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A team led by Dr. Alexander Schott legally advised the shareholders of SanTec GmbH & Co. KG and SanTec Instandsetzung GmbH & Co. KG comprehensively on the sale of all shares to ARTUS Bautrocknung- und Sanierungsgruppe and assisted with the transaction. Sebastian Meyer, founder and previous sole general manager, will remain a partner in the company by retaining a continuing interest and will continue to work as general manager of SanTec group
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A team led by Salaried Partner Christoph Prochnau from Heuking’s Hamburg office advised startup HYLI on its pre-seed funding round. The Hamburg-based startup attracted well-known business angels from the Sales, HR, and Legal sectors. Talks with additional potential investors are set to be concluded in the next few months. HYLI GmbH is an interactive platform for retirement planning, advance directives, and a self-determined end of life
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Mark Rossbroich (32) will join Heuking’s Cologne office as Salaried Partner and reinforce the Corporate and Private Equity practice effective June 12, 2023. Mark Rossbroich is dual-qualified as a lawyer in Germany and as Solicitor (England & Wales). He comprehensively advises financial and strategic investors and businesses in national and cross-border (private & public) M&A/PE transactions as well as startups and their investors through all growth phases (VC)
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A team led by Ariane Neubauer, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Berlin office, advised female health startup DR. VIVIEN KARL on its pre-seed financing round. DR. VIVIEN KARL attracted Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures as lead investor. In addition, the company gained the support of Tina Müller, former CEO of Douglas, who will now also become a member of DR
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A team led by Salaried Partner Christoph Prochnau from Heuking’s Hamburg office again advised HelloBetter on the expansion of its Series A funding round. MassMutual Ventures (MMV), HealthCap, Sparrow Ventures, Hevella Capital, and Expon Capital invested another EUR 7 million in the Hamburg-based startup. With this expansion, the volume of the Series A funding round – despite the challenging market environment for venture capital financing – has now increased to a total of EUR 20 million
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A team led by Dr. Frank Metz, Partner at Heuking’s Munich office, advised Greater Munich Real Estate Fund (GMREF) on the acquisition of a commercial property from Herecon Projekt GmbH. Greater Munich Real Estate Fund (GMREF), an open-ended real estate special fund launched by its investment manager ehret+klein Capital Markets GmbH, acquired a commercial property in an attractive location in Germering near Munich from HERECON Projekt GmbH
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With a Frankfurt-based team led by Partner Thomas K. Schrell, business law firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Volksbank eG – Die Gestalterbank and Sparkasse Rhein-Nahe on funding the continued development of a service group for building technology by RENNER (formerly VIVENTEC). Existing acquisition financing was significantly increased and supplemented by an additional anchor lender, Sparkasse Rhein-Nahe, which acts as agent and collateral trustee
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Cologne-based Heuking partners Ulf Christiani and Susanne Christine Monsig advised the City of Euskirchen on matters of public procurement law in the Europe-wide public procurement procedure for the construction of its new City Hall. The public procurement law experts assisted the city in designing the negotiated procedure and drafting the general contractor agreement and supported it throughout the procedure until the contract award
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With a Frankfurt-based team led by Partner Thomas K. W. Schrell, business law firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised CLARUS Films on debt refinancing. The comprehensive refinancing replaces existing credit facilities with a financing solution from strong regional banking partners providing both flexibility and resources for continued growth at lower cost
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A team of law firms, led by Munich-based Heuking Partner Boris Dürr, advised CANCOM SE on the acquisition of K-Businesscom-Group and all its subsidiaries. The merger will create one of the leading IT corporations in the DACH region. In the future, customers of both enterprises will benefit from the combined expertise for IT and digitalization solutions
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A team led by Munich-based M&A Partner Boris Dürr advised Schön Klinik SE comprehensively on all legal aspects of the acquisition of the imland hospital group. For Schön Klinik Group, this is the largest acquisition in the company's more than 35-year history. The acquired imland Kliniken treat around 90,000 patients per year with approximately 2,300 employees and 800 planned beds and most recently generated sales of around 200 million euros
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On April 5, 2023, the Federal Association of Crypto Securities Registrars (Bundesverband der Kryptowertpapierregisterführer e.V.) was founded. Christopher Görtz, attorney for capital markets law at Heuking in Cologne, was elected Chairman of the Board of the association. Mr. Daniel Wernicke, Co-CEO of NYALA Digital Asset AG and managing Director of the founding member Smart Registry GmbH was elected as Deputy Chairman of the Board and Mr
