Dr Jonas Weise

Jonas advises companies and shareholders comprehensively on all issues of corporate law. Key practice areas include providing legal support to national and cross-border M&A transactions, venture capital financings and joint venture projects. Another key practice area is corporate restructuring. Jonas also has in-depth expertise in out-of-court and in-court support in complex shareholder disputes and advises companies, management and supervisory bodies on all corporate governance issues, in particular with regard to existing duties and any matters of personal liability.

He is a member of the Corporate and Commercial Law Practice Group and the Corporate Transactions (M&A) Competence Team.

Recent work

• EWE AG in a joint venture with the Austrian energy supplier Verbund AG to construct a 500 MW electrolyser in the Wesermarsch region
• Operators of abattoirs in the attempted acquisition of abattoirs from the VION portfolio
• Single Family Office in the recapitalisation of a joint venture to construct a landmark building in a major German city
• A railway construction company in connection with a management buy-out (MBO)
• The owner of a medium-sized electrical engineering company in connection with a sale to a strategic investor based in Austria
• Ongoing corporate law advice to a leading German family-owned company in the roofing solutions sector, as well as on various M&A projects
• CURRENTA GmbH & Co. OHG in relation to intra-group cash pooling
• A leading German company in the field of precision optics in connection with a planned joint venture
• The winding-up agency of a major bank in connection with group consolidation by way of a merger
• A leading European tunnelling company in connection with the acquisition of shares in a track-laying company
• The STEIL Group in connection with the acquisition of a majority stake in Rhein Main Rohstoffe GmbH
• A listed company in the railway technology sector in connection with a strategic acquisition in the Netherlands
• Shareholders of a family-run company specialising in high-pressure solutions in connection with its sale to a Norwegian group
• A shopping centre project developer in a cross-border shareholder dispute
• A venture capital fund in various investments in the form of equity investments and convertible loans in German start-ups
• A major Belgian bakery group in a joint venture with a German competitor
• PropTech start-ups in connection with the investment by a family office
• A German subsidiary of a Swedish private equity fund in the near-insolvency acquisition of a company in the building services sector
• A German PropTech venture capital fund in various investments in German PropTech start-ups
• A primary insurer in the acquisition of a stake in an Italian insurance broker
• A US automotive supplier in a proposed investment in a German automotive start-up

Curriculum vitae

• Studied law at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 2009 to 2014
• Research assistant to Frau Prof. Dr. Katharina Lugani, at the Chair for German, European and International Private and Procedural Law at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 2015 to 2018
• PhD on the question of international jurisdiction in cartel damage claims, 2015 to 2020
• Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court Düsseldorf, 2018 to 2020
• Lawyer at Kapellmann Düsseldorf, 2020 to 2022
• Lawyer at Oppenhoff & Partner in Cologne, 2022 to 2023
• Lawyer at Kapellmann Düsseldorf since 2023