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Philipp Glock

Lawyer │ Partner

Frankfurt a.M.

+49 69 27229 24619

philipp.glock@luther-lawfirm.com

Areas of practice

Corporate/M&A

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Start-ups & Venture Capital

Philipp Glock structures and negotiates all forms of venture capital and private equity investments for national and international financial investors (venture capital and private equity funds, family offices and business angels).
He also supports start-ups and founders from inception to exit and advises national and international companies and entrepreneurial families in connection with traditional (M&A) transactions, intra-group restructuring, corporate governance issues, legal disputes and all ongoing corporate law matters.

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Vita

Philipp Glock studied law at the Universities of Mannheim and Tübingen, specialising in corporate law, and completed additional business studies at the University of Mannheim. He was also a scholarship holder of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.

He is a lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management in the M&A Master's programme and in the Venture Capital certificate programme, and a lecturer for the ‘StartMiUp Network’ at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU), the Philipps University of Marburg (UMR) and the Technical University of Central Hesse (THM) under the umbrella of the Research Campus Central Hesse (FCMH).

Philipp Glock is a regular speaker at nationwide venture capital and private equity events, participates as an expert/juror in start-up competitions and is involved in various initiatives and networks in the venture capital and private equity scene.

Honors and distinctions

JUVE Guide 2025/2026: Listed under "Frequently Recommended" in "Private Equity and Venture Capital" (first listed in 2023/2024, "Simply superb; excellent cooperation with the team as well," client)
The Legal 500 Germany 2026: Recommendation in the category “Venture Capital” (first recommendation in 2023, “Philipp Glock and Dominique Kurtz are a fantastic team who are available around the clock when needed and have outstanding expertise, which made them the trusted advisors in the deal accepted by all shareholders; this led to the completion of a complex investment round with more than 10 investors.‘”) and mentioned in “Corporate Law and M&A – M&A Medium-Sized Deals (- EUR 500m)”
The Legal 500 Germany 2025: Mentioned in “City Focus – Frankfurt”
Best Lawyers 2026: Recommendation in "Ones to Watch" in "Corporate Law" (first recommendation in 2025)

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Clients

Advising VR Equitypartner GmbH and NRW.BANK on the acquisition of a majority stake in TOP-Sport
Advising AG Capital (Vienna) on its investment in the Schubert Touristik Group
Advising AG Capital (Vienna) on its investment in the Weber Cleaning Technologies Group
Advised VR Equitypartner GmbH and NRW.BANK on the acquisition of a majority stake in TOP-Sport
Advised AG Capital (Vienna) on its investment in the Schubert Touristik Group
Advised AG Capital (Vienna) on its investment in the Weber Cleaning Technologies Group
Advised AG Capital (Vienna) on the acquisition of a stake in CD-LUX Warenhandelsgesellschaft mbH
Advised init innovation in traffic systems SE (Karlsruhe) on the acquisition of DILAX Intelcom GmbH from VR Equitypartner GmbH (Frankfurt a.M.)
Advised VR Equitypartner GmbH (Frankfurt a.M.) and AG Capital GmbH (Vienna) on the acquisition of shares in the smart card provider IDENTA Ausweissysteme GmbH
Advised AG Capital (Vienna) on the acquisition of a stake in Layenberger Nutrition Group GmbH
Advised E.ON on the acquisition of a majority stake in the smart-grid start-up gridX
Advised a globally operating energy service company on a large number of serial M&A transactions
Advised on the acquisition of seven companies by a British group of companies
Advised and represented GoingPublic Media AG on the sale of its VentureCapital Magazine division
Structured, negotiated and implemented a large number of investment and financing rounds and employee participation plans organised by start-ups (StudySmarter, Innok Robotics, BIOVOX, Symphera, OCELL, navou, WechselGott, Mapify Travel, Easy-Tutor, Staffbase, ParkDepot, Aivy, Implify, Solarnative, Askui, ModuGen and PLAZA, among others)
Structured, negotiated and implemented exit transactions of start-ups (for example, Mapify Travel to HomeToGo)