Christoph Hempel
Senior Associate
Senior Associate
Germany
Christoph is a senior associate in our Corporate practice in Frankfurt.
Christoph advises national and international clients on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, in particular with a focus on private equity and growth equity/venture capital investments.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
M&A/Private Equity
- Shareholders of Yokoy (Swiss AI platform provider) on its successfully completed acquisition by TravelPerk
- Shareholders of KUA group on the sale of the group to Arcadis
- Sumitomo Corporation on its investment in EEW Offshore Wind, a leading manufacturer of monopiles
- Avedon Capital Partners on the acquisition of all shares in IoT platform provider Cumulocity GmbH from Software GmbH
- 908 Devices on the acquisition of TRACE Analytics*
- Beyond Capital on the acquisition of Soft & Cloud*
- Huma Therapeutics on the acquisition of Alcedis*
- LionRock Capital on the acquisition of Haglöfs AB*
- Shareholders of Bioassay and Peptide Specialty Laboratories on the sale to Reaction Biology*
- Summit Partners on the sale of its interest in the ELATEC group*
- Volkswagen and Porsche on a joint venture between Bugatti and Rimac Automobili*
VC/Growth Equity
- BOND on its investments in Flink*
- Canaan Partners on its investment in WorkMotion*
- Five Elms on its investments in Userlane*
- Gimv (lead), Panakes, Hadean, Cambridge Innovation Capital and Seroba (consortium) on their investment in and the cross-border flip of Complement Therapeutics*
- Left Lane Capital on its investments in GoStudent, Studysmarter, Choco Communications, Yokoy and HTC Heritage Type*
- Ocean 14 Capital on its investment in goodcarbon*
- Piva Capital (lead) and Copec WIND Ventures on their investments in INERATEC*
- Redpoint Ventures on its investment in Restate*
- Unusual Ventures and Spark Capital (both lead investors in different financing rounds) on their investments in Qdrant Solutions*
- Rose Park on a German investment*
- Sands Capital on its investment in Hawk AI*
*prior to joining the firm
Services
Background
Christoph studied law at the University of Heidelberg and graduated from the University of Freiburg. Since 2021, he has been admitted to the German bar. Prior to joining the firm, Christoph worked for leading German and American law firms in their Corporate and Private Equity/Venture Capital departments.
He is fluent in German and English.
