Stefan advises and represents corporate clients, funds, investors as well as listed companies on all kinds of national & cross-border transactions, with a special focus on Tech and Growth M&A as well as Venture Capital. His experience ranges from seed round investments in start-ups to major growth equity investments, private equity M&A transactions and multi-seller exits.
Expertise
Industries
Experience
Representative matters
Relevant A&O Shearman and previous firm experience includes advising:
Groupe Positive on the acquisition of mailingwork GmbH.
The founders of AMANA Consulting GmbH on the exit to LucaNet AG, a portfolio company of HgCaptial.
MSM.digital (nowadays 1SP Agency) on the acquisition of the promotion agency PRofiFLITZER GmbH as well as the influencer agency Insight.
BPE on several transactions, in particular including (i) the acquisition of the Full-Service-Digital-Provider MSM as an Owners Buy-out, (ii) the acquisition of the DeutschAkademie Group via Management Buy-in and (iii) the acquisition of the tech-focused digital agency OPEN as an Owners Buy-out.
Naspers on its investment in Delivery Hero.
Deutsche GigaNetz inter alia on the entry of DWS.
Keleya on ist Merger with Kinderheldin
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.,
- 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 of ComX on the entry of FLEX Capital.
ECO Group on the participation in JM Nature (“Ben & Anna”).
Founders of m+m Gebäudetechnik on the entry of SüdBG, a subsidiary of LBBW.
Published Work
- Stefan Witte (2015), “Leiharbeit beim Betriebsübergang”, Hamburg, Nomos, Doctoral Thesis
- Author, in: Bank/Ullrich/Schaper, Beck’sches Venture Capital Handbuch (expected October 2024), Berlin/Hamburg/Köln, C.H.BECK
Awards
- Recognized as “Best Lawyers – Ones to watch” for 2024 for Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law by business daily Handelsblatt in cooperation with US publishing house Best Lawyers® in Germany
Qualifications
Admissions
Academic
Second German Law Degree, Higher Regional Court of Hamburg, Germany, 2015
Dr. iur., Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany, 2015
First German Law Degree, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany, 2011
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