LACORE is a law firm specializing in commercial law. We focus on providing advice regarding transactions, projects, and complex issues related to commercial law.
LACORE acts internationally and feels particularly connected to Berlin.
Dr. Arnd Barnitzke
Partner
Certified specialist for tax law
Certified specialist for medical law
Lawyer
LANGUAGES
CORE AREAS
Drafting/Negotiating
Financing deals and transactions
Litigation
Sohrab Beheshtipour
Lawyer
LANGUAGES
CORE AREAS
Drafting/negotiating financing deals and transactions
Dr. Holger Bergbach, LL.M.
Counsel
Certified specialist for medical law
Lawyer
LANGUAGES
CORE AREAS
Share deals
litigation
CORE AREAS
drafting/negotiating agreements and transactions
Matthias Braun
Partner
Lawyer
LANGUAGES
CORE AREAS
drafting/negotiating financing deals and transactions
CORE AREAS
drafting/negotiating agreements and transactions
André Eggert, M.L.E.
Partner
Lawyer
LANGUAGES
CORE AREAS
drafting/negotiating agreements and transactions
Yamila Eraso, LL.M.
Counsel
Attorney-at-Law (New York, USA)
LANGUAGES
CORE AREAS
Cross-border transactions
Viktoria Gott, LL.M. (Stellenbosch)
Lawyer
LANGUAGES
CORE AREAS
drafting/negotiating financing deals and transactions
Torsten Heinrich
Partner
Lawyer
LANGUAGES
CORE AREAS
drafting/negotiating agreements and transactions
litigation
CORE AREAS
drafting/negotiating agreements and transactions
trademark law
Dr. Linda Kurta
Certified Specialist for Employment Law
Lawyer
Certified expert for privacy issues (DEKRA)
LANGUAGES
CORE AREAS
Invdividual and collective employment law
Dr. Melanie Lahr, LL.M.
Certified Specialist for Employment Law
Lawyer
LANGUAGES
CORE AREAS
layoff protection proceddings
ongoing day-to-day advice for institutions and corporations
CORE AREAS
Drafting/Negotiating Agreements and Transactions
Dr. Sven Lochelfeldt
Certified Specialist for Employment Law
Lawyer
LANGUAGES
CORE AREAS
layoff protection proceddings
ongoing day-to-day advice for institutions and corporations
Katrin Mühlstädt, Lic. en Droit
Lawyer
LANGUAGES
CORE AREAS
drafting/negotiating financing deals and transactions
Ole Nieke, Lic. en Droit
Counsel
Lawyer
LANGUAGES
CORE AREAS
drafting/negotiating agreements and transactions
CORE AREAS
drafting/negotiating financing deals and transactions
Dr. Jens-Ullrich Pille, LL.M. (Sydney)
Lawyer
LANGUAGES
CORE AREAS
drafting/negotiating agreements and transactions
litigation
advertising/unfair competition law
Natalie Vahsen
Partner
Lawyer
LANGUAGES
CORE AREAS
drafting/negotiating M&A financing deals and transactions
Moritz Vierneisel
Lawyer
LANGUAGES
CORE AREAS
litigation
Dr. Ralf Vogt
Partner
Certified Specialist for Employment Law
Lawyer
LANGUAGES
CORE AREAS
workers constitution law
collective bargaining law
third party deployment issues
Augsburg-based Xentral ERP Software is developing the next generation ERP software for the SME segment. Xentral’s software aims to provide SMEs a powerful platform that helps them to better run their businesses. Founders Benedikt and Claudia Sauter started Xentral while working on their own company, when their realized that there was no single solution to manage the many parts of a business’ backend processes. Since then, Xentral has exponentially grown and attract investors such as Freigeist. Now, Xentral has successfully closed their Series A round led by Sequoia and Visionaries Club, marking Sequoia’s first investment from their European fund.
LACORE’s team composed by André Eggert, Stefanie Berges, Yamila Eraso, Paola Leiva (all corporate), Elisa Kübler and Jens-Ulrich Pille (both IP) advised the company and founders during the negotiation and closing of this milestone round.
Friday, 15.1.2021
Munich-based air up GmbH, ranked among the 25 fastest growing start-ups in Germany in 2020, has closed a Series A financing round led by Ippen.Media, Five Seasons Ventures and PepsiCo. In the last year, air up has raised a total of EUR 20 Million in several financing rounds. Air up is the world´s first refillable drinking system that can add flavor to water through scent alone, by leveraging the physiological phenomenon of retronasal smell - without sugar, additives or any other ingredients.
LACORE has advised the company and founders since their early stages. During this round LACORE advised on the negotiation with all investors’ groups as well as drafting and successful closing of the round.
Air up was advised by: André Eggert, Inez Nuding, Yamila Eraso (all corporate) and Maria Höricke (IP).
