Dr. Frederik Gärtner

Education and Career

Frederik studied law in Berlin and Kiel as well as law and management at the Executive School of Management, Technology and Law of the University of St. Gallen. Frederik began his legal career with Hengeler Mueller in Frankfurt and Düsseldorf. Before co-founding YPOG, Frederik worked at SMP, was Counsel at the FinTech Raisin (weltsparen.de) and founded the LegalTech start-up Conny.legal.

Experience

Frederik's recent work highlights include advising:

• Sunfire on its € 215 million Series E financing round with LGT Bank, GIC, Lightrock und Planet First Partners
• Allianz X on the investment in the mobility joint venture Heycar (with VW, Daimler and Renault)
• Neobroker Trade Republic on various corporate law issues
• Shopping community provider Pepper.com (mydealz, hotukdeals) on the merger with Global Savings Group and the acquisition of Savings United
• Shareholders of the affiliate marketing company digidip on the sale to Waterland Private Equity/Yieldkit
• Digital health start-up FORMEL Skin on all financing rounds (most recently EUR 30m Series A with Singular)
• Crypto-as-a-Service start-up Pile.capital on funding round with Anthemis, Ilavska Vuillermoz, w3fund, Barclays Female Innovators Lab and Auxxo
• Project A Ventures on numerous VC investments (including Amazd, Anyline, Baobab, Casavo, Dalma, ExpressSteuer, Heyflow, Knowunity, Laserhub, Trade Republic,
  Vaeridion, Vay, Yababa) and exits (Gabi to Experian (volume: $320 million), Eyeota to Dun & Bradstreet (volume: $165 million))
• Logistics start-up Everstox on all financing rounds (most recently EUR 30m Series A with Acton)
• Shareholders of big data start-up Data Artisans on sale to Alibaba (ETR: AHLA)
• Formwork and scaffolding manufacturer PERI on the acquisition of Implenia's formwork business (SWX: IMPN) and on the investment in ConTech start-up Cosuno
• APEX Ventures on various VC investments (including Mindpeak, Mobius Labs, Ororatech, Yuri Gravity)
• InsurTech start-up InsureQ on all financing rounds
• 42CAP on numerous VC investments and on the exit of BioTech start-up Allcyte to Exscientia (NASDAQ: EXAI)
• Web3 startup Otterspace in funding round with Cherry Crypto, Inflection, Bessemer Venture Partners, Coinbase Ventures, btov and Paua Ventures
• btov, Endeit Capital and Project A Ventures on Comtravo's exit to TripActions
• Open payroll provider Mistho on funding round with Lightbird, Nauta Capital, GFC as well as FinVC
• Shareholders of FinTech start-up TTMzero in the sale to United Fintech
• PropTech start-up Gropyus on acquisition of BSH production from Mayr-Melnhof
• Five Season Ventures on Series B financing rounds of Air-up (EUR 40m) and YFood
• Shareholders of the product comparison platform LionsHome on the sale to Waterland Private Equity
• Business Angels on the sale of FinTech start-up Cash Payment Solutions (barzahlen.de) to the Japanese Glory Group
• PropTech start-up Homeday on Series B financing round with Axel Springer (EUR 40m)
• FinTech start-up CrossLend on Series A and Series B financing round with participation of Santander InnoVentures, ABN Amro, Lakestar and Earlybird (EUR 35m)
• Shareholders of Testroom on the merger with Contentfleet (Ströer Group).