CMS Hasche Sigle // Venture Capital
CMS Hasche Sigle // Venture Capital
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<strong>Venture</strong> <strong>Capital</strong>
<strong>Venture</strong> <strong>Capital</strong> at <strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong><br />
Providing comprehensive advice on venture capital transactions<br />
is a core strength of <strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong>.<br />
The prestigious JUVE Handbook has long ranked our<br />
experienced team among Germany’s top venture capital<br />
practices. We advise our clients throughout the acquisition<br />
process, from initial investment to financing rounds and<br />
(cross-border) restructuring of VC-financed companies<br />
through to exit.<br />
Competitive advantages that<br />
separate us from the rest<br />
— Our venture capital team has carved out a pioneering<br />
role for itself in the market by developing new and<br />
innovative solutions, setting new standards along the<br />
way.<br />
— Rather than being a venture capital boutique focused<br />
purely on transactions, we have in-depth expertise in all<br />
relevant legal areas.<br />
— The special strengths of our practice include detailed<br />
expertise in dynamic sectors such as biotech, cleantech,<br />
IT, medtech, pharmaceuticals and telecommunications.<br />
— The full breadth and depth of this expertise is immediately<br />
available at all our German locations.<br />
<strong>Venture</strong> <strong>Capital</strong><br />
— Our lawyers have strong relationships with the key deal<br />
facilitators in the market.<br />
— As an integral part of <strong>CMS</strong>, the leading organisation of<br />
European law and tax firms, we offer direct access to<br />
offices in 53 locations and 28 jurisdictions.<br />
— Strong partner involvement guarantees continuity,<br />
reliability and efficiency, plus smooth workflows<br />
throughout the <strong>CMS</strong> organisation.<br />
— We are committed to tailor-made, pragmatic solutions as<br />
well as effective – and cost-effective – advice.<br />
A broad practice with experience across all market segments and a leading<br />
position in the VC market.<br />
JUVE<br />
<strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong><br />
P + P Pöllath + Partners<br />
SJ Berwin<br />
Taylor Wessing<br />
Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek<br />
Lovells<br />
MLawGroup<br />
Weitnauer Rechtsanwälte<br />
JUVE
Flips / re-flips<br />
<strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong> offers extensive expertise in all relevant legal areas.<br />
Incentive programmes<br />
Portfolio restructuring<br />
PIPE transactions<br />
IPOs<br />
Labor, Employment<br />
& Pensions<br />
Corporate<br />
<strong>Venture</strong><br />
<strong>Capital</strong><br />
transaction<br />
A leading firm for private equity and venture capital, with one of the broadest<br />
practices in the market. <strong>CMS</strong> has long had one of the best VC teams in the market.<br />
Its VC lawyers have enjoyed repeated success.<br />
Energy and environment<br />
Tax<br />
<strong>Capital</strong> Markets Competition and EU<br />
State subsidies<br />
JUVE<br />
JUVE<br />
Secondaries<br />
Knowledge protection<br />
Emerging technologies<br />
Regulatory aspects
<strong>CMS</strong> – National and<br />
international expertise<br />
Corporate success is based on translating ideas into reality, secure in the knowledge<br />
that they can be implemented lawfully. <strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong> is always at your side<br />
in Germany to provide expert, proactive advice.<br />
From mid-sized companies to major groups, we leverage the expertise of more<br />
than 600 lawyers, tax consultants and notaries at nine German locations to<br />
assist our clients with all aspects of national and international commercial law.<br />
— <strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong> is a member of <strong>CMS</strong>, the organisation<br />
of major independent European law firms and tax<br />
