Dr. Jens Wolf

Prix à l'honneur

JUVE 2025/2026

Leading individual for Venture Capital

Jens heads up the Venture-Capital Group of Taylor Wessing in Germany. He advises national and foreign companies on all matters relating to M&A, venture-capital, and private-equity transactions. In that respect, he focuses on advising private-equity funds, venture-capital investors, and technology-driven companies.

He has been supporting start-ups and investors in more than 500 transactions, from business-angel investments to unicorn funding rounds with a volume of several hundred million euros. Together with his team, he routinely acts for his clients in the entire “investment life cycle” - from a company’s formation to its exit. Jens teaches corporate finance and venture capital at the HAW Hamburg and at the Bucerius Law School Hamburg.

CV

Since 2006 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2002 – 2006 Associate, Taylor Wessing

Since 2011 Lecturer, HAW Hamburg (Corporate Finance & Venture Capital)

Carrière

Since 2006 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2002 – 2006 Associate, Taylor Wessing

Since 2011 Lecturer, HAW Hamburg (Corporate Finance & Venture Capital)

Formation

2002 Established as a lawyer, Hamburg

2002 Doctoral degree, Universität Hamburg

2002 Second state examination, Hamburg

Publications

Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen der Unternehmens- und Projektfinanzierung für IT-Unternehmen, Vortrag Fortbildung für FAe für IT-Recht, Hamburg, 2009

Die Haftung des Kommanditisten beim Formwechsel in die GmbH, in: ZIP - Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht 1996, S. 1200-1205

Thronerbe gesucht - Unternehmensverkauf: Das ist zu tun, Offensive 2/2007, S. 10

Funktion und Nutzen der rechtlichen Beratung bei der Kapitalbeschaffung, Vortrag Seminar Unternehmensfinanzierung, Würzburg, 2006

Strategic Partnerships, The American Lawyer, May 2006, p. 208

Corporate Governance für den Mittelstand, WAR 2004, S. 167-172

Von der Gründung bis zum Börsengang (Mitautor), in: Praxishandbuch Multimedia, Stuttgart 2002

Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts als Wettbewerbsunternehmen, Köln (Heymanns), 2002

Die Rechtsnatur des Finanzierungsleasings, in: JuS 2002, S. 335 f.

Groupes & Associations

Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristen-Vereinigung e.V.

Langues étrangères

Prix et distinctions

JUVE 2025/2026

Featured

JUVE 2025/2026

Legal 500 2025

Experience

Advising sennder on billion-dollar joint venture with Poste Italiane

Europe's market-leading digital freight carrier sennder Technologies GmbH and Italy's leading postal service provider, Poste Italiane S.p.a, are deepening their cooperation and a Taylor Wessing team led by Hamburg partner Dr Jens Wolf advised sennder on all legal aspects of the transaction.

Press release

Dr. Jens Wolf

Dr. Niclas von Woedtke, MBA (Kellogg/ WHU)

Philipp Hoegl

Felix Paul, LL.M.

Advising seller on sale of marmalade GmbH and Makaira GmbH to ECOMMERCE ONE

marmalade GmbH, one of Germany's leading e-commerce agencies, and Makaira GmbH, a provider of an e-commerce marketing suite for online retail, have been sold by marmalade Group GmbH to ECOMMERCE ONE Group.

Press release

Dr. Jens Wolf

Dr. Wiebke Baars, LL.M.

Dr. Tobias Schelinski

Dr. Jens Wiesner, LL.M. (Chicago)

Sven Kahlert

Philipp Hoegl