Till Olbrich

Till Olbrich is a German-qualified lawyer whose primary career has been in corporate law and litigation rather than professional investing. He studied law in Germany and Switzerland, holds a degree associated with the University of Leipzig, and completed his legal training at the Nürnberg Higher Regional Court (1997–1999) and, briefly, a firm in Tel Aviv. He passed both German state law exams (1997 and 1999) with results ranked in the top 1% and was admitted to the German bar in 1999. Early in his career he was an associate at Hengeler Mueller in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt (1999–2002) and, in 2001, served as CEO of Spider M AG in Nuremberg.

From 2003 to 2004 he worked in New York as a Foreign Associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. In 2005 he joined Philip Morris International (PMI), where he spent roughly 14 years across Lausanne and New York. At PMI he held a series of senior roles — including Vice President of Regulatory Policy & Strategy, Regional General Counsel for Latin America & Canada, and ultimately Deputy General Counsel — leading a global team of about 240 lawyers and legal professionals and covering areas such as brand protection, product regulation, litigation, public policy, sustainability, and commercial law. His widely circulated PMI-era contact details (a pmi.com email and a New York +1 917 phone number) date from this period.

In 2020 Olbrich co-founded the litigation and arbitration boutique Massari Olbrich (branded "MO Litigation") with Dr. Philipp Massari, with offices in Munich and Zug, Switzerland. There he handles high-profile litigation and arbitration and advises internationally operating companies on strategic regulatory matters "at the intersection of science, politics, and law." He is registered on the public attorney list of the Canton of Zug and is also active as a conference speaker and a Project Syndicate contributor. He is fluent in English, German, and French.

It is worth noting that Olbrich's public footprint is overwhelmingly legal. The "angel investor / seed" designation in the source data corresponds to an individual investor profile listed on PitchBook, but no specific portfolio companies, check sizes, or deal terms are publicly disclosed — so the investing details below should be treated as thinly documented.

• Classified in investor databases (PitchBook) as an individual angel investor operating at the seed stage; no publicly stated thesis, sector mandate, or check-size range could be verified.
• Given his professional background, any founder-facing value-add most plausibly centers on his domain expertise: international litigation and arbitration, regulatory strategy, tobacco/consumer-goods and heavily regulated industries, brand protection, product regulation, and public policy.
• Likely geographies mirror where he has lived and practiced: Germany and Switzerland (DACH) and the United States.
• No self-authored investment thesis or "what makes me say yes" statement was found in public sources.