Dr. Michael Filipowicz

Education and Career

Michael studied law at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and the University of Hong Kong. He earned a doctorate degree at the Humboldt University of Berlin. During his legal traineeship, he worked as a legal counsel at the Berlin e-mobility start-up ubitricity.

Before joining YPOG, Michael worked as an Associate at Linklaters in Berlin for several years, where he advised project developers, funds and banks on joint ventures, project agreements and M&A transactions in the field of renewable energy. As part of the Linklaters Digital Economy Group, he also advised on legal aspects of novel business models in the technology sector.

Experience

Michael’s recent work highlights include advising:

• La Famiglia on the merger with General Catalyst (2024)
• Allianz X on their investment in heycar and heycar’s corporate governance (2023)
• The founders of AMANA Consulting GmbH on its sale to LucaNet AG (2023)
• ELEMENT Insurance AG on multiple financing rounds and the restructuring of their employee participation program (2023)
• Brookfield in the restructuring of the employee participation program at Thermondo GmbH (2023)
• HV Capital on the structuring on its ninth main fund with a total volume of more than € 700 million and a focus on innovative tech companies in all growth phases (2023)
  
• PropTech1 Ventures on the structuring of its ninth flagship fund PT1 Early-Stage Fund II with a total volume of € 100 million and a focus on early-stage investments in the property sector (2023)
• Speedinvest on the structuring of its newest flagship fund Speedinvest 4 with a total volume of € 500 million and a focus on pre-seed and seed tech startups (2022)
• Cherry Ventures on the structuring of its fourth main fund Cherry IV with a total volume of € 300 million and a focus on pre-seed and seed investments in the technology sector (2022)
• BlueYard Capital on the structuring of its third main fund BlueYard 3 with a total volume of € 185 million and a focus on investments in web services, web applications, information technology, software and mobile communications (2022)
• Digital Transformation Capital Partners on the implementation of a co-investment fund structure for a joint investment with Art-Invest Real Estate in the data center operator maincubes one with a total volume of more than € 1 billion (2022)

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