People
Johannes Schmidt
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Senior Associate
Biography
Johannes advises on all aspects of corporate law with a focus on corporate M&A.
In particular, he advises tech companies, their founders and investors on growth and venture capital investments, domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, strategic commercial partnerships as well as joint ventures. His experience ranges from seed round investments in start-ups to major growth equity investments, private equity M&A transactions and multi-seller exits.
Best Lawyers® in cooperation with business daily Handelsblatt has recognized Johannes repeatedly in the “Ones to Watch” list for Germany in the areas of Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law and Venture Capital Law.
He started his career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company and held various operational positions at the fintech growth company Deposit Solutions (now: Raisin). Before joining A&O Shearman, he worked as lawyer at a German top-tier VC law firm.
Practice areas
- Corporate and M&A
- M and A JVs and corporate reorganizations
- Emerging growth
- Tech transactions
- Joint ventures
- Complex commercial transactions
- Legal innovation
- Private equity
- Public company advisory and corporate governance
Sectors
- Technology
- Private capital
- Fintech
- Private equity
Selected experience
- Kühne Holding on its investment in Flix SE together with EQT.
- Partners Group on its investment in green flexibility.
- TravelPerk on its acquisition of Yokoy.
- Armira on the de-SPAC transaction of Boxine (“Tonies”) with 468 SPAC.*
- Deutsche GigaNetz inter alia on the entry of DWS.*
- DTCP on a joint venture transaction with Porsche Automobil Holding SE.*
- US family offices on their shareholdings in Celonis SE, inter alia on the series D extension financing round lead by Qatar Investment Authority.*
- Various other venture capital financing rounds, e.g., - Soluterials on the seed financing round led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF).* - DeFi Labs (“Violet”) on the seed and series A financing rounds lead by BlueYard, and FinTech Collective, Ethereal and Balderton respectively.* - Kopernikus Automotive on the series A and series A extension financing rounds lead by Continental.*
- Project A on the management buy-out of kfzteile24 from EQT.*
- Founders and investors of Stocard on the exit to Klarna.*
Education
- Second German Law Degree, Higher Regional Court of Hamburg, 2014
- First German Law Degree, Bucerius Law School, 2011
- LL.B., Bucerius Law School, 2010
Admissions
- Rechtsanwalt, Germany, 2021
Languages
- English
- German