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Venture capital

Taylor Wessing

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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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  • 'Well-positioned and organized teams across national borders. Pleasant sparring partners who think outside the box.'

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.

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Jens Wolf
Taylor Wessing
Partner  Jens Wolf heads up the Venture-Capital Group of Taylor Wessing in Germany. He advises national and foreign companies on all matters relating to M&A, venture-capital, and private-equity transactions. In that respect, he focuses on advising private-equity funds, venture-capital investors, and technology-driven companies. He has been supporting start-ups and investors in more than 500 transactions, from business-angel investments to unicorn funding rounds with a volume of several hundred million euros. Together with his team, he routinely acts for his clients in the entire “investment life cycle” - from a company’s formation to its exit. Jens teaches corporate finance and venture capital at the HAW Hamburg and at the Bucerius Law School Hamburg.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Jens Wolf, Norman Röchert

Other key lawyers

Hassan Sohbi, Peter Hellich, Armin Bartsch

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