Armin is a Salary Partner and has extensive experience in advising companies and investors in the areas of venture capital and complex national and international M&A transactions.
Armin has a particular focus on financing rounds, exits/buy-outs as well as the establishment and expansion of digital business models through company builders and corporate venture builders, especially in the areas of digitalization of services, DeepTech, AI, FinTech, Banking, Prop-Tech, real estate and e-commerce. In addition, he has proven expertise in complex M&A transactions and Joint Ventures and is particularly familiar with the legal support of consulting companies and their business activities.
He also frequently advises on the interface between Start-Ups and Corporates.
Taylor Wessing was recently once again recognised by Legal500 as a Tier 1 law firm for both venture capital and M&A transactions (deal volumes up to EUR 100 million) and Armin Bartsch has been recommended as a key lawyer and "venture capital and M&A specialist" for both areas.
Key lawyer for Private Equity: Venture Capital
Key lawyer for M&A
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”
OTPP manages the assets of more than 336,000 (current and former) teachers in Ontario, Canada, with total net assets of approximately CAD 250 billion: Advising OTPP as lead investor on its investment in instagrid, Europe's leading provider of high-performance portable battery systems, in a USD 95 million Series C Financing Round (2023/2024)
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 USD 223 million Series B Financing Round (2023)
Advising the French PE-/VC-Fund BlackFin Capital Partners, one of the leading European growth capital investors with excess of EUR 2 billion in assets under management, on various investments and follow-on investments in Germany, inter alia in HAWK:AI and FINLEX (ongoing since 2021)
Advising thyssenkrupp on Fleet’s investment in carValoo, a subsidiary of thyssenkrupp (2023)
Advising a leading corporate venture builder on the development and expansion of (digital) business models for its clients in several cases (ongoing since 2020)
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)
Advising the Belgian stock corporation Carmeuse in connection with the foundation of Tenera, the development of a new digital business model in cooperation with the corporate venture builder BCG Digital Ventures, and an investment by BCG Digital Ventures in Tenera (ongoing since 2020)
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)
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)
Advising Frog, Mutschler and Piton on follow-on investments in McMakler in a EUR 20 million Financing Round (2023)
Advising IQ Capital, a UK based growth capital investor, as lead investor on its investment in QuantumDiamonds in a EUR 7 million Seed Financing Round (2023)
Providing comprehensive advice to the founders and shareholders on the sale of one of the leading German digitalization companies, etventure, to E&Y (2017/2018)
* Client was advised on prior to joining Taylor Wessing
Providing comprehensive advice to eleven insurance companies on the sale of the building society (“Bausparkasse”) Aachener Bausparkasse AG to Wüstenrot Bausparkasse AG (2018/2019)
* Client was advised on prior to joining Taylor Wessing
Advising on a €300 million investment by Axa, Goldman Sachs, MTN, Orange and Rocket Internet
* Client was advised on prior to joining Taylor Wessing
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
作者 Dr. Amir-Said Ghassabeh 以及 Dr. David Klein, LL.M. (Univ. of Washington), CIPP/E
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