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Corporate/M&A - Germany
What the Team is Known For
Taylor Wessing boasts a strong transactional focus, advising on a range of deal types including mergers, joint ventures, private equity work and takeovers. The firm's clientele includes a number of domestic and international clients from the IT and automotive industries as well as financial investors. The team often collaborates with the firm's offices in the UK and the EU.
Strengths
Taylor Wessing were able to find a good solution and understood the business side as well; the lawyers understood what was important commercially. They worked really hard to get things done.
For issues of importance, Taylor Wessing are worth their weight in gold.
Work Highlights
Taylor Wessing advised Q_PERIOR on the EUR330 million planned merger with Wavestone.
Notable practitioners
Klaus Grossman heads the firm's corporate/M&A practice and is a key point of contact.
Michael-Florian Ranft heads the international China group at Taylor Wessing. He is highly versed in advising Chinese clients on transactions in Germany and regularly assists German companies with their business activities in China. This includes corporate governance of Chinese subsidiaries, joint venture transactions and market entries.