Senior Associate, Hamburg Office

Education and Career

Adrian studied law at Bucerius Law School (Hamburg), Humboldt University (Berlin) and Stellenbosch University (South Africa). His legal training included stints at a large international law firm and at the First Circuit Court of O’ahu (Honolulu, Hawai’i). 

After that, he was a research fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (Berlin) as well as a visiting research fellow at the University of Parma (Italy) and at Harvard Law School. Before joining SMP, Adrian was an Associate at Flick Gocke Schaumburg.

Experience

Adrian’s recent work highlights include advising: 

• Atomico, Battery Ventures, Lightspeed Ventures and various other international venture capital funds on their investments in portfolio companies in Germany
• Acton Capital Partners, Project A Ventures, Signals Venture Capital and many other venture capital investors on their investments in portfolio companies
• Flaschenpost, Raisin, IDnow, Wunder Mobility, Choco Communications, Cluno, Zenjob and numerous other technology companies on their financing rounds as well as on corporate law matters
• Signals Venture Capital in connection with the acquisition of Circ by Bird
• Shareholders in Priori Data on the sale to AppScatter (AIM:APPS)