Private Equity

P+P is a leader in Germany’s private equity funds practice. Over 20 P+P professionals devote all or a substantial portion of their time to sponsors and investors of private equity funds pursuing all major investment strategies in a variety of markets, including buy-out, venture capital, mezzanine, distressed debt, real estate, infrastructure, life science, energy, sector and regional funds, specialized funds, as well as funds of funds.
P+P's services include fund formation work for a broad range of the best-known private fund sponsors in Germany and abroad. Our practice routinely covers 
  • considering of tax, legal and regulatory needs of all types of sponsors, managers and investors;
  • carried interest planning;
  • securing favorable tax and regulatory treatment in rulings and audits;
  • anticipating current political discussions with representatives of the German government.
Our leading position is based on numerous client relationships to private equity fund sponsors, management teams and investors. Our clients have enabled us to develop particular insight into the terms and structures for various types of funds. Some of the more recent of approximately 170 funds on which P+P has advised in 2007 are contained in the list of private equity funds on this website. (The list may aggregate several funds under one name or acronym.) In each case, P+P has performed fund structuring, fund opinion, or fund screening services for either the fund, a sponsor, or an actual or prospective investor.

PARTNERS:

Uwe Bärenz
Attorney-at-Law, Berlin
Jens Hörmann
Attorney-at-Law, Munich
Dr. Benedikt Hohaus
Attorney-at-Law, Munich
Dr. Michael Inhester
Attorney-at-Law, Munich
Dr. Andreas Rodin
Attorney-at-Law, Frankfurt
Wolfgang Tischbirek
Attorney-at-Law, Tax Advisor, Frankfurt
Amos Veith
Attorney-at-Law, Berlin
Patricia Volhard
Attorney-at-Law, Frankfurt