Berlin – A YPOG Team led by Stephan Bank and Helder Schnittker provided comprehensive corporate, tax and regulatory advice to early-stage investor BlueYard Capital (“BlueYard”) on the structuring of its third main fund BlueYard 3, a $185 million (approx. €173 million) early-stage fund focusing on investments in web services, web applications, information technology, software and mobile communication.
By relying on Stephan Helder and their team, BlueYard continues a longstanding successful client relationship, which includes the structuring of BlueYard 1 and BlueYard 2, each a $120 million (approx. €115 million) predecessor fund of BlueYard 3, and also related transaction work as well as ongoing advice.
With the new fund, BlueYard continues its strategy of operating as an early-stage lead investor emphasizing technologies for a prosperous and sustainable future. Over the past 12 months, BlueYard has invested in 17 portfolio companies such as zK-SNARK hardware acceleration, RNA to protein manipulation and programmable chemistry. BlueYard 3 brings the total amount of assets managed by BlueYard to $500 million (approx. €479 million).
Advisors BlueYard Capital:
Dr. Stephan Bank (Co-Lead, Structuring/Corporate), Partner
Dr. Helder Schnittker (Co-Lead, Structuring/Tax), Partner
Lennart Lorenz (Regulatory), Partner
Dr. Michael Filipowicz (Structuring/Corporate), Senior Associate
Dr. Dajo Sanning (Tax), Associate
Ivo Schmiedt (Structuring), Associate
Dr. Friedrich Wöhlecke (Tax), Associate
Antonia von Treuenfeld (Regulatory/ESG), Associate
Sylwia Luszczek (Investor Onboarding), Legal Project Manager
About BlueYard Capital
BlueYard is an early-stage venture capital firm backing founders building the fundamental fabric layer technologies required to build a positive outlook for humanity: from web 3 for an open and immutable internet, programmable biology to enhance human resilience to breakthrough engineering & computation to ensure an increase of humanity's computational capabilities and the ability to mitigate climate breakdown risks. The firm was founded in 2016, manages four funds with a total assets under management of $500 million, mainly from US university endowments, foundations, families and selected fund of funds.
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YPOG stands for You + Partners of Gamechangers – forward-thinking legal and tax advice. Supporting companies that are focused on emerging technologies, YPOG embraces change as an opportunity to develop cutting-edge solutions. The YPOG team offers comprehensive expertise in the areas of Funds, Tax, Transactions, Corporate, Banking, Regulatory + Finance, IP/IT/Data Protection, Litigation, and Corporate Crime + Compliance + Investigations. YPOG is one of the leading law firms in Germany for venture capital, private equity, fund structuring, and the implementation of distributed ledger technology (DLT) in financial services. Both the firm and its partners are regularly recognized by renowned national and international publications such as JUVE, Best Lawyers, Chambers and Partners, Leaders League, and Legal 500. YPOG is home to more than 150 experienced attorneys, tax advisors and tax specialists as well as a notary, working across offices in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, and Munich.
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