Hassan Sohbi – Partner

Hassan Sohbi is a member of the Corporate Department and specialises in all issues of corporate investment and financing, in particular national and international private equity and venture capital transactions. He advises national and international clients on matters of company law and capital markets law including stock exchange listings and takeover law. As a member of the Inward Investment Group he also advises international enterprises, especially US-based technology companies, on their investments in Germany.

Hassan Sohbi studied law with a focus on corporate and capital markets law in Frankfurt am Main, where he sat the first legal state exam in 1991. He passed the second state exam in Frankfurt in 1994 and was admitted to the bar in 1995.

Hassan Sohbi is a founding member and member of the board of Business Angels FrankfurtRheinMain e.V. He publishes regularly, in particular on investment issues (private equity, venture capital) and capital market topics (takeover law, privatisations, corporate governance) and is quoted regularly on these topics in the international specialist press. Hassan Sohbi is a co-commentator of the WpÜG (German Takeover Act) in Anwaltskommentar Aktienrecht und Kapitalmarkrecht and a commentator of §§ 783 et seq. BGB (German Civil Code) in Anwaltskommentar Schuldrecht.

Native language: German, English.

Taylor Wessing Practices

• Corporate
• Finance

Taylor Wessing Industries

• Private Capital

Areas of Expertise

• Acquisition finance
• Capital markets, structured finance and derivatives
• Islamic finance
• Islamic funds
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Private Equity
• Public company and initial public offers
• Venture Capital