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Taylor Wessing
BENRATHER STRAßE 15
40213 DÜSSELDORF
Germany

Work Department

Corporate, M&A

Position

Partner 

Klaus Grossmann heads up the German M&A practice group and specialises in cross-border M&A transactions and joint ventures. He has many years of expert experience in advising companies and shareholders on all matters concerning corporate law as well as in advising bodies of corporations.

Klaus possesses excellent know-how about the logistics sector, the chemical industry, and the automotive industry.

Among his clients are German small and medium-sized enterprises as well as international group companies with their registered office in Germany and abroad.

Career

  • Since 2009 Partner, Taylor Wessing
  • 1997 – 2009 Partner, Clifford Chance
  • 1992 – 1997 Partner, Wessing Berenberg–Gossler Zimmermann
  • 1990 – 1992 Associate, Wessing Berenberg–Gossler Zimmermann
  • 1988 – 1990 Foreign Associate, Arnold & Porter

Languages

German, English

Education

  • 1990 Doctoral degree, University of Cologne
  • 1988 Admitted as a lawyer, Düsseldorf
  • 1988 Second state examination, Düsseldorf
  • 1985 First state examination, Cologne

Lawyer Rankings

Germany > Corporate and M&A > M&A

Taylor Wessing advises medium-sized German companies as well as large international corporations from the technology, energy, real estate, life sciences and health sectors on M&A transactions, with the practice’s cross-border capacities being particularly strong in relation to China, the Middle East, the US and Brazil . Practice head Klaus Grossmann is experienced in cross-border M&A and joint ventures and regularly acts for companies in the logistics, chemical and automotive industries, while Michael Stein primarily assists clients in the life sciences and healthcare sectors and Peter Hellich focuses on the technology industry. In May 2023, four partners joined Gowling WLG: M&A and capital markets lawyers Lars-Gerrit Lüßmann and Ulrich Reers, M&A and joint venture specialist Michael Sinhart as well as Michael Lamsa, who is experienced in private equity. Venture capital and M&A specialist Armin Bartsch had previously joined from Noerr in October 2022.

Germany > Corporate and M&A > Corporate

Taylor Wessing‘s corporate expertise is drawn upon by German medium-sized companies and international corporations in the technology, media, communications, real estate, energy and life sciences sectors seeking advice on restructuring, carve-outs, transactions and joint ventures as well as general meetings. Klaus Grossmann leads the team and is mainly active in M&A transactions and joint ventures, but also has longstanding experience in advising companies and corporate bodies on corporate law. Lars-Gerrit Lüßmann (stock corporations and capital markets law), Michael Sinhart (focus on international and national transactions within the infrastructure sector) and Michael Lamsa (private equity transactions) joined Gowling WLG in spring 2023.