Berlin \u2013 Project A is parti\u00adci\u00adpa\u00adting in a EUR 500 million finan\u00adcing round for the defense startup Stark. YPOG provi\u00added compre\u00adhen\u00adsive advice to Project A on struc\u00adtu\u00adring the invest\u00adment vehic\u00adles and the Series C invest\u00adment in the Berlin-based defense startup Stark. The advi\u00adsory services covered regu\u00adla\u00adtory, tax, and corpo\u00adrate law issues, as well as tran\u00adsac\u00adtion support for the EUR 500 million finan\u00adcing round. The round was led by Sequoia Capi\u00adtal and Foun\u00adders Fund, among others. <\/p>\n
Stark<\/strong> is a defense tech\u00adno\u00adlogy company foun\u00added in 2024 and head\u00adquar\u00adte\u00adred in Berlin<\/strong>. The company deve\u00adlops soft\u00adware-driven, AI-powered unman\u00adned systems for Euro\u00adpean and NATO armed forces\u2014including loite\u00adring muni\u00adti\u00adons and swarm technology\u2014that are opera\u00adtio\u00adnal even in highly conge\u00adsted elec\u00adtro\u00adnic envi\u00adron\u00adments. Stark is one of the fastest-growing defense start\u00adups in Europe and colla\u00adbo\u00adra\u00adtes with the German Armed Forces (Bundes\u00adwehr) and other NATO part\u00adner nati\u00adons, among others, which are alre\u00adady using systems such as the Virtus plat\u00adform in procu\u00adre\u00adment and test\u00ading programs. <\/p>\n More than 80% of the newly raised capi\u00adtal is to be inves\u00adted directly in rese\u00adarch, deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment, and the expan\u00adsion of produc\u00adtion capa\u00adcity in Europe\u2014including addi\u00adtio\u00adnal rese\u00adarch faci\u00adli\u00adties in the field of elec\u00adtro\u00adnic warfare and scaling up produc\u00adtion to seve\u00adral thousand systems per month. Most recently, Stark expan\u00added into the United King\u00addom and Sweden, acqui\u00adred the Berlin-based soft\u00adware company Pleno, and secu\u00adred a contract from the German Armed Forces worth 268 million EUR. <\/p>\n \u201cThis mandate demons\u00adtra\u00adtes how tran\u00adsac\u00adtion advi\u00adsory and fund struc\u00adtu\u00adring go hand in hand at YPOG\u2014from struc\u00adtu\u00adring invest\u00adment vehic\u00adles and desig\u00adning tax struc\u00adtures, to navi\u00adga\u00adting regu\u00adla\u00adtory frame\u00adworks, to nego\u00adtia\u00adting with inves\u00adtors,\u201d says Dr. Stephan Bank, part\u00adner at YPOG (photo)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are plea\u00adsed to support Project A in this signi\u00adfi\u00adcant finan\u00adcing round for Stark. The tran\u00adsac\u00adtion marks another mile\u00adstone in our long-stan\u00adding colla\u00adbo\u00adra\u00adtion, during which we have had the oppor\u00adtu\u00adnity to provide legal support to Project A on nume\u00adrous tech\u00adno\u00adlogy-driven invest\u00adments,\u201d adds Dr. Frede\u00adrik G\u00e4rt\u00adner, a part\u00adner at YPOG.<\/p>\n YPOG and Project A have a long-stan\u00adding part\u00adner\u00adship. The law firm has been advi\u00adsing Project A for seve\u00adral years on nume\u00adrous finan\u00adcing rounds and tran\u00adsac\u00adtions and has also supported the venture capi\u00adtal inves\u00adtor from the very begin\u00adning in struc\u00adtu\u00adring and setting up all of its invest\u00adment vehicles. <\/p>\n Team YPOG:<\/strong><\/p>\n Struc\u00adtu\u00adring: Tran\u00adsac\u00adtion: www.ypog.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Berlin \u2013 Project A is parti\u00adci\u00adpa\u00adting in a EUR 500 million finan\u00adcing round for the defense startup Stark. YPOG provi\u00added compre\u00adhen\u00adsive advice to Project A on struc\u00adtu\u00adring the invest\u00adment vehic\u00adles and the Series C invest\u00adment in the Berlin-based defense startup Stark. The advi\u00adsory services covered regu\u00adla\u00adtory, tax, and corpo\u00adrate law issues, as well as transaction [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1366],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nDr. Stephan Bank (Lead, Funds), Part\u00adner, Berlin
\nDr. Helder Schnitt\u00adker (Lead, Tax Struc\u00adtu\u00adring), Part\u00adner, Berlin
\nLenn\u00adart Lorenz (Regu\u00adla\u00adtory), Part\u00adner, Hamburg
\nDr. Saskia Bong (Co-Lead, Funds), Asso\u00adciate Part\u00adner, Berlin
\nDr. Dajo Sanning (Tax Struc\u00adtu\u00adring), Asso\u00adciate Part\u00adner, Hamburg
\nDr. Wolf\u00adram Dickers\u00adbach (Tax Struc\u00adtu\u00adring), Senior Asso\u00adciate, Hamburg
\nFran\u00adziska W\u00fcst (Funds), Asso\u00adciate, Berlin<\/p>\n
\nDr. Frede\u00adrik G\u00e4rt\u00adner (Lead, Tran\u00adsac\u00adtions), Part\u00adner, Berlin
\nDr. Sarah Sostak (Tran\u00adsac\u00adtions), Asso\u00adciate, Berlin<\/p>\n