CMS
Client Satisfaction
CMS‘s venture capital team advises start-ups and company founders on the entire VC value chain, including founding, financing rounds and venture debt, late-stage venture capital and growth capital transactions as well as exits. Investors also instruct the practice on investments and buy & build matters. The diverse team covers all sectors, with a recent focus on the life sciences, healthcare, technology, digitisation, energy and sustainability segments. The team is jointly led by Stefan-Ulrich Müller (sector focus on biotechnology, medical technology, software and e-commerce) and Jörg Zätzsch,who frequently advises on exits. Florian Plagemann made partner in January 2023 and advises companies on M&A transactions and start-up financing rounds; counsel Friedrich von Spee regularly advises start-ups.
Testimonials
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'The collaboration with CMS Germany was excellent, we felt we were very well advised.'
'International law firm that covers the necessary specialist areas in many countries with hands-on involvement from all partners.'
Key clients
- Circularity Capital
- coparion
Work highlights
- Advising Tubulis on the €60 million Series B financing round of the Munich-based biotech company, which is developing technologies for the production of novel and particularly stable antibody-drug compounds.
- Advising the Haufe Group on the sale of the tax start-up Steuerbot to the tax platform Taxfix.