Laura is a counsel in our global transactions group. She advises on M&A transactions, growth investments and general corporate law, with a particular focus on the technology sector.
Laura has worked with investors and technology companies at all stages of growth on financing rounds, acquisitions, and other corporate matters (such as governance, secondaries and employee participation schemes) out of our offices in Berlin, Munich and New York. Having spent one year in our New York office and working closely with our Silicon Valley team, Laura can build on extensive experience on both European and US deals and investments. She has particular expertise in complex exit processes for VC-backed technology businesses, where she has worked on several of the most prominent transactions in Germany in recent years.
Laura speaks German and English.
- NICE Ltd on its acquisition of Cognigy, referred to as the largest AI acquisition in Europe to date.
- Bending Spoons on the acquisition of German travel-planning app Komoot and on various related debt and equity funding transactions.
- Getir on the acquisition of ultra-fast grocery delivery business Gorillas.
- Penta and its shareholders on the exit and sale of the entire share capital to French FinTech Qonto, the European market-leader for business finance solutions for SMEs.
- Razor Group, one of Germany’s largest e-commerce aggregators, on various acquisitions in the tech sector as well as all several debt and equity financings.
- Scalable Capital, one of Europe’s leading FinTechs, on its €150m series E round;
- Google on its acquisition of edge software provider MobiledgeX.
- HV Capital, one of Germany’s leading venture funds, on its investments in Quantum Systems and Nabla.
- SumUp on its acquisiton of Tiller Systems, a European digital service provider for gastronomy merchants.
- Verisk Analytics, Inc. on its acquisitions of InsurTech Rocket Enterprise Solutions as well as of ACTINEO, a leading Germany-based international InsurTech business.
- Mars, Inc. on the acquisition of a majority stake in Berlin-based nutrition startup foodspring.
- AAC Technologies on the acquisition of a majority stake in Premium Sound Solutions, a global manufacturer of tech-enabled sound systems and acoustic solutions.
- The shareholders of flaschenpost SE, a German beverage delivery start-up, on the sale of the entire share capital to Oetker Group.
- General Atlantic on its growth investments in Sun King and Reliance Health, Inc.
- BBVA on its investment and follow-on financing rounds in Solaris.
- The underwriters in the initial public offering of AUTO1 Group SE.
- Several venture capital funds and international investors on funding rounds in European technology businesses.


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