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Cologne-based Heuking capital markets experts Dr. Mirko Sickinger, LL.M. and Sven Radke, LL.M. adised Vidac Pharma Holding PLC on its listing on Hamburg Stock Exchange’s High Risk Market segment. Established in 2021, London-based Vidac Pharma Holding PLC is the holding company of Vidac Pharma LTD, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Israel
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SITA, the world's leading specialist in air transport communications and information technology, participated as new investor in Volocopter’s Series E Financing Round and becomes Volocopter’s preferred digital and IT systems partner for Vertiports. A team lead by Dusseldorf based Heuking Partner Dr. Martin Imhof legally advised SITA on its successful investment and the conclusion of a strategic partnership agreement with Volocopter. Volocopter is a pioneer in urban air mobility (UAM)
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M&A specialists Dr. Andreas Lenz (Cologne) and Dr. Rainer Herschlein (Stuttgart) headed a team that advised the shareholders of folding carton producer Buchmann Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (Buchmann) on selling the company to WEIG group. As an owner-managed firm for about 120 years, Buchmann develops and produces folding cartons with over 330 employees at its Annweiler plant. In 2022, Buchmann generated sales of around EUR 190 million
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A team led by Heuking Partner Dr. Jörg aus der Fünten advised international financial investor CoBe Capital on legal and tax matters in relation to the acquisition of L’Oréal Deutschland GmbH’s natural cosmetics business, including the acquisition of LOGOCOS Naturkosmetik GmbH & Co. KG. Closing of the transaction has already occurred
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Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek has filled the position of Sustainability Manager with Zoe Abulzahab. The business graduate studied in Groningen and Seoul and completed her MSc in “Global Business & Sustainability” at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. The MSc is a world-leading degree program in CSR dealing with the complex sustainability challenges faced by businesses in an integrated manner
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DMB Dr. Dieter Murmann Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (DMB), Kiel, entered into an agreement with Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Waltham / Massachusetts (USA) to acquire all shares in Kiel- based Raytheon Anschütz GmbH (in the future: Anschütz GmbH), including its foreign subsidiaries and branches in Panama, Brazil, Singapore, and China, as well as Raytheon Deutschland GmbH’s UK business
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Led by Frankfurt-based Partner Dr. Dr. Johannes Blassl, Heuking advised Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe Privatbank AG on the first crypto securities issue by Siemens AG. Partner Dr. Anne de Boer, Partners Dr. Thorsten Kuthe and Dr. Christoph Gringel, and Associates Linda Karl, Michèle von Lewinski, and Lena Wagner also advised on various aspects of the transaction
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A team led by Dr. Frank Baßler, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Stuttgart office, advised ESSINGER WOHNBAU GmbH on the sale of a service center to Klinikum Heidenheim gGmbH as part of a forward funding deal. The building complex’s entrance area and first upper floor will house the clinic’s new dialysis area while apartments for clinic employees will be built on the other three floors with completion scheduled for Q1/2024. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price
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A team led by Dr. Bodo Dehne, Partner at the Düsseldorf office, advised Dutch private equity investor Rhein Invest on the sale of its portfolio company CVS Engineering to the listed Swedish industry group Atlas Copco. CVS Engineering is a European market leader in the field of mobile vacuum pumps and compressors, which has in recent years firmly established itself as the dominant player in the German market
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A team composed of lawyers from several offices, led by Stuttgart-based Partner Dr. Peter Ladwig, comprehensively advised the shareholders of Supremo Shoes & Boots GmbH, including its managing shareholder Walter J. Weichhart, on the sale of 51% of their shares to Fasbra SE, a subsidiary of Deichmann SE, and accompanied the transaction. Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s advice included accompanying the due diligence process as well as drafting and negotiating all agreements as part of the transaction
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Conductor LLC, the leading platform in the field of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for companies, has, legally advised by a team of Heuking partner Dr. Marc Scheunemann, acquired the European-based competitor Searchmetrics GmbH with all subsidiaries in Europe and the USA. The sellers were among others Holtzbrinck Digital GmbH and the founder Marcus Tober
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A team led by Michael Kuska and Marcel Maybaum, both lawyers at Heuking’s Düsseldorf office, advised logistics company HAVI on its negotiations about the introduction of Infor’s cloud-based warehouse management system (“Infor WMS”). HAVI intends to implement Infor WMS in more than 50 distribution centers in Europe and Japan by the end of 2026
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With a Frankfurt-based team led by partner Thomas K. Schrell, business law firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek legally advised NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank - Girozentrale - on funding the acquisition of Clean-tek group. Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek comprehensively supported NORD/LB in drafting, structuring, documenting, negotiating, and implementing the entire financing documentation
