Simon Vogel LL.M.

Partner
About

Simon Vogel regularly advises private equity and other alternative investment fund managers, institutional investors and investment advisors on fund formations and fund raisings, fund investments, secondary transactions, internal governance, compliance and organization, carried interest and co-investment arrangements, spinouts, re-organizations and restructurings.

He also has extensive experience in a broad range of corporate and securities transactions and represents public and private companies, private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a variety of transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, private equity and venture capital transactions, dispositions, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, joint ventures and restructurings.

Professional QualificationsRechtsanwalt admitted with the Rechtsanwaltskammer Munich

EXPERIENCE

Investment funds related:

  • Advising fund-of-funds, sovereign wealth funds and other institutional investors on primary fund investments, secondaries, continuation fund investments, co-investments and other fund related transactions on an ongoing basis in relation to private equity, venture, debt, infrastructure, hedge, real estate and other alternative investment funds.
  • Advising family offices on investment fund structures and fund investments.
  • Advising C3 Management on structuring an EuVECA fund.
  • Advising Heliad AG on the launch of a 100 million dollar fund, which is a joint venture with Block.one, the developer behind the blockchain software EOS.IO.
  • Advising Family Trust Investor on the launch of a mid-cap focused private equity fund.
  • Advising a real estate fund manager on the structuring and closing of a closed-ended real estate private equity fund.

Selected private equity and venture capital transactions:

  • Advising Group.one, a Cinven portfolio company, on the acquisition of MiniCRM, a leading European CRM solutions provider.
  • Advising Clarity AI on the acquisition of ecolytiq GmbH.
  • Advising Lucanet, a HG Capital portfolio company, on the acquisition of Causal, Inc.
  • Advising Yttrium, Senovo, EQT Ventures, Point Nine, Bayern Kapital and other shareholders of riskmethods GmbH, a leading provider of AI-powered supply chain risk management software, on the sale to Sphera, a portfolio company of Blackstone.
  • Advising Coparion, Heliad AG and other shareholders of FastBill GmbH, one of Germany's leading cloud accounting and invoicing software solutions, on the sale of FastBill to FreshBooks, a leading cloud accounting software provider from Canada.
  • Advising The Carlyle Group on its investment in HSO Group, a leading global Microsoft Dynamics 365 partner, serving clients across Europe, North America and Asia.
  • Advising Jochen Schweizer on the sale of Jochen Schweizer GmbH to ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE.
Languages
  • German
  • English

Awards

  • JUVE Handbook: Frequently recommended for private equity transactions (mid cap) (2024/2025), M&A (2025/2026) and venture capital (2025/2026).
  • Legal 500 Germany 2024: Recommended for private equity: transactions.
  • Handelsblatt in cooperation with Best Lawyers 2026: Recommended for M&A and corporate law.
Education
  • University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, LL.M., 2007
  • Higher Regional Court of Munich, Second State Examination, 2004
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, First State Examination, 2002

Prior Experience

  • 2018 - today: Partner at DLA Piper
  • 2017 - 2018: Partner at an international law firm
  • 2014 - 2016: Counsel at an international law firm
  • 2011 - 2013: Senior Associate at an international law firm
  • 2007 - 2011: Associate at an international law firm