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Dr. Armin Bartsch
Dr. Armin Bartsch

Dr. Armin Bartsch

Salary Partner

  • Berlin Allemagne
+49 30 885636 0
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Prix à l'honneur

Legal 500 2026

“Armin Bartsch is one of the key figures of Taylor Wessing’s Tier 1 venture capital practice”,

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Armin is a Salary Partner and has extensive experience in the areas of venture capital (in particular financing rounds and exits), as well as the establishment and expansion of digital business models by company builders and consulting firms.

In addition, he has proven expertise in complex M&A transactions and joint ventures and frequently advises on the interface between Start-Ups and Corporates.

Armin is also particularly familiar with the establishment and expansion of renowned consulting firms and their business activities. 

He is regularly recommended as "venture capital and M&A specialist" and specialist for setting up and expanding digital business models. He is also regarded as a key figure (Legal500 2026) in Taylor Wessing’s venture capital practice, which is ranked Tier 1 by Juve, Chambers and Legal500.

In 2025, Armin and team were recognized by the Bundesverband M&A with the renowned Deal of the Year Award for advising the lead investors General Catalyst, Lightspeed and Accel in the EUR 600 million financing round of defence-tech company Helsing

Expertise

Services et Groupes

Capital-risque
Fusions et acquisitions d’entreprises et marchés financiers internationaux
Fusions-acquisitions & joint ventures

Secteurs

Technologie, Médias et Communications (TMC)
Automobile et mobilité
Fintech
eCommerce & marketplaces

CV

Since 2022 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
2013 - 2022 as of 2013 Associate, as of 2019 Associated Partner, Noerr
2009 - 2013 Research assistant, Noerr
2009 - 2010 Research assistant, chair for European Law, University of Regensburg
2013 Second state examination, Regensburg, established as a lawyer
2009 - 2013 Doctoral thesis on Russian Energy and Investment law
2002 - 2008 Studies of law at the University of Regensburg including 2 years of studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Carrière

Since 2022 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
2013 - 2022 as of 2013 Associate, as of 2019 Associated Partner, Noerr
2009 - 2013 Research assistant, Noerr
2009 - 2010 Research assistant, chair for European Law, University of Regensburg

Formation

2013 Second state examination, Regensburg, established as a lawyer
2009 - 2013 Doctoral thesis on Russian Energy and Investment law
2002 - 2008 Studies of law at the University of Regensburg including 2 years of studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Publications

Restrictions of foreign investment in the Russian Federation in the field of utilization of oil and gas deposits on subsoil plots of federal significance, LIT Verlag 2015 (doctoral thesis)

Langues étrangères

English Russian

Prix et distinctions

Legal 500 2026

Featured

“Armin Bartsch is one of the key figures of Taylor Wessing’s Tier 1 venture capital practice”,

Legal 500 2026

Recommended Lawyer for Private Equity: Venture Capital

Legal 500 2025

Recommended Lawyer for Venture Capital

Legal 500 2025

Recommended key lawyer for Private Equity: Venture Capital

Key lawyer for M&A

Key lawyer for Private Equity: Venture Capital

Recommended key lawyer for Corporate M&A

Recommended key lawyer for Private Equity: Venture Capital

"Venture capital and M&A specialist", inter alia for "financing rounds, exits/buy-outs and advice on the development and expansion of digital business models"

“Armin Bartsch is very organized and always attentive”

Experience

BlackFin Capital Partners

BlackFin Capital Partners: Advising the French PE-/VC-Fund BlackFin Capital Partners , on various further investments in Germany, inter alia in Hawk, FINLEX and Hypatos (ongoing since 2021)

Dr. Armin Bartsch

General Catalyst, Lightspeed and Accel

Advising these three investors as lead-investors on their in-vestment in Helsing in a EUR 600 million Series D Financing Round (2025)

Dr. Armin Bartsch

Cherry Ventures, Balderton and Leitmotif

Advising these three investors as lead-investors on their investment in the fusion energy-start-up Proxima Fusion in a EUR 130 million Series A Financing Round (2025)

Dr. Armin Bartsch

Simon Kucher

Implantation of a new corporate governance incl. signing of a shareholders’ agreement (2024) and on various corporate law aspects (ongoing since 2022)

