Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek Advises BE Beteiligungen Fonds on Investment in iic Group

May, 2017 - Germany

Corporate law experts Dr. Mirko Sickinger, partner at the Cologne office of business law firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, and Tobias Nagel advised BE Beteiligungen Fonds GmbH & Co. geschlossene Investmentkommanditgesellschaft on an investment in iic group GmbH. The investment was made by direct participation via the acquisition of shares as part of a capital increase of iic group GmbH and mezzanine financing by granting a shareholder loan. The advice focused mainly on drafting the necessary investment documentation and other related documents, as well as holding the contractual negotiations.

Cologne-based BE Beteiligungen Fonds GmbH & Co. geschlossene Investmentkommanditgesellschaft is an investment company that provides growth capital to medium-sized companies in the form of mezzanine capital and/or direct equity holdings. The European Investment Fund (EIF) and BE Beteiligungen GmbH & Co. KG are participating as investors. Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek had already advised the initiators Rolf Brodbeck and Roland Eschmann on structuring and establishing the fund company and their feeder fund BE Beteiligungen GmbH & Co. KG and on previous investments.

Counsel to BE Beteiligungen Fonds GmbH & Co. geschlossene
Investmentkommanditgesellschaft
Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek:
Dr. Mirko Sickinger, LL.M. (Lead),
Tobias Nagel (both Corporate), both Cologne

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