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Dr. Oliver Kirschner
Dr. Oliver Kirschner

Dr. Oliver Kirschner

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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
2002 Admitted as a lawyer, Düsseldorf
2001 Second state examination, Hamburg
2001 – 2003 Doctoral degree, Universität in Mainz
1998 – 1999 Studies, Hochschule für Sprache und Kultur, Peking
1998 First state examination, Regensburg
1993 – 1998 Degree in law, Universität Regensburg

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
1998 – 1999 Studies, Hochschule für Sprache und Kultur, Peking
1998 First state examination, Regensburg
1993 – 1998 Degree in law, Universität Regensburg

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

English

Awards

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2025

Featured

Best lawyers: Mergers and acquisitions law

Legal 500 2025

Recommended lawyer for Healthcare and life sciences

JUVE Handbook 2024/2025

Frequently recommended lawyer for M&A

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2024

Leading individual: Mergers and Acquisitions Law

Ranked lawyer for Healthcare

Frequently recommended lawyer for M&A

Leading individual: Mergers and Acquisitions Law

Ranked with Chambers and Partners for Healthcare (Germany)

Key lawyer for Healthcare

Frequently recommended: M&A

Leading individual: Mergers and acquisitions

Frequently recommended lawyer for M&A

Frequently recommended: M&A healthcare

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.

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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.

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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
Thanos Rammos, LL.M.
Dr. Daniel Tietjen

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Top Level Change at Taylor Wessing Germany: Olaf Kranz elected as new Managing Partner

30 April 2018

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