Dr. Armin Bartsch

BlackFin Capital Partners

Advising the French PE-/VC-Fund BlackFin Capital Partners as lead-investor on its investment in Aufinity in a USD 26 million Series C Financing Round (2025)

Dr. Armin Bartsch

Advising a Belgian Top-30 company

Advising a Belgian Top-30 company regarding the development of a new digital business model in cooperation with the corporate venture builder BCG X and an invest-ment by BCG X (ongoing)

Dr. Armin Bartsch

General Catalyst

Advising General Catalyst, one of the worldwide leading growth capital investors with excess of USD 30 billion in assets under management, as lead investor on its investment in Helsing in a EUR 450 million Series C Financing Round (2024) and in a $223 million Series B Financing Round (2023)

Dr. Armin Bartsch

Leitmotif

Advising Leitmotif, an independent venture capital firm backed by European industrial interests that actively bridges the innovation ecosystems of the U.S. and Europe, as lead-investor on its investment in DeepDrive in a EUR 30 million Series B Financing Round (2024)

Dr. Armin Bartsch

thyssenkrupp

Advising thyssenkrupp on Fleet’s investment in carValoo, a subsidiary of thyssenkrupp (2023)

Dr. Armin Bartsch

Ontario Teachers‘ Pension Plan (OTPP)

Advising OTPP as lead-investor on its investment in instagrid, Europe's leading provider of high-performance portable battery systems, in a $95 million Series C Financing Round (2023)

Dr. Armin Bartsch

Financing Round of McMakler

Advising Frog, Mutschler and Piton on follow-on investments in McMakler in a EUR 20 million Financing Round (2023)

Dr. Armin Bartsch

OnePeak

Advising OnePeak, one of the leading European growth capital investors with excess of USD 2 billion in assets under management, as lead investor on its investment in Hygraph in a USD 30 million Series B Financing Round (2023)

Dr. Armin Bartsch

Balderton Capital

Advising Balderton Capital, a London based leading venture capital firm having raised ten funds totaling more than USD 4.5 billion, as lead investor on its investment in deep-set in a USD 30 million Financing Round (2023)

Dr. Armin Bartsch

etventure group*

Providing comprehensive advice to the founders and shareholders on the sale of one of the leading German digitalization companies, etventure, to E&Y
* Client was advised on prior to joining Taylor Wessing

Dr. Armin Bartsch

Jumia Technologies (former Africa Internet Group)*

Advising on a EUR 300 million investment by Axa, Goldman Sachs, MTN, Orange and Rocket Internet
* Client was advised on prior to joining Taylor Wessing

Dr. Armin Bartsch

Rocket Internet*

Advising on the agreement of a strategic partnership in the form of a joint venture, (Asia Internet Holding) with the listed Asian telecommunications provider Ooredoo Q.S.C.
* Client was advised on prior to joining Taylor Wessing

Dr. Armin Bartsch

Almedia

Advising Almedia on the ac-quisition of zave.it (Planic GmbH) (2025)

Dr. Armin Bartsch

BlackFin Capital Partners

Advising the French PE-/VC-Fund BlackFin Capital Partners, one of the leading European growth capital investors with excess of EUR 4 billion in assets under management, on various investments in Germany, inter alia in Hawk, FINLEX and Hypatos (ongoing since 2021)

Dr. Armin Bartsch

Bridgemaker

Advising the leading corporate venture builder within the DACH region on the development and expansion of (digital) business models for its clients in several cases (ongoing since 2020)

Dr. Armin Bartsch

Eleven major German insurance companies*

Providing comprehensive advice to eleven insurance companies on the sale of the building society (“Bausparkasse”) Aachener Bausparkasse AG to Wüstenrot Bausparkasse AG
* Client was advised on prior to joining Taylor Wessing

Dr. Armin Bartsch

Lendico

Lendico: Advising shareholders of Lendico on its sale to ING-DiBa, the first significant acquisition of a fintech start-up by a major German bank
*Client was advised on prior to joining Taylor Wessing

Dr. Armin Bartsch

Common Living

Advising Common Living, the largest co-living operator in North America, on its merger with Habyt, the biggest co-living operator in Europe and Asia (2023)

Dr. Armin Bartsch

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‘Deal of the Year’: Taylor Wessing was honoured with the M&A Award 2025 by the German Mergers & Acquisitions Association (BM&A)

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