Dr Bernt Paudtke specialises in corporate law, with a focus on M&A, private equity, venture capital and capital markets law. He offers advice primarily to investors and companies involved in national and international corporate acquisitions and equity capital finance, as well as listed and non-listed companies, on all aspects of corporate law, in particular also in connection with capital measures and general meetings. Moreover, he offers advice in the area of capital markets law, and in connection with takeover bids and mandatory offers in accordance with the German Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act (WpÜG). Dr Bernt Paudtke has comprehensive expertise in the technology sector, and acts as mentor for new businesses.

Dr Bernt Paudtke is a partner at GÖRG Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB and has been head of the Corporate/M&A/Tax Department since 2021.

Before joining GÖRG in 2008, he worked as a lawyer at various national and international business law firms in Munich.

After studying law at Heidelberg University, Dr Bernt Paudtke completed his legal training in Kempten with a clerkship at a business law firm in Munich. He then obtained his doctorate in law from Heidelberg University under Prof Dr Reinhard Mußgnug, with a thesis on a topic of constitutional law.

He was admitted to the bar in 2000.

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