Taylor Wessing comprehensively advises investors, venture capital funds and companies on early stage and large-volume financing rounds as well as exits. Clients benefit from the close cooperation with the M&A team as well as a US law firm in transactions in the technology and life sciences sector. The team has further industry expertise in the digital healthcare, fintech, foodtech, cleantech and spacetech segments. Jens Wolf primarily acts on behalf of PE funds, VC investors and technology-oriented companies; Wolf is well versed at the interface between VC and M&A and jointly heads the practice with Norman Röchert, who is experienced in capital markets law, VC and M&A. Armin Bartsch (financing rounds, exits/buy-outs as well as advice on setting up and expanding digital business models) joined the team as a salary partner in October 2022; he was previously at Noerr.
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Key clients
- Accel Ventures
- Advastore SE
- Arive
- Chrono24
- Claret Capital Partners
- Common Living Inc.
- DeepL SE
- Faber Capital
- Flink
- General Catalyst
- Google Ventures
- Gradient Ventures
- Hawk Ai GmbH
- HHLA Next GmbH
- Index Ventures
- Kiko Ventures
- OMERS Ventures
- One Peak
- Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board
- Patient21 SE
- Protembis
- REWE Group
- Sennder Technologies GmbH
- SET Ventures
- SF Beteiligungs GmbH & Co KG
- Sony Ventures
- Talent Brands Group LLC
- The Exploration Company
- ThyssenKrupp
- Trill Impact Ventures
- Viola Credit
- Visionaries Club Seed Fund und Visionaries Club Growth Fund
- Xempus AG
Work highlights
- Advising DeepL, a provider of AI communications, on a financing round that increases the valuation to approximately €1 billion.
- Advising the healthtech start-up Patient 21 on a Series C financing round, consisting of an equity and a venture debt component, as well as on the conversion into an SE.
- Advising investor OMERS Ventures on a €400 million Series D financing round in wefox, a Berlin-based InsurTech unicorn.
