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Heuking's Zurich office supports BitMEX, one of the world's largest crypto derivatives trading platforms, in its Swiss market entry. The trading platform was founded in 2014 and intends to conduct its brokerage business for crypto derivatives from Switzerland in the future. Cryptocurrency markets have grown substantially in 2021, outpacing growth of all other asset classes. A volume of over a trillion US dollars is traded on BitMEX every year
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A team led by Alexander Weber, Partner at Heuking’s Munich office, legally advised Döhler Ventures on the sale of its stake in Just Spices. Established in 2014, spice mix startup Just Spices most recently generated annual sales of some EUR 60 million. As part of its global expansion strategy, 85 percent of the shares held by the previous shareholders, including the stake held by Döhler Ventures, were now sold to Kraft Heinz group
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A team led by Christopher Görtz from Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Cologne office advises artec technologies AG on the issuance of a convertible bond in accordance with the new Electronic Securities Act as part of a pilot project. Granting statutory subscription rights to its shareholders, artec technologies AG intends to issue the innovative product to its shareholders presumably at the beginning of 2022
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Heuking has advised a private sector consortium led by Accenture and including Credit Suisse, Natixis, R3, SIX Digital Exchange and UBS which on December 8 announced that, together with the Banque de France, the Swiss National Bank and the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub, it has con-ducted a cross-border settlement experiment (entitled Project Jura) using two wholesale CBDCs («wCBDC») and a digital financial instrument
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Heuking has advised a private sector consortium led by Accenture and including Credit Suisse, Natixis, R3, SIX Digital Exchange and UBS which on December 8 announced that, together with the Banque de France, the Swiss National Bank and the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub, it has con-ducted a cross-border settlement experiment (entitled Project Jura) using two wholesale CBDCs («wCBDC») and a digital financial instrument
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Benedikt Raisch, Salaried Partner at Heuking’s Stuttgart office, legally advised entrepreneur Alexander Stein on the acquisition of 51% of the shares in Société des Produits d’Armagnac (SPA) from Pernod Ricard. The shares were acquired through investment company Cloudsweeper GmbH. Created in the 1930s and based in Eauze – considered the capital of Armagnac – in the Southwest of France, SPA owns Armagnac brands Marquis de Montesquiou and Comte de Lauvia
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Effective January 1, 2022, nine salaried partners of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek will be admitted to equity partnership. In addition, six senior associates will be promoted to salaried partners. Boris Dürr, new Managing Partner for Human Resources, is convinced that the firm is charting the right course
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A team led by Dr. Marc Scheunemann, Partner at Heuking, advised the Hong Kong-based beauty company Meiyume on the sale of Lornamead Germany with well-established brands such as CD and a portfolio of brands in the UK to the Italian Sodalis Group. The share purchase agreement was notarized on November 9, 2021 and the transaction was completed on November 30, 2021. Meiyume was also advised by Tiang & Partners in Hong Kong
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A team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised The Naga Group AG, provider of the NAGA.com social network for trading, cryptocurrencies, and payments, on another capital increase. With total proceeds of EUR 34 million, this has been the company’s largest equity funding round to date. Naga will use the proceeds to accelerate customer growth, expand into new regions, and recruit new employees
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A team led by Dr. Johan Schneider, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Hamburg office, legally advised Rheinmetall Technical Publications GmbH, a subsidiary of MDAX-listed Rheinmetall AG, on acquiring the business operations of EMT Ingenieurgesellschaft Dipl.-Ing. Hartmut Euer mbH, which is in insolvency
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A team led by Dr. Mathias Schröder, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Munich office, comprehensively advised the shareholders of KEYLENS GmbH on the sale of all shares to Prophet group. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price. KEYLENS GmbH is a strategy consulting firm with offices in Munich and Hamburg
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Boris Dürr and Christian Schild legally advised PRIMEPULSE SE and KATEK SE on the acquisition of stakes in iOX Mobility GmbH. PRIMEPULSE SE acquired more than 20 percent and KATEK SE acquired 10 percent in iOX Mobility GmbH as part of a capital increase. In addition to KATEK SE and PRIMEPULSE SE, KATEK CEO Rainer Koppitz and founder Christoph Ballin also participated in the funding round
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A team led by capital markets expert Dr. Mirko Sickinger, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Cologne office, advised Blu Horizon Capital Group S.A., Luxemburg, on listing its shares on the Regulated Unofficial Market of Düsseldorf Stock Exchange. Blu Horizon Capital Group S.A
