Lars partners with corporations, founders and financial investors to drive strategic growth through complex M&A, multinational reorganizations, carve-outs/spins and growth investments.

He supports clients across all industries, with a particular focus on the life sciences, tech, and media sectors, as they navigate high-stakes transactions and prepare for future opportunities. Lars combines sector insight with a global perspective, ensuring that clients’ commercial objectives are at the forefront of every deal. Together with Michele Davis and Boris Feldman, he currently heads Freshfields’ global tech, media and telecoms group.

With a practice that spans Europe, the US, Asia, and the Middle East, Lars is adept at managing cross-border deals that demand strategic foresight, a commercial approach and local expertise. His close collaboration with the firm’s US practice and his background in Freshfields' offices in Singapore and London give him a nuanced understanding of international market dynamics. Clients rely on Lars not only for his legal expertise but for his ability to anticipate challenges and create pathways to success in diverse regulatory environments.

Based in Frankfurt and Berlin, Lars brings a hands-on approach as a trusted partner to several of Freshfields’ major clients. Clients and counterparts have praised Lars for being “a leading name in M&A”, a “very commercial”, “always on point” and “just how an M&A lawyer should be – competent, structured and highly professional”.