Armin is a Salary Partner and has extensive experience in advising companies and investors in the areas of venture capital and the establishment and expansion of digital business models.
Armin has a particular focus on financing rounds, exits/buy-outs as well as the establishment and expansion of digital business models through company builders and consulting firms, especially in the areas of digitalization of services, DeepTech, DefenceTech, AI, FinTech, Prop-Tech and e-commerce. In addition, he has proven expertise in complex M&A transactions and Joint Ventures.
Armin is also particularly familiar with the establishment and expansion of renowned consulting firms and their business activities. He also frequently advises on the interface between Start-Ups and Corporates.
Armin is regularly recommended as "venture capital and M&A specialist" and specialist for setting up and expanding digital business models, currently, once again by Legal500 in 2025.
Armin and team were recognized in 2025 by Bundesverband M&A with the renowned Deal of the Year Award for advising investors General Catalyst, Lightspeed and Accel as lead investors in the EUR 600 million financing round of defence-tech company Helsing
Recommended Lawyer for Venture Capital
Key lawyer for M&A
Key lawyer for Private Equity: Venture Capital
Recommended key lawyer for Corporate M&A
Recommended key lawyer for Private Equity: Venture Capital
"Venture capital and M&A specialist", inter alia for "financing rounds, exits/buy-outs and advice on the development and expansion of digital business models"
“Armin Bartsch is very organized and always attentive”
Advising the French PE-/VC-Fund BlackFin Capital Part-ners, with €4 billion in assets under management the Euro-pean market leader in financial services, as lead-investor on its investment in Sinpex in a EUR 10 million Series A Fi-nancing Round (2025/2026)
Advising these three investors as lead-investors on their in-vestment in Helsing in a EUR 600 million Series D Financing Round (2025)
Advising these three investors as lead-investors on their investment in the fusion energy-start-up Proxima Fusion in a EUR 130 million Series A Financing Round (2025)
Implantation of a new corporate governance incl. signing of a shareholders’ agreement (2024) and on various corporate law aspects (ongoing since 2022)
Advising the French PE-/VC-Fund BlackFin Capital Partners, with €4 billion in assets under management the European market leader in financial services, as lead-investor on its investment in Aufinity in a USD 26 million Series C Financing Round (2025)
Advising a Belgian Top-30 company regarding the development of a new digital business model in cooperation with the corporate venture builder BCG X and an invest-ment by BCG X (ongoing)
Advising General Catalyst, one of the worldwide leading growth capital investors with excess of USD 30 billion in assets under management, as lead investor on its investment in Helsing in a EUR 450 million Series C Financing Round (2024) and in a $223 million Series B Financing Round (2023)
Advising Leitmotif, an independent venture capital firm backed by European industrial interests that actively bridges the innovation ecosystems of the U.S. and Europe, as lead-investor on its investment in DeepDrive in a EUR 30 million Series B Financing Round (2024)
Advising thyssenkrupp on Fleet’s investment in carValoo, a subsidiary of thyssenkrupp (2023)
Advising OTPP as lead-investor on its investment in instagrid, Europe's leading provider of high-performance portable battery systems, in a $95 million Series C Financing Round (2023)
Advising Frog, Mutschler and Piton on follow-on investments in McMakler in a EUR 20 million Financing Round (2023)
Advising OnePeak, one of the leading European growth capital investors with excess of USD 2 billion in assets under management, as lead investor on its investment in Hygraph in a USD 30 million Series B Financing Round (2023)
Advising Balderton Capital, a London based leading venture capital firm having raised ten funds totaling more than USD 4.5 billion, as lead investor on its investment in deep-set in a USD 30 million Financing Round (2023)
Providing comprehensive advice to the founders and shareholders on the sale of one of the leading German digitalization companies, etventure, to E&Y
* Client was advised on prior to joining Taylor Wessing
Advising on a EUR 300 million investment by Axa, Goldman Sachs, MTN, Orange and Rocket Internet
* Client was advised on prior to joining Taylor Wessing
Advising on the agreement of a strategic partnership in the form of a joint venture, (Asia Internet Holding) with the listed Asian telecommunications provider Ooredoo Q.S.C.
* Client was advised on prior to joining Taylor Wessing
Advising the French PE-/VC-Fund BlackFin Capital Partners, one of the leading European growth capital investors with excess of EUR 4 billion in assets under management, on various investments in Germany, inter alia in Hawk, FINLEX and Hypatos (ongoing since 2021)
Advising the leading corporate venture builder within the DACH region on the development and expansion of (digital) business models for its clients in several cases (ongoing since 2020)
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Taylor Wessing advises Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures on US$41 million seed financing of Mirelo AI
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‘Deal of the Year’: Taylor Wessing was honoured with the M&A Award 2025 by the German Mergers & Acquisitions Association (BM&A)
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par Thomas Kahl et Teresa Kirschner, LL.M. (Information and Media Law)
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par Dr. Benedikt Kohn, CIPP/E et Alexander Schmalenberger, LL.B.
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par Thomas Kahl et Teresa Kirschner, LL.M. (Information and Media Law)
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