VC fund investors and healthcare sector clients are among those to frequently instruct LUTZ | ABEL RECHTSANWALTS PARTG MBB for challenging transactions. The team is well equipped to advise on early financing rounds through to exits. Bernhard Noreisch leads the VC practice group and has a number of key investors as repeat clients, as well as assisting with exit transactions and M&A projects. Philipp Hoene acts for investors, start-ups and shareholders, and Marco Eickmann has established a strong reputation for advising on large-scale international financing rounds and multi-seller exit transactions. Financing rounds and mid-cap M&A are both regular features of Lorenz Jellinghaus's workload, with Björn Weidehaas being a key contact for family offices, angel investors, and start-ups. Frank Hahn and Jan-Phillip Kunz are additional contacts to note.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Amazing expertise and outstanding friendliness, it couldn’t be better.’
- ‘Marco Eickmann has deep knowledge and is always available, very responsive and super friendly.’
- ‘Lorenz Jellinghaus is a fantastic lawyer with great understanding of his legal practice, while keeping a practical eye on what really matters for the business. Strong project management skills that help to efficiently guide us through the processes.’
- ‘Philipp Hoene is probably the best lawyer in this field. We are very satisfied with his work.’
- ‘Great knowledge and experience in the venture capital space. Strong communication and project management skills. Always polite, friendly and professional.’
- ‘We work a lot with Philipp Hoene who is an outstanding lawyer. Philipp takes a lot of time to explain us why we need to do things in a certain way but he also understands that we as a tech scale-up must need fast. Philipp's legal paperwork is always top-notch and we already had opposing lawyers congratulating us on the quality of certain legal documents made by Philipp and his team.’
Key clients
- Alphapet Ventures GmbH ambuflow GmbH AMSilk GmbH BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH Bayern Kapital biddz GmbH BonVenture Caesar Ventures Fund I GmbH & Co. KG Cavalry Ventures III GmbH & Co. KG Circula GmbH Cognigy GmbH Compredict GmbH coparion dao GmbH Deep Tech & Climate Fonds GmbH & Co. KG DIGIT4U Group EIT Health e.V. evoila GmbH GOVECS AG Graphit heal.capital I GmbH & Co.KG Holidu GmbH HV Capital Hyperheat GmbH Hypros GmbH Immomio GmbH Invest Unternehmensbeteiligungs AG isfuckingbusy GmbH + Skaw GmbH JUNE GmbH Lassie AB MIG Fonds Neura Robotics GmbH NUNC - Next Level Coffee GmbH One Data GmbH Paul Wurth GmbH Perpetual Investors Peturo GmbH Rebike Mobility GmbH repath GmbH retraced GmbH Round2 Capital Schaeffler AG SEA ME GmbH SEON Holding GmbH Singular Ventures Temedica GmbH Tomorrow Education Group vialytics GmbH Web Inclusion GmbH WenVest Capital GmbH
Work highlights
Advised Cognigy GmbH on its €100m Series C Financing Round.
Advised Neura Robotics GmbH on its €120m Series B financing round.
Advised Bayern Kapital on more than 20 financing rounds and exits in 2024.
Lawyers
Leading partners
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Practice head
Bernhard Noreisch
Other key lawyers
Philipp Hoene; Marco Eickmann; Lorenz Jellinghaus; Björn Weidehaas; Frank Hahn; Jan-Phillip Kunz