JUVE Handbook of Corporate Law Firms 2025/2026: GRUENDELPARTNER is the leading firm in the VC/PE sector

Leipzig, Erfurt, Berlin – The team at Gruendelpartner is once again recommended in the latest edition of the JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2025/2026 as “the leading firm” for venture capital and private equity transactions in Central Germany. In addition to its expertise in company law, GRUENDELPARTNER’s strengths in employment and tax law are also highlighted (www.juve.de).

The ranking underscores GRUENDELPARTNER’s focus and expertise in transaction-related work as well as in employment, tax and competition law.

With its main office in Leipzig and further offices in Erfurt and Berlin, GRUENDELPARTNER has a strong supra-regional presence. In the current ranking, JUVE also highlights positive internal developments: following a structural reorganisation and the divestment of the real estate law, construction law and architectural law practice areas – which are no longer part of the firm’s core focus – at the end of 2024, the firm has modernised its IT infrastructure and further expanded its tax structuring advisory services. In particular, the closer involvement of tax partner Ramona Luckner in transaction and succession planning has contributed to the further diversification of the firm’s advisory services.

“We are delighted that our strategic reorientation, focus and specialisation – which began in early 2025 and is designed for the long term – has been so positively received in the industry-leading JUVE handbook,” says Dr Steffen Fritzsche, Lead Partner for Venture Capital.“The increasing integration of tax advisory services, both in the transactions sector and in the significantly expanded segment of succession planning, as well as the use of increasingly complex IT and AI solutions, are right at the top of our to-do list, and we look forward to continuing on this path with an expanded team,”adds Ramona Luckner, Tax and HR Partner.