Dr. Stefan Bührle

Dr. Stefan Bührle, LL.M. (Berkeley)

Attorney at law, Partner

Dr. Stefan Bührle specializes in cross-border and domestic M&A transactions, joint ventures and private equity and venture capital deals. He represents financial investors, companies and founders/shareholders in these areas.

He also advises company management on transaction situations and is available to answer general questions on corporate law. In addition to his work as a consultant, Dr. Stefan Bührle plays an active role in recruiting trainee lawyers, research assistants and interns.

Focus Areas
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  • Studied at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich; University of California, Berkeley School of Law (LL.M.) and Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen (Dr. iur.)

  • Legal clerkship in Ulm, Stuttgart, and Munich

  • Admitted to the bar

Selected References

Private equity / M&A

  • PCS PolymerCycle Solutions GmbH, ein Portfoliounternehmen des Impact-Private-Equity-Fonds Vidia Equity, bei dem Erwerb des auf Kunststoffrecycling spezialisierten, in Viersen ansässigen Unternehmens Hoffmann u. Voss GmbH / PCS PolymerCycle Solutions GmbH, a portfolio company of the impact private equity fund Vidia Equity, in the acquisition of Hoffmann u. Voss GmbH, a company based in Viersen specializing in plastics recycling

  •  Munich-based private equity company in connection with the development and implementation of a buy-and-build platform

  • Shareholders in the sale of their company in the medical/healthcare sector

  • Denario in its acquisition by Pandadoc

  • Shareholders of an investment company in the acquisition of significant assets from Mädchenflohmarkt out of insolvency

  • Summit Partners in the sale of its stake in Workaround GmbH (ProGlove)

  • Summit Partners on the sale of its stake in Appway

  • Ampersand Capital Partners on the sale of its majority stake in Vibalogics Holdings LLC

  • 908 Devices (Nasdaq: MASS) on the acquisition of TRACE Analytics GmbH

  • Imprivata Inc. in its investment in OGITIX Software AG

  • Sun Capital Partners on the spin-off and sale of ESIM Chemical's IM business unit

  • Marlin Management Company, LLC on the acquisition of a majority stake in COYO GmbH

  • IDEX Corporation on the acquisition of ABEL Group

  • Summit Partners on investment in Solactive AG

  • Heska Corporation in its acquisition of scil animal care company GmbH

  • ARDIAN on the acquisition of the agrochemicals and fine chemicals business of DPx Holdings B.V.

  • ARDIAN on its investment in Chal-Tec GmbH

  • 3i on the sale of amor GmbH

  • EQT Expansion Capital II on the sale of Internetstores Holding GmbH

  • PAI Partners on the sale of IPH

  • A.S. Adventure Group on the acquisition of McTREK

  • Waterland Private Equity on the sale of its stake in A-ROSA River Cruise Group

  • Castik Capital on the acquisition of a majority stake in inet, GmbH Austria

  • ARDIAN on the sale of ESIM Chemicals GmbH

  • Diligent Corporation on the acquisition of Brainloop AG

  • HBC on the agreement with SIGNA Retail Holdings to merge HBC Europe with the German Karstadt Warenhaus GmbH

  • HK Food GmbH on the sale of Nordsee Holding GmbH

  • EQT Mid Market fund on the sale of LUMAS Art Editions GmbH and WhiteWall

  • CVC on the acquisition of Bosch's packaging technology division

Venture Capital

  • Boulder Ventures in its investment in ng-voice GmbH

  • Venture companies in the healthcare sector in a series seed financing round „CPTx GmbH in USD 29 million financing by a group of various private and public investors“

  • Thrive Capital in a financing round for a German FinTech company

  • Sands Capital on investment in HAWK AI GmbH (Series B financing round)

  • G Squared in various financing rounds (including N26 and Choco Communications GmbH)

  • DN Capital in investment in numa Group GmbH (Series B financing round)

Some of the mandates were handled in previous law firms

Publications
  • Entrepreneurial freedom versus regulatory oversight (The management board in banking and insurance companies caught between entrepreneurial freedom and regulatory oversight) – Duncker & Humblot Schriften zum Wirtschaftsrecht (WR), Volume 289, 2016

Languages

German, English

Contact

P+ 49 89 89 05 89 229 F+49 89 89 05 89 299

buehrle@glns.de

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