Dr. Oliver Wunsch

Oliver Wunsch is a transaction lawyer and founding partner of valbeek. For more than 20 years, Oliver Wunsch has advised national and international (listed) corporate groups, financial investors, family-owned and private companies as well as individuals on national and cross-border transactions and other corporate law issues. A particular focus of his practice is advising on M&A and private equity transactions, exit processes, carve-out transactions, joint ventures as well as public takeovers and public-to-private transactions. He has extensive experience in advising on complex structured auction procedures as well as on medium-sized company and investment transactions. In addition, he is a competent and experienced counsel in all matters of corporate, stock corporation, capital market and takeover law as well as for transaction-related dispute resolution.

Oliver offers his clients clear, understandable and practicable solutions and communication at eye level, in addition to his proven legal expertise. With Oliver, clients engage a lawyer for whom the personal side of every deal is just as important as the legal side; he is aware that each transaction involves people with their respective needs and stories.

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Oliver Wunsch publishes in the areas of mergers & acquisitions and corporate law and is quoted in leading practice manuals and articles.

Oliver Wunsch was born in Celle in 1973. From 1995 to 2000, he studied law at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg. After his studies, he completed the course to become a specialist tax lawyer. In 2002, he received his doctorate in law from the University of Hamburg. He completed his legal clerkship from 2002 to 2004 in Lower Saxony, Hamburg and San Francisco, U.S.A. From the beginning of 2004 to 2009, he worked as a Corporate & M&A lawyer at the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. From 2009 to 2023 he was a founding partner of the Corporate / M&A Boutique law firm VOIGT WUNSCH HOLLER Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten. Since 2024, Oliver Wunsch is a founding partner of valbeek Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB.

Handelsblatt and the US specialist publisher Best Lawyers have been ranking Oliver Wunsch among Germany's best business lawyers for many years. He has been listed for his work in all of his main five practice areas mergers and acquisitions (since 2013), private equity (since 2018), corporate law (since 2013), capital market law (since 2013) and venture capital (since 2012). He was also named “Lawyer of the Year” for capital markets law and venture capital.

The JUVE Handbook of German Commercial Law Firms refers to Oliver Wunsch as frequently recommended and lists him among Germany's leading lawyers for M&A and private equity transactions. In this handbook, Oliver Wunsch is described by competitors and clients as “outstanding in M&A”, a “very well-versed transaction lawyer”, who “approaches deals pragmatically”, “very competent in corporate law”, as a “prudent corporate lawyer” with a “view for the strategic” and “client-oriented”.

In the Kanzleimonitor issued by the German Association of In-house Lawyers (Bundesverband der Unternehmensjuristen e.V) Oliver Wunsch has been named from the start as one of the M&A lawyers particularly recommended in Germany. Legal 500 Deutschland also lists Oliver Wunsch as a distinguished lawyer.