Studied in Kiel, traineeship in Kiel, Hamburg and Copenhagen. Lawyer since 2009, certified lawyer for commercial and corporate law, business graduate, alumnus of the German Business Foundation, notary since 2019
Specialisation: M&A - mergers and acquisitions, company transformations and succession, corporate law, notarial services
Dr Martin Witt specialises in structuring corporate transactions, in particular the purchase and sale of companies and shareholdings, as well as advising investors and entrepreneurs on the sale of and participation in existing and newly founded companies.
In addition, he advises entrepreneurs and companies on all types of reorganisations including mergers, spin-offs and demergers, spin-offs and squeeze-outs as well as generally in the field of corporate law, including stock corporation law, and corporate succession. He is also the contact person for questions in connection with the transparency register.
Until 2014, Dr Martin Witt worked in a law firm in Hamburg specialising in corporate law and company acquisitions and has structured and advised on numerous company acquisitions - both on the buyer and seller side - for private equity companies as well as for entrepreneurs and strategic investors.
Selection of publicly known reference mandates:
- Advising the shareholders of the North German FTTH/fibre optic group "TNG" on the sale of a majority stake to a subsidiary of the listed infrastructure investor ICG
- Advising EDEKA on the intended acquisition of 72 stores of the supermarket chain REAL
- Advising the sole shareholder of s-consit GmbH, the market leader in Germany for outsourced auditing services for savings banks, on the sale of a majority stake to the "ETL Group"
- Advising the shareholder of the payment service provider "allpago GmbH" with a focus of activities and subsidiaries in South America on the sale of the group of companies to the international payment service provider "PPRO"
- Advising the shareholders of the "Ploog Group", a group of companies specialising in shipyard services, electrical installation, repair/service, testing/assembly and the sale of generators, on the sale of all shares in the company to the industrial holding company Incoras Holding GmbH.
- Advising on the sale of veterinary clinics and veterinary practices throughout Germany to Anicura and Evidensia, including the sale of a majority stake in the Haar veterinary clinic to AniCura
- Advising EDEKA Handelsgesellschaft Nord GmbH in connection with the acquisition of a stake in Heinrich von Allwörden GmbH
- Advising the shareholders of "FLS GmbH" on the sale of a majority stake in the software development company for Real Time Scheduling & Route Optimisation to the listed company Deutsche Beteiligungs AG
- Advising the majority shareholders of a public transport company on the implementation of asqueeze-outunder stock corporation law and the subsequent change of legal form of the company from a stock corporation to a limited liability company to enable the future "in-house" awarding of contracts
- Advising Virtual Minds AG on the acquisition of a majority stake in the operator of a data management platform (DMP) The ADEX GmbH
- Advising the shareholders and board members of Freiburg-based "Virtual Minds AG" on the acquisition of subsidiaries and the subsequent sale of the digital marketing and media technology provider to ProSiebenSat.1 Digital GmbH
- Advising the listed Montabaur-based United Internet AG on the acquisition of portfolio companies in the software and IT market, most recently on the acquisition of a stake in the Cologne-based search engine optimiser ranking coach GmbH
- Advising the shareholders of "R. Thomsen EU-Großschlachterei GmbH & Co. KG" and "Rüdiger Thomsen EG-Zerlegebetrieb GmbH & Co. KG" based in Bad Bramstedt to the Tönnies Group
