Tim advises and represents financial investors and corporate clients on M&A and buy-out transactions as well as financing rounds
with a focus on the growth segment and the technology and healthcare sectors. In addition, Tim's practice includes general corporate advice, corporate restructurings, capital markets law, and advising on corporate compliance.
Germany's leading economic magazine WirtschaftsWoche ranked Tim as a top lawyer for M&A in 2023, 2024 and 2025. For The Best Lawyers® in Germany edition, the US publishing house, in cooperation with German business daily Handelsblatt®, named Tim a "lawyer of the year" in Berlin for mergers and acquisitions in 2025 and "lawyer of the year" for capital markets law in 2023, and commends Tim as one of Germany's best lawyers for capital markets, corporate and mergers and acquisitions law. The JUVE handbook of German commercial law firms mentions Tim as a frequently recommended advisor in Berlin and for PE and VC transactions in Germany. IFLR listed Tim as notable practitioner for M&A in 2022.
Education and Career
Tim studied law in Freiburg and Munich as well as at Harvard Law School. Before joining YPOG, Tim was co-founder of SMP in 2017. Prior to this, Tim was a Counsel with the leading German law firm Hengeler Mueller.
Experience
Recently, Tim advised primarily on the following mandates:
- Shareholders of Aagon on the sale to Genui Partners
- Shareholders of Shyftplan on the sale to Maguar
- Shareholders of Aaron on the sale to Doctolib
- Shareholders of Pflegecampus on the sale to Verdane
- Shareholders of sofatutor on the sale to Emeram Partners
- Shareholders of e-bot7 on the sale to Liveperson
- Wallaby, Inc. on the acquisition of Phenox group
- Delivery Hero SE on the acquisition of Glovo
- Great Hill Partners on the acquisition of Echobot and Leadfeeder
- Partech on various financing rounds
- Eurazeo on various financing rounds
Qualifications
- German qualified attorney (Rechtsanwalt)
- Ph.D. in law (Dr. iur.) (Munich University)
- LL.M. (Harvard)
Languages
- German
- English
- Civil law consequences of breaches of financial sanctions under the European embargo regime
WM 2016, S. 1323-1333 (together with Wolfgang Spoerr) - (in German) - Exerting pressure in contract negotiations: an economic analysis of German civil law
Munich 2014 - (in German)
