Wanwitz, Ivo Veit

Ivo Veit J. Wanwitz

Associate

ivo.wanwitz@lw.com
    Wanwitz, Ivo Veit

    Ivo Veit J. Wanwitz

    Associate

    ivo.wanwitz@lw.com

    Profile

    Dr. Ivo Veit J. Wanwitz is an associate in the Corporate Department of Latham’s Hamburg office.

    Ivo advises German and international strategic and private equity investors on national and cross-border transactions with a particular focus on preferred and structured equity transactions, joint ventures, and other M&A matters, including at the intersection of corporate finance. He also advises on general corporate law matters.

    He has extensive experience working with clients from a wide range of industries. His work has a particular focus on real estate as well as asset-heavy energy and infrastructure investments, including transactions and project developments. His experience covers a wide variety of real estate asset classes as well as digital infrastructure, renewable energies, hydrogen, and gas.

    He is admitted to practice law in Germany (as Rechtsanwalt) and in California. Prior to joining the firm as an associate, Ivo worked as a law clerk and as a trainee lawyer in Latham’s Finance and Corporate Departments in Hamburg and Los Angeles.

    Ivo has been named as one of the “Best Lawyers – Ones to Watch” for corporate law since 2024 and for mergers and acquisitions in 2025 by Best Lawyers and Handelsblatt.

    Experience

    Ivo’s representative experience includes advising:

    • Brookfield on its acquisition of a light-industrial assets portfolio in Sweden
    • Demant on its agreement to acquire KIND Group
    • ZAVA Global on the sale to listed US-based Hims & Hers Health, Inc. 
    • Bregal on the sale of a majority stake in ACTICO Group
    • OneIM and OCP on the acquisition of Adler Group’s €422.5 million “Cosmopolitan” portfolio, located in North Rhine-Westphalia 
    • Apollo on:
      • The €3.2 billion investment in joint venture with RWE
      • The €1 billion investment in Deutsche Wohnen SE
    • Joint Venture of Körber and KKR on the acquisition of MercuryGate 
    • Brookfield on its preferred equity investment in a Cologne residential project
    • Wintershall Dea on the sale of its stake in WIGA
    • KKR on its strategic partnership with Encavis AG
    • PAI Partners on its joint venture with Nestlé
    • Deutsche Beteiligungs AG on its investment in freiheit.com
    • GIP and KKR on the strategic partnership with Vodafone to invest in Vantage Towers
    • IFM Investors on its joint venture with Deutsche Telekom
    • Swiss Life Asset Management AG and Gelsenwasser AG on the acquisition of Infrareal
    • Swiss Life Asset Management AG and Vauban Infrastructure Partners on:
      • The squeeze-out of Aves One AG
      • The takeover offer for Aves One
    • TeamViewer AG on its conversion into a European stock Corporation (Societas Europea, SE) 

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • California
    • Rechtsanwalt (Germany)

    Education

    • Dr. iur., Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen, Germany, 2021
    • Second German State Exam, Higher Regional Court, Hamburg, 2019
    • First German State Exam, Bucerius Law School, 2016
    • LL.B., Bucerius Law School, 2015

    Languages Spoken

    • German
    • English
    • French
    • Swedish

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