Soft & Cloud*
- Huma Therapeutics regarding the acquisition of Alcedis*
- LionRock Capital regarding the acquisition of Haglöfs AB*
- Shareholders of Bioassay and Peptide Specialty Laboratories regarding the sale to Reaction Biology*
- Summit Partners regarding the sale of its interest in the ELATEC group*
- Volkswagen and Porsche regarding a joint venture between Bugatti and Rimac Automobili*
VC/Growth Equity
- BOND regarding its investments in Flink*
- Canaan Partners regarding its investment in WorkMotion*
- Five Elms regarding its investments in Userlane*
- Gimv (lead), Panakes, Hadean, Cambridge Innovation Capital and Seroba (consortium) regarding their investment in and the cross-border flip of Complement Therapeutics*
- Left Lane Capital regarding its investments in GoStudent, Studysmarter, Choco Communications, Yokoy and HTC Heritage Type*
- Ocean 14 Capital regarding its investment in goodcarbon*
- Piva Capital (lead) and Copec WIND Ventures regarding their investments in INERATEC*
- Redpoint Ventures regarding its investment in Restate*
- Unusual Ventures and Spark Capital (both leads in different financing rounds) regarding their investments in Qdrant Solutions*
- Rose Park regarding a German investment*
- Sands Capital regarding its investment in Hawk AI*
*prior to joining Herbert Smith Freehills
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