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With a team led by Dr. Hermann Ali Hinderer, Partner at its Stuttgart office, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek legally advised PROSE group comprehensively on the sale of its Testing division, based in Germany and Switzerland, to TÜV SÜD. The carve-out will allow PROSE group to focus on and further expand its core engineering and consulting business. With TÜV SÜD as buyer, customers will also be enjoying synergies to obtain comprehensive testing of rail vehicles from a single source
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A team led by Dr. Rainer Herschlein, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised private investors from the family shareholders of Rübezahl-Riegelein group on the acquisition of a majority stake in confectionery manufacturer Eichetti. Both parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. Eichetti is a confectionery manufacturer based in the Franconian town of Werneck (Schweinfurt district) that is primarily known for its ice cream confectionery specialties and fizzy drinks
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With a team led by Hamburg-based Partner Dr. Stefan Duhnkrack, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek provided legal advice to funds advised by PREMIUM Equity Partners GmbH on the acquisition of heinekingmedia GmbH. As part of a succession solution for the previous founders and MADSACK Mediengruppe, PREMIUM acquires heinekingmedia jointly with KEMPEN Private Markets Fund, Amsterdam. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price
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A team led by Dr. Oliver von Rosenberg, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek in Cologne, advised GEW Köln AG, majority shareholder of RheinEnergie AG, on the expansion of the strategic partnership between RheinEnergie AG and e.on-company Westenergie AG, formerly innogy SE. The basic principles of the cooperation had already been agreed in November of last year
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With a team led by Düsseldorf-based partner Dr. Guido Hoffmann, Heuking advised ENERVIE – Südwestfalen Energie und Wasser AG on a EUR 170 million refinancing transaction. The refinancing transaction consists of a syndicated loan led by Nord/LB, Schuldscheinen, bilateral bank loans, and government backed infrastructure loans
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With a team led by Dr. Martin Imhof, Partner at the Düsseldorf office, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised the founder and owner in the sale of Axxence Group to a private equity fund managed by capiton and the company’s management. Headquartered in Emmerich, Germany, Axxence Group is a manufacturer and supplier of natural aroma ingredients for the global flavour & fragrance ("F&F") industry
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A Heuking team led by M&A-Partner Boris Dürr legally advised private equity investor AUCTUS Capital Partners AG and the funds advised by AUCTUS on the acquisition of a majority stake in häussermann group. häussermann group, which includes the enterprises häussermann in Sulzbach, Kosche and Kovalex in Much, Maier in Reutlingen and Mirako in Austria, manufactures high-quality wood and wood-based products for interior and exterior use
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Funds advised by Trill Impact acquired majority stakes in Meona Group and i-SOLUTIONS Health GmbH including their subsidiaries with the objective of merging the two companies. A team led by Dr. Rainer Herschlein, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, and Benedikt Raisch, Salaried Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised the majority shareholder of i-SOLUTIONS, a German family office, on the sale of the shares
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A Heuking team led by Dr Erdem Şişmangil has provided legal advice to leading delivery service Getir on its market entry in Germany. The company initially launched in Berlin, with further (German and European) cities currently in the planning stage. Getir is considered a pioneer of the ultra fast delivery business model worldwide with a market value of 7.5 billion US dollars at last count. Getir was founded in Istanbul in 2015
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The team of planning and administrative lawyers led by Stuttgart-based Partner Dr. Wolfram Sandner enjoyed a recent success in court: On behalf of Stuttgarter Hofbräu, a traditional brewery and a member of Radeberger group, his team successfully challenged a development plan of the City of Stuttgart before Baden-Württemberg Administrative Court that defined a general residential area on the neighboring property of the brewery site, which is over 140 years old
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A team led by Ariane Neubauer, Partner at the Berlin office of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised Sanity Group GmbH, a Berlin-based health and life sciences company focused on cannabinoids and natural active ingredients, on its Series A financing round. The Series A financing round is led by renowned Swiss venture capitalist Redalpine along with U.S.-based venture capitalist Navy Capital, SOJE Capital, a fund that invests exclusively in cannabis companies, and GMPVC
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A team led by Düsseldorf-based lawyer Dr. Andreas Urban comprehensively advised the Grotkamp family on the acquisition of all shares in FUNKE Mediengruppe on issues relating to corporate law, antitrust law, and finance law. The Grotkamp family line – Petra Grotkamp and her children Julia Becker, Nora Marx, and Niklas Wilcke – acquired all shares from the previous co-shareholders of the Schubries and Holthoff-Pförtner family lines, thus taking over FUNKE Mediengruppe in full