consultancies serving companies operating in Europe or<br />
those that wish to extend their activities to Europe.<br />
— We have 53 offices in 28 countries, primarily in Western<br />
and Central Europe, giving us comprehensive knowledge<br />
of local legal, taxation and economic issues. As a result,<br />
we are able to offer our clients services at local level<br />
which are tailored to their specific needs.<br />
— <strong>CMS</strong> benefits from one of the strongest international<br />
networks of offices. In jurisdictions where <strong>CMS</strong> does<br />
not have its own offices, we have been working<br />
successfully with partner firms within the World Law<br />
Group since 1988 and are a founder member of the<br />
Group.<br />
— In the case of cross-border transactions, a <strong>CMS</strong> partner<br />
will be happy to handle coordination of the various<br />
teams to ensure maximum efficiency.<br />
An impressive year for a firm that has been raising its standards on all counts. Not only has<br />
the corporate practice, one of the largest in Germany, maintained its performance with<br />
another very good year, but there were some surprising developments that showed a firm in<br />
full flight and going places.<br />
The Lawyer Awards<br />
<strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong> is the leading law firm in Germany for mid-cap acquisitions.<br />
Financial Times Deutschland
Casablanca<br />
Seville<br />
Bristol<br />
Edinburgh<br />
Madrid<br />
Marbella<br />
São Paulo<br />
Buenos Aires<br />
Montevideo<br />
Aberdeen<br />
London<br />
Paris<br />
Amsterdam<br />
Utrecht<br />
Antwerp<br />
Brussels<br />
Lyon<br />
Algiers<br />
Luxembourg<br />
Strasbourg<br />
Duesseldorf<br />
Cologne<br />
Zurich<br />
Frankfurt<br />
Milan<br />
Munich<br />
<strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong> offices<br />
<strong>CMS</strong> offices and associated offices<br />
Hamburg<br />
Stuttgart<br />
Berlin<br />
Leipzig<br />
Ljubljana<br />
Rome<br />
Dresden<br />
Prague<br />
Vienna Bratislava<br />
Zagreb<br />
Beijing<br />
Shanghai<br />
Warsaw<br />
Budapest<br />
Sarajevo<br />
Belgrade<br />
Sofia<br />
Bucharest<br />
Kyiv<br />
Moscow
Your <strong>Venture</strong> <strong>Capital</strong> contacts<br />
Berlin<br />
Dr Jörg Zätzsch<br />
<strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong><br />
Lennéstrasse 7<br />
10785 Berlin<br />
T +49 30 20360 2701<br />
E joerg.zaetzsch@cms-hs.com<br />
Dresden<br />
Dr Helmut Schwarz<br />
<strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong><br />
An der Dreikönigskirche 10<br />
01097 Dresden<br />
T +49 351 82644 0<br />
E helmut.schwarz@cms-hs.com<br />
Duesseldorf<br />
Dr Ernst-Markus Schuberth<br />
<strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong><br />
Breite Strasse 3<br />
40213 Duesseldorf<br />
T +49 211 4934 202<br />
E ernst-markus.schuberth@cms-hs.com<br />
Frankfurt / Main<br />
Dr Joachim Dietrich<br />
<strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong><br />
Barckhausstrasse 12 – 16<br />
60325 Frankfurt / Main<br />
T + 49 69 71701 316<br />
E joachim.dietrich@cms-hs.com<br />
Katja Pohl<br />
<strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong><br />
Barckhausstrasse 12 – 16<br />
60325 Frankfurt am Main<br />
T + 49 69 71701 345<br />
E katja.pohl@cms-hs.com<br />
Hamburg<br />
Dr Heino Büsching<br />
<strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong><br />
Stadthausbrücke 1 – 3<br />
20355 Hamburg<br />
T + 49 40 37630 260<br />
E heino.buesching@cms-hs.com<br />
Dr Henrik Drinkuth<br />
<strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong><br />
Stadthausbrücke 1 – 3<br />
20355 Hamburg<br />
T + 49 40 37630 327<br />
E henrik.drinkuth@cms-hs.com<br />
Leipzig<br />
Eckhart Braun<br />
<strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong><br />
Augustusplatz 9<br />
04109 Leipzig<br />
T +49 341 21672 22<br />
E eckhart.braun@cms-hs.com<br />
Munich<br />
Stefan-Ulrich Müller<br />
<strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong><br />
