Fieldfisher's full-spectrum corporate practice advises on joint venture formation, annual general meetings, and governance matters. The team assists major financial services, investment, retail, entertainment, and tech clients. Jan Hartmann, who heads the department, specialises in cross-border M&A, private equity, restructuring, and corporate disputes across the technology, healthcare, and automotive sectors.
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Accolades

Client satisfaction: Billing & efficiency

Testimonials

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  • ‘Outstanding availability and responsiveness of partners and associates.'
  • ‘Trustworthy, extremely supportive, very high legal competence. It is a pleasure to work with them.’
  • ‘Very good knowledge of the market and its standards, including commercial aspects, proactive, and strong in finding solutions under pressure.’
  • ‘Strong support and collaboration with the client.’
  • ‘Nikolaus Moench is very clear and proactive and helps foreign clients better understand the local laws.’
  • 'Fieldfisher offers top-notch legal service in a variety of fields. So often a particular case will expand into new legal claims and theories, and FF can usually provide any new needed subject-matter expertise from within its own offices.'

Key clients

  • Quintauris GmbH
  • CREDION AG/CREDION Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
  • Nuremberg Institute for Market Decisions e.V.
  • Thunderful Group AB
  • Wunschgutschein GmbH
  • Artivion Inc.
  • DVS Technologies AG
  • Easy Software AG
  • JOB AG

Work highlights

Advised semiconductor manufacturers Robert Bosch GmbH, Infineon Technologies AG, Nordic Semiconductor, NXP Semiconductors and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. on the establishment of Quintauris GmbH to drive the global introduction of the RISC-V ecosystem on an open source basis under one roof.
Advised CREDION on corporate and investment law, including advice to fund sponsors on all corporate and investment law issues and the preparation and realisation of all shareholders' meetings.
Provided comprehensive corporate law advice to a German infrastructure provider in the telecoms sector, including advice on transactions and joint venture agreements.
Practice head

Jan Hartmann

Other key lawyers

Susanne Rückert; Sven Labudda; Nikolaus Moench