Michael Lamsa

Michael specialises in national and cross-border complex M&A transactions (including carve-outs) and private equity transactions and advises, in particular, strategic investors and financial investors from Germany and abroad. His practice covers buy-side and sell-side advise as well as pre-transaction structuring and post-merger integration. Michael also focuses on advising clients on corporate law, covering a broad range of areas, including management buy-outs, management participations, venture capital, joint ventures, reorganisations, and restructurings. Moreover, Michael is also a lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Education

• Doctor (PhD) Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• 2nd state examination Oberlandesgericht Nürnberg (2002 — 2004)
• 1st state exam Universität Bayreuth (1997 — 2002)

Companies

• Partner Gowling WLG (2023)
• Lecturer Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (2017)
• Salary Partner Corporate | M&A Taylor Wessing (2019 — 2023)
• Lawyer Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (2015 — 2019)
• Lawyert Clifford Chance (2008 — 2015)
• Scientific Assistant Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (2004 — 2008)

Skills

• commercial law
• Corporate reorganizations
• private equity

Other

Legal advice, mergers and acquisitions, M&A, corporate law