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With a team led by Kristina Schneider, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek comprehensively advised PflegeButler group on its merger with Onesta group. Closing is subject to the approval of the antitrust authorities. With its workforce of just over 500, Onesta group currently offers services for 550 people in need of care at eight sites in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. Onesta’s offering includes assisted living, outpatient care, daytime nursing care, inpatient care, and intensive care
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A team led by stock corporation law and capital markets law specialist Dr. Mirko Sickinger, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Cologne office, advised SMT Scharf AG on a capital increase from authorized capital against cash contributions with a subscription offer and securities information sheet. New shares that are not subscribed by shareholders will be placed with institutional investors by way of a private placement
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Supported by a team led by Michael Schmittmann and constitutional and administrative lawyer Michael Below, Partners at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, the pro bono initiative “Händler helfen Händlern“ [“Retailers are helping retailers”] filed ten constitutional complaints with the Federal Constitutional Court against the amendment of the Infection Protection Act, referred to as the “federal emergency brake
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A team led by Michael Neises, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Frankfurt office, advised Shareholder Value Beteiligungen AG on the preparation and execution of its voluntary public share buyback offer to its shareholders. Frankfurt-based Shareholder Value Beteiligungen AG (ISIN: DE000A168205) is a company listed on the Open Market of Frankfurt Stock Exchange specializing in value investing for its own account in SMEs in German-speaking countries
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A team led by Boris Dürr and Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, both Partners at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, successfully advised mic AG on a cash capital increase. The company intends to use the gross issue proceeds of EUR 10,868,475 million to finance its acquisition of Pyramid Computer GmbH. About 48 percent of the 3,622,825 new shares issued at EUR 3 per share, were subscribed under the indirect subscription rights of shareholders
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A team led by Dr. Rainer Herschlein, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Stuttgart office, legally advised managing shareholder Felix Alber on the sale of shares in Radeberger Fleisch- und Wurstwaren Korch GmbH to WMS Wachstumsfonds Mittelstand Sachsen (Leipzig). Felix Alber will remain majority shareholder and continue to be responsible for the operational business
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An M&A team led by Düsseldorf Partner Dr. Martin Imhof of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised the Shanghai-based Excelle Med-supply Group on the acquisition of a majority stake in BioCer Entwicklungs-GmbH. The transaction was structured in two stages and has now been completed. BioCer Entwicklungs-GmbH, located in Bayreuth, Germany, is specialized in the research, development and production of innovative medical devices made of biomaterials without animal and human components
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The contract awarded to the operator of the Luca app for an electronic contact tracking system was lawful. This is the decision issued by the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Procurement Chamber last week (May 4, 2021.). Dr. Martin Schellenberg and Marc Philip Greitens, both lawyers at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek in Hamburg, represented the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the review proceedings
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A team led by Michael Below, lawyer at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, won a partial victory against corona-related restrictions before Greifswald Higher Administrative Court on behalf of textile chain Ernsting’s family. The court suspended a provision that restricted non-residents‘ access to retail stores, but also, for example, to zoos, museums, sports facilities, and libraries
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A team led by Dr. Rainer Herschlein, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, legally advised DATAGROUP SE on its investment in URANO Informationssysteme GmbH, based in Bad Kreuznach. DATAGROUP uses the majority stake to massively expand its IT services business in Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse. The parties agreed not to disclose the acquisition price. Financed entirely from the company’s own funds, the acquisition is still subject to additional closing conditions
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Globally operating Chinese group WuXi Biologics completed the acquisition of a drug substance facility from Bayer AG in Wuppertal. Closing took place in Cologne on April 30, 2021. A team led by Dirk W. Kolvenbach, Partner at the Düsseldorf office, and Michael Pauli from the Cologne office of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek legally advised the Chinese group on the acquisition
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With a team led by Boris Dürr, Partner at the Munich office, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advises KATEK SE on its IPO in the Prime Standard of Frankfurt Stock Exchange. 3,948,042 shares at a price of EUR 23.00 per share were placed in the IPO, representing an issue volume in excess of EUR 90 million. The offering comprised 3,433,080 newly issued shares from a cash capital increase and 514,962 shares from the holdings of existing shareholders under a greenshoe option
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A team led by private equity lawyer Dr. Andreas Lenz, Partner at the Cologne office, advised the shareholders of medtech company Acti-Med AG on the sale of all shares to an acquisition vehicle of private equity investor Gilde Healthcare. Acti-Med AG was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Freiensteinau
