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Orrick Supports SmartUp! – The WHU Entrepreneurship Network

Sponsored Event | January.19.2018 | 12pm - 8pm ()

Orrick Düsseldorf

On January 19, 2018, we will host of young founders and corporate entrepreneurs from SmartUp! – The WHU Entrepreneurship Network for a knowledge sharing session and an introduction to venture capital deal terms in our Düsseldorf office. The session will be part of SmartUp!’s first city tour to Düsseldorf.

“SmartUp! is a well-established and successful entrepreneurship network. After they have successfully established startup tours to Berlin, Hamburg and Düsseldorf we are happy that they are now coming to Düsseldorf and will gladly share our insights with respect to legal pitfalls to avoid in the early phases of a young company and how to protect the company’s ability to attract venture capital financing later on,” says Dr. Sven Greulich, partner in our Technology Companies Practice and a WHU alumni himself.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Technology Companies Group

Dr. Sven Greulich, LL.M. (Cantuar), EMBA Partner

Dusseldorf

Sven advises technology companies on complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital as well as growth investments, and provides general corporate counseling.

His clients include technology companies of all stages and their investors. Supported by a global and cross-practice team, he also counsels major corporations and scale-ups on international expansion and growth projects and has a special focus on in- and outbound German/US investments and joint ventures.

Sven is passionate about building a bridge for his clients from Germany to the US and other international technology hubs and to help them succeed in the international market. With a dual background in business and law, an entrepreneurial spirit, and experience in over 200 M&A transactions and financing rounds across many industries, Sven has a unique perspective, which inspires him to find the best strategic and commercially viable solution for his clients.

Sven volunteers with entrepreneur groups at the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management and the RWTH Aachen and regularly lectures at the WHU and the RWTH incubation and innovation centers on venture capital financings, start-up growth and corporate venture capital.

Sven's work has been repeatedly awarded, inter alia

  • the leading German market publication JUVE ranks him as "frequently recommended for M&A, PE and corporate advice. Since 2019, JUVE ranks Sven as one of Germany's top 15 attorneys for venture capital (the highest recognition for this category awarded by JUVE);
  • Legal500 recommends Sven in its 2023 ranking for "mid-sized international Corporate M&A deals (€100m-€500m)" and venture capital and lists him as an exceptional practitioner for venture capital;
  • Chambers recommends Sven for M&A as well as venture capital and lists him as an exceptional practitioner (2023);
  • Best Lawyers and Handelsblatt recommend him as top lawyer for M&A transactions (2023); and
  • in the 2017 edition of its Innovative Lawyers Report Europe, the Financial Times named Sven's work to connect start-ups with Germany's Mittelstand (mid-sized companies) a standout “for making bridges between Silicon Valley and Germany”.