Monday, 11.1.2021
LACORE has advised Berlin based life science start-up on its extended pre-Series A financing round. The company received two million Euros from the investor GPS Ventures.
MORELACORE advised Berlin-based real estate investor and developer The Grounds on the sale of a logistics centre in Hangelsberg / Grünheide (Mark). The site comprises over 350,000 sqm and is located just a few kilometres from the new TESLA Gigafactory, east of Berlin city limits. The sale was structured through a bidding process. Interested parties were offered the acquisition alternatively in the form of a share deal or an asset deal. Closing took place on January 1, 2021.
Dr. Arnd Barnitzke (real estate) and Dr. Holger Bergbach (corporate) acted for LACORE.
Friday, 8.1.2021
BIOMES uses state-of-the-art biotechnological methods to examine bacteria that live in and on the human body. The intestinal flora self-test – which was released as the first product 2018 - is now being marketed and sold internationally. During the pandemic year 2020, BIOMES also demonstrated the flexibility of its proprietary technology platform. Within a very short time, the start-up set up a COVID-19 test track which has already been used to process thousands of corona samples from Berlin und Brandenburg.
BIOMES has been advised by André Eggert and Sohrab Beheshtipour (both Corporate).
Friday, 11.12.2020
LACORE has advised Talentspace on its EUR 4 Million Seed financing round led by 468 Capital and Avala Capital.
MORETalentspace was launched in 2017 to use technology to improve the recruiting event experience and make opportunities accessible for everyone. During this time, they used and built technology to make the offline recruiting event experience more targeted, efficient and relevant. At the beginning of 2020, and accelerated by the impact of COVID-19, Talentspace quickly reacted and expanded the platform to host virtual recruiting events end-to-end. They now provide an all-in-one live online recruiting event platform and host recruiting events online so participants and employers can connect and interact digitally. Their customers are from top universities such as Stanford, Brown, and WHU in Germany, to the most in-demand employers like Porsche and Google. Talentspace has been nominated for the ongoing Gründerszene Award 2020.
The company has closed the financing round with the support of André Eggert, Sohrab Beheshtipour (both corporate) and Maria Höricke (IP).
Friday, 13.11.2020
LACORE has advised the shareholders of Teambay GmbH during the negotiation and successful closing of the sale of their shares to Staffbase GmbH, leading provider of employee apps and Employee-Experience-Intranets.
Teambay is a Berlin-based start-up founded in 2014 that specializes in the development of digital solutions for employee surveys and has supported numerous companies in the development of a healthy corporate structure with the participation of their employees. Through this sale, Teambay becomes part of the Staffbase family, supporting their growth in the area of HR-Technology.
The shareholders were advised by: André Eggert, Yamila Eraso and Paola Leiva (Corporate M&A).
Tuesday, 27.10.2020
LACORE has advised Mushlabs on its EUR 8.7 Million Series A financing round co-led by Redalpine and VisVires New Protein.
MORELACORE has advised the shareholders of littlelunch GmbH on the sale of their entire shares to a German subsidiary of the Wessanen-Group. The start-up from Augsburg, known from the TV format "Die Höhle der Löwen", has been building up a product range of organic sauces, organic broths and organic stews with ingredients from 100% organic farming since 2015.
The shareholders and the management were advised by: André Eggert and Stefanie Berges (both Corporate M&A), Maria Höricke (IP), Dr. Linda Kurta (employment law) and Dr. Jens-Ullrich Pille (IT/Data Protection).
Friday, 16.10.2020
Mushlabs is a Berlin-based biotech company using fermentation to create sustainable foods from the roots of mushrooms. The mission of the company is to produce nutritious and sustainable foods that appeal to both meat-eaters and vegetarians, while preserving the planet.
The company has closed the financing round with the support of André Eggert, Sohrab Beheshtipour (both corporate) and Maria Höricke (IP).
Tuesday, 25.8.2020
LACORE has advised the Berlin-based start-up Meditopia on its series A financing round with Creandum and Highland Europe as investors. Meditopia has raised USD 15 million Dollars which shall be used for the further growth of their mindfulness and mental well-being platform.
Meditopia has been advised by André Eggert, Sohrab Beheshtipour (both Corporate) and Maria Höricke (IP).
Thursday, 16.7.2020
LACORE has advised Dresden-based robotics start-up Wandelbots GmbH on its latest series B financing round. Wandelbots has collected around 30 million Euros with which it aims to finance the market entry of its teaching platform for robots. Venture capital firm 83North, who has already invested in the software provider Celonis, acted as lead investor along with Microsoft investment fund M12 and Siemens startup unit Next47 as co-investors.
Wandelbots was advised by Natalie Vahsen, Stefanie Berges, Paola Leiva (Corporate), Magda Grünenwald (Corporate, IT/data protection), Paula Deus and Maria Höricke (IP).
Wednesday, 17.6.2020