Profile
Henrik Armah is a shareholder and Co-Chair of the German Corporate/M&A Group. He advises international and domestic clients on M&A transactions, joint ventures and corporate transformations as well as all general matters of corporate law. He specializes in cross border transactions (buy side and sell side). Henrik’s clients include industry players as well as private equity funds, strategic investors and venture capitalists.
As a recognized and highly experienced lawyer in the technology, media & telecoms as well as the healthcare and life sciences sectors, Henrik has represented numerous private equity and strategic investors on their transactions in these industries.
Henrik has been actively representing clients on transactions since 2007. He spent parts of his legal traineeship in New York and was on secondment in London.
Concentrations
- Global transactions
- Life sciences
- Health care & Pharma
- Digitization
- New & emerging technologies
- Industrials
Capabilities
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, Chambers Global, Corporate/M&A: Mid-Market, 2024
- Listed, Chambers Europe, Corporate/M&A: Mid-Market, 2024
- Listed, The Legal 500 EMEA Guide, 2022-2024
- Corporate, 2022-2024
- M&A, 2023-2024
- Transactions, 2023-2024
- Venture Capital, 2023-2024
- M&A: Mid-Sized Deals (SUB-€500M), 2022
- Frequently recommended for M&A by JUVE since 2018
- Listed, IFLR1000, "Notable Practitioner” for M&A, 2020-2024
- Recommended for corporate law, media law, M&A law, PE law and VC law, Best Lawyers, 2019-2021
- TOP Lawyer for Corporate Law 2019, Wirtschaftswoche/Handelsblatt Research Institute
- “very calm, very knowledgeable, commercially smart lawyer‘”, The Legal 500, 2021
- “very prudent”, "provides outstanding advice and very quick responses, with a high level of competence”, Chambers and Partners, 2024
- "smart, calm, pragmatic manner, speedy; highly recommended" (client), JUVE 2023/24
- Recommended for M&A by Handelsblatt in Germany 2018/2019
- "M&A specialist", JUVE online
Credentials
- Ph.D., Universität Potsdam /Germany, 2007
- Second Legal State Exam, Berlin/Germany, 2006
- First Legal State Exam, Berlin/Germany, 2002 (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
- Germany
- English
- German