About Daniel
Daniel is a Partner at LARK. He practises law for over 15 years in the areas M&A/Private Equity and Venture Capital with a proven track record, often in a cross-border context.
In these areas he advises international and domestic private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, strategic investors as well as entrepreneurs (both on buy- and sell side). In Venture Capital Daniel often advises institutional VC funds as well as start-ups and scale ups, also in secondary transactions.
After starting his career at Kirkland & Ellis in Munich and New York, Daniel gradually expanded his practice which led him to co-found the M&A and Venture Capital boutique law firm Momentum Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater.
Daniel completed his legal studies at the University of Regensburg (Dr. jur.) and graduated as a scholarship holder of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) from the University of Oxford (St. Edmund Hall, M.jur.) with distinction.
While being a generalist, Daniel’s practice often focusses on technology transactions in the sectors software, high tech and travel.
Areas of expertise
M&A
Private Equity
Venture Capital
Corporate Law
Recent Representative Matters
Private Equity
- Andra Tech Group/Castik Capital on the acquisition of Innotec Zerspanungstechnik GmbH*
- Equistone Capital Partners on several transactions*
- Investcorp on acquisition of Veda GmbH*
- Unigestion on acquisition of Springer Fachmedien München*
- BE Beteiligungen on sale of Lansol Datacenter GmbH to the listed WIIT Group*
- Bain Capital on several matters*
- Partners Group on several matters*
- Sun Capital on several matters*
Shareholders/Founders
- Shareholders of Stackfield on secondary transaction to Nordwind Capital*
- Shareholders of Probonio on sale to Brockhaus Technology AG*
- Shareholders of Easybill on sale to Lea Partners*
- Shareholder of traffics on sale to Travelsoft S.A.*
- Shareholders of Vertoura Versicherungsmakler to MRH Trowe (portfolio of BC Partners)*
- Shareholders of Leasingtime on sale to leasingmarkt.de/Autoscout (Hellman&Friedman)*
- Shareholders of Netrange on sale to listed Access Group (Japan)*
- Management of pflege.de on sale to Hartmann Group*
Venture Capital
- Finconomy AG on investment in Comitly GmbH*
- Hi Inov Dentressangle on several matters (inter alia, investment in awork GmbH and Kenjo GmbH)*
- Seventure Partners on investment in Flexvelop*
- Heycater during several investment rounds*
- Sonnenwelt/Xando LLC on investment by Crosslantic Capital*
*processed in previous law firm
Publications & Speeches
Wied, Kaspar in GWR 2022, p. 120: Profit claim under indirect employee participation is of a corporate legal nature
Wied in GWR 2020, p. 269: Jurisdiction for payment claims under a virtual employee stock option program
Wied in GmbHR 2016, p. 15 ff.: Dealing with unknown minority shareholders after a change of legal form to German limited liability company
Wied in RIW 2015, p. 326 ff.: Rulings in the M&A Environment by U.S. courts, a look across the pond
Wied in GmbHR 2014, p. 908 ff.: Equipment of a joint venture German limited liability company by its shareholders and limits to be observed
Wied in RIW 2013, p. 768 ff.: “Best efforts” clauses under German law – interpretation and legal consequences
Wied in NZG 2012, p. 725 ff.: Payments into the capital reserve of a German limited liability company by fictitious shareholders
Life beyond Lark
If Daniel would not have pursued a legal career he would probably search for old Greek inscriptions in ancient ruins. In his leisure time he loves to spend time with his two kids, enjoys several sports (running, tennis) and loves to listen and occasionally dance to electronic music.