Wegnerpartner

Wegner & Partner mbB, Rechtsanwälte, Partnerschaft mit beschränkter Berufshaftung

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Dr. Olaf Weiß

PARTNER

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Corporate Law
Transaction Advice / Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Venture Capital
Association Law
Real Estate
Litigation and Dispute Resolution

LANGUAGES

German
English
  • Legal advice to orderbird AG, particularly in connection with their financing rounds (amongst others as regards the entry of Metro-Group)
  • Legal advice to EVANA AG, particulary in connection with its Series A financing round
  • Ongoing advice for associations and interest groups
  • Advising a German energy supplier on several acquisitions, amongst others on its acquisitions of shareholdings in an energy supplier based in Lower-Saxony and a gas supplier based in Saxony
  • Advice to and judicial representation of several medium-sized companies in shareholder disputes
  • Representation of medium-sized real estate companies before civil and administrative courts as well as in administrative proceedings
  • Advising a public-law entity established to wind up financial assets (»bad bank«) in connection with the outsourcing of financial services
Since 2017 WEGNERPARTNER, Partner
2007–2017 WilmerHale LLP, Berlin
2008 Humboldt-University Berlin, PhD in law
2005–2007 Higher Regional Court (Kammergericht) Berlin, Judicial Traineeship
2004 Diplom-Kaufmann (German MBA equivalent)
1998–2004 University of Hagen, Studies of Economic Science
1995–2000 Humboldt-University Berlin, Legal Studies
  • Der angemessene Handlungsrahmen der Zielverwaltung in der Übernahmesituation – eine rechtsvergleichende Analyse vor dem Hintergrund ökonomischer Überlegungen zur Corporate Governance (The Proper Framework for Actions of the Target Board in a Takeover Situation – A Comparative Legal Analysis Against the Background of Economic Considerations on Corporate Governance)
    Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2009
    (Dissertation)
  • Upstream Besicherung und Limitation Language nach Inkrafttreten des MoMiG (Upstream securities and Limitation Language after Enactment of MoMiG)
    in: Betriebs-Berater, Heft 35/2009, 1818 (co-published with A. Kollmorgen und M. Santelmann)
  • Auswirkungen der GmbH Reform auf die Transaktionspraxis (Impact on GmbH Reform on Transactional Practice)
    in: Anwaltskarriere 2008 azur (co-published with M. Santelmann)