Simon Vogel LL.M.

• Advising the shareholders of FastBill, one of Germany's leading cloud accounting and invoicing software solutions, on the sale of FastBill to FreshBooks, a leading cloud accounting software provider from Canada.
• Advising the shareholders of riskmethods GmbH, a leading provider of AI-powered supply chain risk management software, on the sale to Sphera.
• Advising The Carlyle Group on its investment in HSO Group, a leading global Microsoft Dynamics 365 partner, serving clients across Europe, North America and Asia.
• Advising Jochen Schweizer on the sale of Jochen Schweizer GmbH to ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE and acquisition of a minority interest in newly formed Jochen Schweizer mydays Holding GmbH, under which Jochen Schweizer GmbH and mydays GmbH were combined.*
• Advising FinLab on the launch of a 100 million dollar fund, which is a joint venture with Block.one, the developer behind the blockchain software EOS.IO and on investments such as in AUTHADA GmbH, Instaffo GmbH, ONPEX Holding GmbH, Next Big Thing AG, Moonlighting, Inc., Uplandme, Inc., New Horizon GmbH (Operator of the Gapless-App) and Sparrow.
• Advising Family Trust Investor on the launch of a mid-cap focused private equity fund.
• Advising an alternative investment fund of fund manager on a number of investments into global private equity, debt and infrastructure funds.
• Advising a real estate fund manager on the structuring and closing of a closed-ended real estate private equity fund.*
• Advising Jochen Schweizer on the acquisition of social network Spontacts GmbH, investment into ticketing platform Regiondo GmbH as well as on seed investments made in the course of the TV show “Die Höhle der Löwen” (German equivalent to “Shark Tank” in the US and “Dragons Den” in the UK), e.g. “Babo Blue”, “Lendstar”, “HipTrips”, “Spottster”, “Foreverly” and “Meine Spielzeugkiste“.*

*Denotes experience from a previous firm