Michael advises on M&A, private equity, venture capital and corporate law.
He has many years of experience with a particular focus on advising private equity clients, VC clients, private companies, as well as publicly listed companies on complex domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, private equity transactions and corporate law issues. Furthermore, he has a focus on venture capital and advises start-ups and their investors during financing rounds and beyond.
Michael is listed by Legal 500 2024 as a "Rising Star" in the private equity/venture capital sector and Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers 2022 listed him as "Ones to Watch: M&A".
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- Vantage Towers in connection with its extraordinary shareholders' meeting following the contribution of Vodafone’s majority shareholding into a newly set-up Joint Venture of Vodafone, KKR and GIP as well as the following take-private*
- Paulig Group, the international family-owned food and beverage company headquartered in Finland, on the sale of its stake in leading German spice manufacturer Fuchs to the majority shareholders of Fuchs Group*
- Comitis Capital on its acquisition of a majority stake in Cloud7, a leading brand in the premium dog accessories market in Germany, Austria and Switzerland*
- The founder of Herter & Co., a leading independent debt advisory and financial restructuring firm in Frankfurt, on the sale of the company to global financial advisory firm Teneo*
- Holland Capital and its Amsterdam-headquartered portfolio company Emixa, a full-service provider in digital transformation focused on the manufacturing industry, on the acquisition of LMtec Digital Solutions*
- The founders of an online retailer on the sale to a German provider of high-quality upholstered and box-spring beds*
- The shareholders of a Karlsruhe-based translation software company on its acquisition by an American software company*
- a Chinese company on the acquisition of the hydrogen technology business of a Mannheim-based construction and services group*
- a British investment company on the sale of a Hamburg shipyard to a Bremen-based family business*
- a Berlin-based e-commerce group and its founder and CEO on the sale of a majority stake to an American private equity house*
- a Hamburg-based hydrogen company on the receipt of growth capital from London-based private equity investors*
- a German aviation company in a Series E financing round in the triple-digit million-euro range*
- a venture capital investor on an investment into a three-digit million financing round of a Berlin-based FinTech-company*
*prior to joining Herbert Smith Freehills
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