Dr. Sebastian Sumalvico Europajurist (Univ. Würzburg) LUTZ | ABEL

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Dr. Sebastian Sumalvico Europajurist (Univ. Würzburg)

Dr. Sebastian Sumalvico Europajurist (Univ. Würzburg) LUTZ | ABEL

Profile details

Dr. Sebastian Sumalvico advises investors, startups and founders on financing rounds and M&A transactions. A special role in his consulting practice is the support of startups in raising venture debt and similar debt instruments.

Furthermore, he specialises in advising on management and employee participations as well as employee and management incentives of all kinds.

  • Corporate law
  • Venture capital / Venture Debt / M&A
  • Management and employee shareholdings
  • Legal 500 Germany & EMEA 2024: Recommended lawyer
  • Handelsblatt & Best Lawyers 2023 | 2024: "Ones to Watch" for venture capital law in Germany
  • Lawyer at LUTZ | ABEL since 2019
  • Lawyer at a leading German transaction law firm, 2016 – 2018
  • Admission to the bar, 2016
  • Doctorate (Dr. jur.) in international tax law at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, 2016
  • Legal clerkship in Würzburg, 2014 – 2016
  • Studies of law with accompanying studies in European law at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg and the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2006 – 2012
  • Singular on EUR 15 m series A financing of Heyflow
  • Sunvigo in EUR 20 m growth financing
  • vialytics on EUR 10 m series A financing round
  • Adjacent and Union Square Ventures on EUR 9.3 m series A financing round of Ostrom
  • Singular on EUR 6 m seed round of Climatiq
  • Mosaic Ventures on EUR 5 m financing round of Ninetailed
  • Holidu GmbH on EUR 100 Mio. series E financing round
  • Singular on EUR 27 m series A financing round of Patronus Group
  • Astanor Ventures on EUR 8.5 million series A financing round of MicroHarvest
  • ELISE on EUR 14.5 MIO series A financing round
  • Liefergrün on EUR 12 million series A financing round
  • Shareholders of automation pioneer Solvemate on USD 43 m dual acquisition by Dixa
  • Holidu GmbH on EUR 100 m series E financing round
  • Singular on EUR 27 m series-A financing round of Patronus
  • Holidu GmbH in raising over EUR 25 m Venture Debt from Claret Capital and Silicon Valley Bank
  • Astanor Ventures on series A financing round if MicroHarvest GmbH
  • Candis in raising Venture Debt from Silicon Valley Bank
  • Sunvigo on EUR 15 m series A financing round
  • Flip on USD 30 m series A financing round
  • Cognigy on USD 44 m series B financing round
  • WeSustain on the sale to Cority
  • Perpetual Investors GmbH on USD 160 m series D financing round of sennder GmbH
  • Clark on EUR 69m series C financing round
  • Heal Capital on series A financing round of CereGate GmbH
  • Notion Capital on EUR 7m series A financing round of claimsforce

Articles

"Ones to Watch for venture capital law in Germany."

Handelsblatt & Best Lawyers 2023

28.06.2024

Venture Capital / M&A

LUTZ | ABEL professionals advised Singular in $ 7.4 M seed funding of Synthflow AI

Dr. Sebastian Sumalvico and Roman Krug advised Singular in $ 7.4 M seed funding of Synthflow AI. The round was led by Singular accompanied by existing investor Atlantic Labs and respected investors in the AI space. The Berlin-based AI voice assistant…

04.03.2024

Venture Capital / M&A

LUTZ | ABEL Professionals advised Singular on €15 million series a financing of Heyflow

LUTZ | ABEL professionals Dr. Sebastian Sumalvico and Roman Krug advised Singular on €15 million series A financing round of Heyflow. The Hamburg-based start-up Heyflow offers a software platform designed to help companies achieve more successful marketing…

13.09.2023

Venture Capital / M&A

LUTZ | ABEL Professionals advised mammaly in EUR 14 M financing round

LUTZ | ABEL professionals led by Dr. Sebastian Sumalvico advised mammaly in its EUR 14 M financing round. Since its founding in 2020 mammaly develops pet food supplements with natural micronutrients that improve the well-being of pets. Among others Five…

29.08.2023

Venture Capital / M&A

LUTZ I ABEL advised founders in exit transaction of Aitme

LUTZ | ABEL professionals Dr. Sebastian Sumalvico and Frank Hahn advised Aitme’s founders on the sale of Aitme to Hamburg-based start-up CIRCUS Kitchen. Founded in 2019, Aitme has developed a cooking robot to market maturity as a fully automated canteen…

04.07.2023

Venture Capital / M&A

LUTZ | ABEL advises Klarx GmbH in EUR 11,5 M series b extension

LUTZ | ABEL professionals Dr. Marco Eickmann, Dr. Sebastian Sumalvico and Andrea Dürr advised klarx GmbH in raising EUR 11.5 M in its Series B Extension. Founded in 2015 by Matthias Handschuh, Florian Handschuh, and Vincent Koch, klarx operates an online…

19.04.2023

Venture Capital / M&A

LUTZ | ABEL advises sunvigo in EUR 20 M growth financing

LUTZ | ABEL professionals Dr. Marco Eickmann, Dr. Sebastian Sumalvico and Andrea Dürr advised Sunvigo in raising a EUR 20 M growth financing. Future Energy Ventures and Triodos Energy Transition Europe Fund invested a total of EUR 12 M together with existing…

04.02.2020

Venture Capital / M&A

LUTZ | ABEL advises Nitrobox in single-digit million financing round

The software start-up Nitrobox GmbH from Germany announced to have completed a financing round in the single-digit million euro range.

27.01.2020

Venture Capital / M&A

LUTZ | ABEL advises AlphaPet Ventures in equity financing and acquisition

AlphaPet Ventures GmbH secures equity financing led by capiton AG and acquires Healthfood24.

21.11.2019

Venture Capital / M&A

LUTZ | ABEL advises fintech start-up Tomorrow in its series A equity financing

Fintech Tomorrow closed EUR 8.5 Mio series A equity financing. The Hamburg-based sustainable mobile banking provider plans to expand to the European market within the next year.

13.11.2019

Venture Capital / M&A

LUTZ | ABEL advises RTP Global in EUR 10 mio series A2 financing at CoachHub

CoachHub, located in Berlin, managed to secure EUR 10 million within the frame of a series A2-financing round. Leading investor is the international early stage investor RTP Global, while the current investors HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Partech and Speedinvest…