Noerr‘s cross-practice approach draws on relevant regulatory, digital business, data protection and tax law expertise in the comprehensive advice to investors, companies and start-ups on venture capital matters, including early-stage financing as well as exit and capital market law issues. The transaction support is a particular strength, where the team frequently cooperates with the locations in New York and London on cross-border matters. This is complemented by expertise in corporate venture capital advice thanks to the firm’s overall focus on medium-sized business suppport. The team is led by Christian Pleister (investments, transactions) and Georg Christoph Schneider (transactions, investments, restructurings).

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Testimonials

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  • 'We have been working with Felix Blobel and his team at Noerr for several years. During this time they have advised us on a range of complex and highly technical matters. Their service and the quality of their work is second to none.'

  • 'The team is characterized by outstanding market knowledge and well-founded and communicative support for projects. For every project supported, a negotiation result was achieved that was above the market comparison.'

  • 'Particularly targeted, professional, very competent legal advice and design, including tax, timely on the point, very client-oriented. Always available.'

  • 'Georg Christoph Schneider: Highly competent, objective, highly professional, careful, very experienced in tax law.'

Key clients

  • 468 Capital
  • Capital 49 Fund/FOMCAP IV LP
  • Cusp Capital
  • Disruptive Technologies Advisers
  • Dragoneer
  • Factory 14
  • GetSafe
  • Global Founders Capital
  • heyacar
  • Incari GmbH
  • Mass Mutual Ventures
  • Picus Capital
  • Laureus Capital GmbH
  • Parkhill Ventures
  • Viola Credit
  • Qubit9 GmbH

Work highlights

  • Advising Laureus Capital on the Series B financing of the biotech company Ethris GmbH.
  • Advising Viola Credit on a venture debt financing of Everstores, a Shopfiy D2C aggregator.
  • Advising Parkhill Ventures in connection with the market entry of a US seed fund/accelerator in Germany.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Christian Pleister, Georg Christoph Schneider