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Sophia Braun

Associate

Sophia focuses on private equity.
Her advice includes national and cross-border M&A transactions as well as management equity programs and late stage venture capital.

Experience

Representative matters

Riverside Company on the acquisition of Dastex Reinraumzubehör GmbH & Co, a leading specialized independently owned cleanroom garment & consumables distributor in Europe.

Nimbus Private Equity on the sale of Extrusion Technology Group to Davis-Standard, LLC, a global leader in the design, development and distribution of extrusion and converting equipment technology and related customer services.

Egeria on the sale of Wentus, a top-tier German plastic film manufacturer specializing in flexible packaging, particularly in the food sector, to Trioworld Group.

SAP SE on its investment in Aleph Alpha GmbH, one of the market leaders in the field of generative AI.

A joint-stock company in connection with a Series E investment in Volocopter GmbH, a German pioneer of urban air mobility (UAM), an emerging branch of fully electric aviation.

iOmx Therapeutics AG, a biopharmaceutical company developing cancer immunotherapies based on next-generation immune checkpoint targets, on a Series B financing round.

 

Qualifications

Admissions

Second German Law Degree, Oberlandesgericht Muenchen, Germany, 2021

First German Law Degree, University of Passau, Germany, 2017

Academic

Admitted as German Rechtsanwaeltin 2023
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.