born 1979, university studies in Kiel, postgraduate judicial service training in Kiel, Hamburg and Copenhagen/Denmark. Admitted as attorney in 2009, Certified Specialist for trade and corporate law, diploma in business administration, alumnus of the Foundation of German Business, notary since 2019
Specialisation: Mergers and acquisitions, change of legal form and succession arrangements, corporate law
Dr Martin Witt focuses on the handling of corporate transactions, in particular the acquisition and sale of companies and company holdings, and advises investors and entrepreneurs on the sale of or obtaining a stake in existing and newly created enterprises.
In addition, he advises entrepreneurs and companies on all forms of business restructuring, including mergers, split-ups and split-offs, spin-offs, and on squeeze-out procedures, as well as general advice on corporate law, including stock corporation law and succession arrangements. Alongside this, he is the point of contact for issues relating to the transparency register.
Until 2014, Dr Martin Witt worked for a law firm in Hamburg specialising in corporate law and mergers and acquisitions. Advising both buyers and sellers, he helped conclude many of these mergers and acquisitions for private equity companies, entrepreneurs, and strategic investors.
Selection of published reference assignments
- Advising shareholders of the northern German TNG FTTH/fibre-optic group on the sale of a majority holding to a subsidiary of listed infrastructure investor ICG
- Advising EDEKA on plans to take over 72 stores belonging to the REAL supermarket chain
- Advising the sole partner of s-consit GmbH, market leaders in Germany for outsourced audits of savings banks, on the disposal of a majority holding to ETL Group
- Advising shareholders of payment service provider allpago GmbH which focuses on South American business through its subsidiaries there, on the sale of the group to international payment service provider PPRO
- Advising the shareholders of Ploog Group, a corporate group focusing on shipyard services, electrical installation including repair/service, testing/assembly, and sale of generators, on the sale of all company shares to industrial holding company Incoras Holding GmbH.
- Advising on the sale of other veterinary clinics and practices throughout Germany to AniCura, Evidensia, including the sale of a majority holding in Tierklinik Haar to AniCura
- Advising EDEKA Handelsgesellschaft Nord GmbH with regard to the acquisition of a stake in Heinrich von Allwörden GmbH
- Advising the shareholders of FLS GmbH on the majority sale of the software development company for real-time scheduling and route optimisation to listed company Deutsche Beteiligungs AG
- Advising the majority shareholders of a public transport company on managing a squeeze-out according to corporate law, and subsequently changing the company’s legal form from a public limited company to a limited liability company to allow contracts to be awarded ‘in-house’ in future
- Advising Virtual Minds AG on acquiring a majority holding in the operator of a data management platform (DMP) The ADEX GmbH
- Advising the shareholders and members of the Management Board of Virtual Minds AG based in Freiburg on the acquisition of subsidiaries and subsequent sale of the digital marketing and media technology provider to ProSiebenSat.1 Digital GmbH
- Advising listed company United Internet AG based in Montabaur on the acquisition of holding companies in the software and IT markets, most recently on the acquisition of a stake in search engine optimisation company rankingCoach GmbH based in Cologne
- Advising the shareholders of R. Thomsen EU-Großschlachterei GmbH & Co. KG and Rüdiger Thomsen EG-Zerlegebetrieb GmbH & Co. KG based in Bad Bramstedt, on the sale of the companies to the Tönnies Group
