Jan is a chamber qualified expert lawyer for commercial and corporate law (Fachanwalt für Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht) and a specialist in the areas of M&A and private equity.
He advises strategic and financial investors as well as family-managed companies from Germany and abroad on corporate transactions, reorganisation measures and corporate structuring. Jan regularly represents real estate companies in their corporate real estate matters, including advising on share deals, international joint ventures and holding structures. He further has industry expertise in life sciences transactions.
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Career
| Since 2009 | Partner, Taylor Wessing |
| 2004 – 2009 | Associate, Taylor Wessing |
| 2003 – 2004 | Knowledge Management, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer |
| 2001 – 2002 | Legal clerkship, Kiel and Hamburg |
Education
| 2005 | Doctoral degree on the application of information and communications technology in insolvency proceedings, CAU Kiel |
| 2003 | Admitted as a lawyer, Hamburg |
| 2002 | Second state examination, combined examination board of Hamburg/Bremen/Schleswig-Holstein |
| 1999 | First state examination, Schleswig |
| 1996 | Overseas semester, University of Surrey/England |
| 1994 – 1999 | Degree in law, CAU Kiel |
Memberships & Associations
| BVK Bundesverband Deutscher Kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaften |
Additional languages
| English |
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