Orrick Legal Ninja Series
4 hour read | January.16.2025
The German tech ecosystem matures and achieving exits is arguably one of the last missing ingredients to supercharge the German tech ecosystem. In a stubbornly difficult IPO market, mergers and acquisitions often offer the only practical route to liquidity for high-growth companies and its investors.
With special attention on the sale of venture-backed tech companies, this playbook provides buyers and sellers a guide to approaching M&A transactions involving German tech companies.
Based on our experience with countless exit transactions in Germany and beyond, OLNS#13:
In preparing OLNS#13, our cross-functional Orrick team again drew on experience representing more than 4,500 venture-backed companies and 100+ unicorns as well as the most active funds, corporate venture investors and public tech companies worldwide. Founded in the Bay Area, Orrick is one of the world’s leading technology law firms and advises on more venture transactions in Europe than any other law firm for more than eight years (PitchBook, Q3/2024).