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Robert Wethmar, LL.M. (NYU)
Robert Wethmar, LL.M. (NYU)

Robert Wethmar, LL.M. (NYU)

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Robert advises on national and cross-border M&A transactions as well as joint ventures. His clients include numerous international technology companies and he also advises a large number of family businesses on governance and succession issues. Robert is Dutch and Honorary Consul for the Netherlands in Hamburg as well as chairman of the supervisory board of OHB SE, a leading German space technology company.

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Over the past 10 years, we've built a trusted legal team in San Francisco, focused on technology, media and communciation, life sciences and healthcare, real estate, private wealth, and private equity. Supported by colleagues in the UK and Europe, we also offer deep expertise in M&A, international growth, commercial deals, and data privacy.

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CV

Since 1997 Partner, Taylor Wessing
1994 – 1997 Associate, Taylor Wessing
1992 – 1994 Associate, Freshfields (formerly Bruckhaus Westrick Stegemann)
1993 Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law, New York
1992 Admitted as a lawyer, Hamburg
1992 LL.M., New York University
1991 Second state examination, Berlin
1988 First state examination, Hamburg

Career

Since 1997 Partner, Taylor Wessing
1994 – 1997 Associate, Taylor Wessing
1992 – 1994 Associate, Freshfields (formerly Bruckhaus Westrick Stegemann)

Education

1993 Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law, New York
1992 Admitted as a lawyer, Hamburg
1992 LL.M., New York University
1991 Second state examination, Berlin
1988 First state examination, Hamburg

Memberships & Associations

M&A Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association (ABA)
Deutsch-Niederländische Rechtsanwaltsvereinigung

Additional languages

English French Dutch

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Leading individual: Corporate Law

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"professional excellence and assertiveness, but taking into account the interests of the other side", competitor

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Law Firm of the Year for Succession, Wealth, Foundations

Leading individual: Corporate Law

Global Leader - Foreign Investment Review 2022

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Leading individual: Corporate

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Frequently recommended: Corporate Law

Frequently recommended: Corporate and M&A

Experience

The shareholders and founders of Velox GmbH on its sale to IMCD Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG

The shareholders and founders of the chemical distributor, Velox GmbH, on the sale of 100% of their shares in Velox to IMCD Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, a subsidiary of the Dutch company, IMCD N.V., the global leader in the sales, marketing and distribution of speciality chemicals and food ingredients. Velox, founded in 1993, is one of Europe's leading distributors of specialty raw materials for the plastics, composites, additives, caoutchouc, paints and coatings industries.

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