Mission: We are a partner to entrepreneurs, founders and investors in Germany and abroad. We work with them to find ways of tackling their economic challenges and driving innovation. Successful collaboration depends very much on advanced legal expertise; an entrepreneurial thinking and our passion are what set us apart from other law firms. Working in small, highly specialised teams we not only provide legal advice, we take responsibility for the business involved.
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times expertise
The size of our Berlin office allows us to appoint top-quality people. Not only are we legally highly qualified, we also love complex economic issues and tackle complicated calculations (carried interests, cap tables, liquidation preferences, fund flows etc.).
billion euros of experience
Transactions are our speciality. We manage transactions on behalf of concerns, private equity companies and start-ups. By the end of 2019 we had handled transactions totalling €14 billion.
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250
times passion
There’s no such thing as can’t. That applies to contractual negotiations and it applies when we go to court. The proof: since our law firm was founded in 2007 we have obtained over 250 competition law injunctions on behalf of our clients.
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million euros of efficiency per page
Time is money. Your money. That is why we focus on the essentials. An example: short contracts can be sufficient – we recently sold a company for 72 million Euro with a nine page agreement.
percent satisfaction
Since foundation of our firm about 13 years ago all our key clients sticked with us. We will gladly convince you of the quality of our service.
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Milestones: Since our law office was founded in 2007, we have more than doubled our staff to today’s fifty. The younger people at our law firm have opened up new consultancy areas in the start-up environment, in the growing real estate market and at the interface between litigation and corporate law. And we are still evolving. Here are a selection of major transactions, lawsuits and awards.
2022
01. März 2022
15th anniversary
BMH BRÄUTIGAM has been successful on the market for 15 years.
2021
30. Oktober 2021
JUVE Law Firm of the Year
BMH BRÄUTIGAM is JUVE Law Firm of the Year Region East 2021 and furthermore highly recommended in the categories Berlin, M&A, Private Equity, Venture Capital and Real Estate.
2017
03. August 2017
SIGNA-Group
BMH BRÄUTIGAM advised SIGNA on the acquisition and financing of a development site right by Berlin’s Mercedes-Benz Arena.
2017
01. März 2017
Anniversary
BMH BRÄUTIGAM celebrates 10th anniversary.
2016
01. Januar 2016
Rankings
BMH BRÄUTIGAM is a highly recommended law firm in private equity, venture capital and M&A (JUVE and The Legal 500).
2015
14. Oktober 2015
Deutsche Bahn
BMH BRÄUTIGAM represents Deutsche Bahn against BER and advises Pelikan on its Secondary Listing.
2014
08. August 2014
Award
Nominated as »Lawyers of the Year for Private Equity & Venture Capital« (JUVE). In September we advise capiton on the sale of the Lahmeyer Group.
2013
18. Oktober 2013
Haupt Pharma
BMH BRÄUTIGAM advises on the sale of Haupt Pharma AG, which has more than 2,000 employees and a turnover of €282 million, to Aenova.
2012
01. Januar 2012
Top Employer
azur lists BMH BRÄUTIGAM as one of its 100 Top Employers. The number of equity partners doubles from four to eight within two years.
2011
29. Juni 2011
Venture Capital
BMH BRÄUTIGAM Venture Capital Team begins its work.
2010
10. März 2010
Crédit Agricole
BMH BRÄUTIGAM assists Crédit Agricole Private Equity (now OMNES Capital) in several acquisitions (such as Electronic Sports League ESL).
2009
06. November 2009
Pelikan
The team surrounding Jan-Peter Heyer and Patrick Auerbach-Hohl advises Pelikan in acquiring a majority stake in Herlitz AG.
2008
29. April 2008
Borsig
BMH BRÄUTIGAM advises capiton on the sale of Borsig (for €350 million). We acquired property developer SIGNA as a client in June.
2007
01. März 2007
Law firm founded
Dr Benedikt Bräutigam, Dr Johannes Meinel and Jan-Peter Heyer found BMH BRÄUTIGAM as a spin-off from Lovells.