Nymphenburger Strasse 12<br />
80335 Munich<br />
T + 49 89 23807 197<br />
E stefan-ulrich.mueller@cms-hs.com<br />
Dr Ulrich Springer<br />
<strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong><br />
Nymphenburger Strasse 12<br />
80335 Munich<br />
T + 49 89 23807 249<br />
E ulrich.springer@cms-hs.com<br />
Stuttgart<br />
Dr Regine Hagen-Eck<br />
<strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong><br />
Schöttlestrasse 8<br />
70597 Stuttgart<br />
T + 49 711 9764 408<br />
E regine.hagen-eck@cms-hs.com
VC highlights<br />
Lifesciences<br />
— LSP Life Sciences Partners | Series A round of financing<br />
for Curetis AG<br />
— VRP <strong>Venture</strong> <strong>Capital</strong> Rheinland-Pfalz | Financing<br />
for Signature Diagnostics AG; round of financing for<br />
Phenex AG<br />
— Alta Partners, LSP Life Sciences Partners, Atlas<br />
<strong>Venture</strong> | Sale of U3 Pharma AG to Daiichi Sankyo<br />
— HBM Bio<strong>Venture</strong>s | Financing rounds for mtm<br />
laboratories AG<br />
— Heidelberg Innovation | PIPE investment in<br />
Biofrontera AG<br />
— MediCyte GmbH | Investment by Prinz von Hohenzollern<br />
<strong>Capital</strong> and round of financing<br />
— invendo medical GmbH | Fourth round of financing<br />
with Wellington Partners and TVM as new investors<br />
— IBG Beteiligungsfonds | Round of financing for, and<br />
investment in, Revotar Pharmaceuticals<br />
— Wellington Partners | Acquisition of a stake in<br />
immatics biotechnologies GmbH<br />
— Vita 34 International AG | Pre-IPO round of financing<br />
and advising on IPO<br />
— Micromet AG | Pre-IPO restructuring and reverse<br />
takeover of CancerVax Corp.<br />
— 3i | Pre-IPO financing and advising on IPO of Santhera<br />
Pharmaceuticals AG<br />
— 3i, Aurelia Private Equity, BC <strong>Venture</strong> | Merger of<br />
Combinature Biopharm AG with MerLion<br />
Pharmaceuticals Pte. Ltd., Singapore<br />
— Aescap <strong>Venture</strong> | Third round of financing for<br />
Affectis Pharmaceuticals AG<br />
— B.R.A.I.N. AG | Largest financing rounds in the field<br />
of industrial biotechnology<br />
— Various investors | Round of financing for<br />
Hepa Wash GmbH<br />
— EMBL <strong>Venture</strong>s | Investment in Elara Pharmaceuticals<br />
GmbH, Lipid Therapeutics GmbH and Fibrex Medical, Inc.<br />
— JPKinstruments | AG Round of financing<br />
— KeyNeurotek Pharmaceuticals AG | Round of financing<br />
— novosom AG | Round of financing<br />
IT / Software / Internet<br />
— ViewPoint <strong>Capital</strong> Partners | Investment in acrolinx<br />
GmbH<br />
— GD Gameduell GmbH | Round of financing with<br />
Wellington Partners<br />
— Winbox Technologies AG | Three rounds of growth<br />
financing and pre-IPO restructuring<br />
— LBBW <strong>Venture</strong> <strong>Capital</strong> | Investment in Check Mobile<br />
GmbH<br />
— BayTech <strong>Venture</strong> <strong>Capital</strong> | Investment in Corporate<br />
Computer Lease Ltd. and Ubidyne Inc.<br />
— mimoOn GmbH | Financing rounds<br />
— Open-Xchange AG | Series C financing by BayTech,<br />
eCAPITAL, BayBG and other investors<br />
— Aurelia Private Equity, European Founders Fund<br />
and United Internet Beteiligungen GmbH | Sale of<br />
shares in BIGPOINT GmbH to a group of investors<br />
— 3i | Investment in Webpay AG and BuyVIP<br />
Cleantech<br />
— BayTech <strong>Venture</strong> <strong>Capital</strong> | Investment in inge<br />
watertechnologies AG and EnOcean GmbH<br />
— FutureE Fuel Cell Solutions GmbH | Investment by<br />
LBBW <strong>Venture</strong> <strong>Capital</strong><br />
Secondaries<br />
— 3i | Sale of a VC portfolio to Cipio Partners<br />
— 3i | Sale of a VC portfolio to Heidelberg<strong>Capital</strong><br />
— Cipio Partners | Acquisition of a VC portfolio from<br />
Siemens AG<br />
— DaimlerChrysler <strong>Venture</strong> | Sale of VC portfolio<br />
to Cipio Partners
© <strong>CMS</strong> <strong>Hasche</strong> <strong>Sigle</strong> (January 2011)<br />
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