Dr. Oliver Kirschner

Oliver clients include private equity investors, family offices and strategic investors from Germany and abroad, whom he advises on national and cross-border transactions. He is described by his clients as being “very active and strong” in negotiations showing profound knowledge of the market, in which his clients are active, and their priorities and expectations. Other clients emphasize his high level of expertise in healthcare transactions. His core expertise includes the structuring, negotiation and implementation of complex transactions in particular in the highly regulated healthcare sector on both the buy- and sell side including leveraged buyouts and related transactions for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies.

Oliver has regularly lectured on legal topics in the area of healthcare transactions and is co-author of the handbook on medical and healthcare law (Beck'sches Formularbuch Medizin- und Gesundheitsrecht).

Oliver is Co-Head of the German and the International Life Sciences & Healthcare industry group and a member of the M&A and Private Equity practice groups at Taylor Wessing.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Corporate/M&A & capital markets

General corporate

Joint ventures

Sectors

Life sciences & healthcare

Health & social care and investors

CV

Since 2007 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2002 – 2007 Associate, international law firm, Düsseldorf

2005 – 2006 Secondee, Slaughter and May, Hong Kong

Career

Since 2007 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2002 – 2007 Associate, international law firm, Düsseldorf

2005 – 2006 Secondee, Slaughter and May, Hong Kong

Education

2002 Admitted as a lawyer, Düsseldorf

2001 Second state examination, Hamburg

2001 – 2003 Doctoral degree, Universität in Mainz

Publications

Post-Merger Integration und Corporate Governance bei chinesischen Outbound-Investitionen in Deutschland, in: Chinesische Outbound-Investitionen in Deutschland, Hrsg. Von Prof. Yuanshi Bu, 2014“

Kulturelle Besonderheiten bei Verhandlungen und Vertragsmanagement, Unternehmeredition M & A China / Deutschland 2013

Memberships & Associations

Gesellschaftsrechtliche Vereinigung (VGR)

Additional languages

Awards

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2025

Featured

Legal 500 2025

JUVE Handbook 2024/2025

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2024

Experience

Successful financing and add on acquisitions for Oberberg Group

Oberberg Group on the successful refinancing of its existing credit lines. The new financing also served several add-on acquisitions. This included the internationally renowned private clinic Jägerwinkel am Tegernsee, which is expanding the treatment spectrum of the Group with its range of integrative holistic psychosomatics with a focus on interdisciplinary pain therapy. In addition, Panorama Fachklinik, an acute hospital for psychosomatics, and Privatklinik Hubertus im Allgäu, a specialist hospital for psychosomatics, psychotherapy and naturopathy, were acquired.

Press release

Ulf Gosejacob

Sabine Schomaker

Dr. Michael Beyer, Dipl.-Volkswirt

Dr. Oliver Kirschner

Christopher Peine

NORD Holding on the acquisition of Zentrum Gesundheit Group

NORD Holding, a leading private equity house, on the acquisition of the majority interest in Zentrum Gesundheit Group, a leading German group of ophthalmic surgery and diagnostic centres, from Waterland Private Equity. NORD Holding, together with the management and medical team, acquired a stake as a new partner and majority shareholder. In this deal the Taylor Wessing team again demonstrated its interdisciplinary expertise in the areas of healthcare M&A, regulatory and acquisition financing.

Press release

Dr. Oliver Kirschner

Dr. Oliver Klöck

Ulf Gosejacob

Maria Weiers

Dr. Anne Steinhardt

Christopher Peine

Dr. Michael Beyer, Dipl.-Volkswirt

Dr. Vanessa Christin Vollmar

Dr. Lars Hagen

Dr. Marco Hartmann-Rüppel, Dipl.-Volkswirt

Dr. Michael Brüggemann