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SMP is pleased to announce that over the last weeks, its Team had the honor of being involved in a further wide range of startup funding rounds in the venture capital sector.

SMP advised KKA on the structuring of its second fund and at the same time advised this fund on the acquisition of Xantaro Holding GmbH and its subsidiaries, Xantaro Deutschland GmbH and Xantaro UK Ltd.).

SMP is pleased to announce that over the last weeks, it had the honor of being involved in a further wide range of startup funding rounds in the venture capital sector.

SMP provided comprehensive legal advice to Leaps by Bayer on the Series B financing round of Berlin-based digital health company Ada Health.

SMP advised the French investor Five Seasons Ventures on the Series A financing round of vly.

SMP advised early-stage investor and operating VC Project A on its Series C investment in FinTech Trade Republic.

SMP is pleased to announce that over the last weeks, it had the honor of being involved in a further wide range of startup funding rounds in the venture capital sector.

SMP's Martin Schaper advised 1717 Life Science Ventures on the sale of its stake in drug developer PENTIXAPHARM to Eckert & Ziegler Strahlen- und Medizintechnik AG.

According to the comdirect Fintech Study 2020, in 2019approximately € 1.755 billion in funding flowed into German FinTech companies in 149 financing rounds. Numerous of the most important German FinTech and InsurTech companies have their own regulatory licenses and are subject to direct supervision by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and/or the German Federal Bank (Bundesbank). These authorities ensure that the applicable regulatory requirements are fulfilled and complied with.