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A team led by Dr. Sönke Görgens, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised HIH Invest Real Estate GmbH on the acquisition of “Deli,” a mixed-use neighborhood shopping center in Duisburg, on behalf of open-ended special AIF “Perspektive Einzelhandel: Fokus Nahversorgung.” The Heuking team legally advised HIH Invest comprehensively and conducted legal and tax due diligence. The “Deli” neighborhood shopping center is located in the Rheinhausen district at Asterlager Str
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A Heuking team led by Benedikt Raisch advised FairCap on the acquisition of two plants from BARTEC group operating in safety-related electrical engineering for underground mining and industry. The acquired sites previously formed BARTEC group’s “Mining” division. The plants in Menden (Sauerland, asset deal) and Tychy (Poland, share deal) are active in the development and production, trade, and servicing of electrical safety switchgear and in machining technology
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The Volker Hinz (1947 - 2019) photo archive comprises some 1.3 million photographs. Dr. Stefan Duhnkrack, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Hamburg office, represented and legally advised the photographer’s estate on the sale of the collection to the Bavarian State Library. The library is using this testimony to Germany’s photography to further expand its largest public picture archive in Germany
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At its Partners’ meeting held on November 13, law firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek elected a new management team. In addition to various internal committees, the management team is newly elected every three years. After almost 12 years in management, Dr. Hans Gummert, responsible for Finance, did not seek reelection. “I would like to express my special thanks to Dr. Gummert for his many years of positive collaboration in an atmosphere of mutual trust in management,” said Dr. Andreas Urban
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A team led by Dr. Rainer Herschlein and Dr. Emanuel Teichmann legally advised the shareholders of AMPAREX, market leader in software for audiologists, on the sale of all their shares to Berlin-based investment firm FLEX Capital. AMPAREX will merge with IPRO, market leader in software for opticians, into a software group for “other service providers” in the healthcare sector so that the customers of the two software companies will benefit from each other’s strengths in the future
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A team led by Dr. Bodo Dehne and Marcel Maybaum, supported by Dr. Katharina Prasuhn, provided comprehensive legal advice to the shareholders of the Evora IT Solutions Group on the sale of a majority stake to Allgeier SE and acted as lead counsel for the transaction. The purchase price is in the lower three-digit million Euro range. The sale was made out of a structured and competitive bidding process. The four founders will continue to hold a 40 percent stake in the group as entrepreneurs
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With a team led by capital markets lawyer and Partner Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Enapter AG on a capital increase. The full placement of the capital increase will generate gross proceeds of about EUR 30 million for the company. At an offer price of EUR 23 per share, 1,304,347 new shares were issued
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A team led by Dr. Pär Johansson and Dr. Philipp Jansen, both Partners at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised investment firm Odewald KMU II on its acquisition of Akademie für Kindergarten, Kita und Hort GmbH and Akademie der deutschen Wirtschaft GmbH. Akademie für Kindergarten, Kita und Hort GmbH and Akademie der deutschen Wirtschaft GmbH operate several learning academies that focus on professional development in different segments
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Effective December 1, 2021, a tax team will join the Frankfurt office of business law firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek. Coming from BAM Corporate Services GmbH, Jörg Michelsen (49) will work as Equity Partner. He is accompanied by Sebastian Eibich, lawyer and tax advisor, as Senior Associate, Rolando Casonato, business school graduate, and Olga Arndt, business school graduate, as Senior Tax Specialists, all from BAM Corporate Services GmbH
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A Heuking team led by Benedikt Raisch advised FairCap on the acquisition of two plants from BARTEC group operating in safety-related electrical engineering for underground mining and industry. The acquired sites previously formed BARTEC group’s “Mining” division. The plants in Menden (Sauerland, asset deal) and Tychy (Poland, share deal) are active in the development and production, trade, and servicing of electrical safety switchgear and in machining technology
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The Volker Hinz (1947 - 2019) photo archive comprises some 1.3 million photographs. Dr. Stefan Duhnkrack, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Hamburg office, represented and legally advised the photographer’s estate on the sale of the collection to the Bavarian State Library. The library is using this testimony to Germany’s photography to further expand its largest public picture archive in Germany
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With a team led by Dr. Oliver Böttcher and Kristina Schneider from its Cologne office, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Compleo Charging Solutions AG on the acquisition of E.ON subsidiary innogy eMobility Solutions GmbH (“ieMS”). The acquisition of ieMS, negotiated since July, will create one of the leading full-service providers for charging technology in Europe at the Dortmund site
