Thiemo Woertge, Dipl.-Volkswirt
Counsel Corporate & Finance
Berlin
Munich
Languages
German, English
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Thiemo Woertge advises venture capital and private equity investors, corporate VCs, start-ups, scale-ups and other private capital backed companies as well as founder teams on transactions across the entire private capital funding cycle. His expertise ranges from early-stage investments, venture capital and growth equity financing to exit transactions, in particular with the participation of private equity investors. He also advises on a variety of related topics such as management and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), hurdle shares and VSOPs.
Thiemo has particular experience in the technology, e-commerce and FinTech sectors as well as in transactions relating to intellectual property rights. At the beginning of his career at Hogan Lovells, Thiemo worked in the patent law practice group for almost two years.
Alongside his legal education, Thiemo obtained a diploma in economics from the University of Heidelberg, focusing on law and economics, in particular company law, corporate finance and accounting. Before joining Hogan Lovells as an associate, he worked for international law firms in Berlin, Brussels and London. He focused on commercial and corporate law during his second state exam in law.
Representative experience
Advsing Alasco on its series B financing round of EUR 35 million led by Insight Partners and Lightrock as well as its series A and two series seed financing rounds.
Advising Armira Growth on a EUR 25 million series A growth equity investment into osapiens Inc.
Advising Catalym on its EUR 50 million series C financing round led by Jeito Capital and Brandon.
Advising Charles on its series A financing round of USD 20 million led by Salesforce Ventures as well as its series seed financing round of EUR 6.4 million led by Accel and HV Ventures.
Advising Shareholders of Company Bike Solutions in the sale including re-investment to DPE and the the secondary buy-out to Rivean.
Advising Shareholders of prop-tech start-up Flexcavo on the sale to Trackunit, an HG Capital portfolio company.
Advising Limehome on several financing rounds led by HV Ventures, Picus Capital and Lakestar including latest series A extensions as well as a venture loan financings by GGC and Capital Four.
Advising Quantilope on its series C financing round as well as several venture loans
Advising Tengelmann Ventures, HTGF and Bayern Kapital as well as various business angels on the sale of their majority stake in the Munich-based software start-up Metoda in a secondary transaction.
Advising Quantilope on its series C financing round as well as several venture loans.
Advising Shareholders of H&Z Unternehmensberatung on the sale to, including roll-over, EMZ.
Advising Shareholders of STP Group on the sale to HgCapital including re-investment (leveraged buy-out).
Advising Founders of STP on the sale of the STP Group to Bregal (secondary buy-out) and Maguar Capital on the minority stake in STP Group.
Advising Vytal Global on its USD 10 million series A financing round.
Advising Wirelane on its EUR 18 million series B financing round led by Abacon Capital and its series A financing round of Vito Ventures, Coparion, High-Tech Gründerfonds and Ritter Starkstromtechnik.
Advising Start-ups and founders on financing rounds, venture/convertible loans, warrants and ESOPs, e.g. Dreamlines, ExpressGroup, Flexcavo, Fraugster, Kellers Sports, MedKitDoc, Springlane, Years.
Credentials
- Second State Exam in Law, Higher Regional Court of Berlin, 2015
- First State Exam in Law, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2013
- Diploma of Economics, Heidelberg University, 2010
- Munich