Christian Tönies
LL.M. Eur.

Christian Toenies provides comprehensive advice on domestic and cross-border M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions. His practice focuses in particular on the structuring and execution of complex acquisitions and disposals, growth financings, leveraged buy-outs and buy & build strategies.

He has more than twenty years of experience in transactional advisory work at the intersection of M&A, private equity and venture capital. His clients include institutional private equity and venture capital funds, corporate venture capital units and strategic investors as well as start-ups, founders and high-growth companies in the AI, software, technology, fintech, e-commerce and other sectors.

Christian Toenies is consistently recommended by leading legal directories for his work. The Legal 500 has inducted him into its "Hall of Fame" in recognition of his market-leading expertise in venture capital. Chambers & Partners highlights him as "a key strategic voice in getting deals done". The JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms lists him among the "Leading Names in the Industry" in venture capital and private equity, commending his "comprehensive market knowledge" and "high standing". He is further recommended by Best Lawyers and Leaders League for corporate law, M&A, private equity and venture capital.

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