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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
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A team led by Dr. Hermann Ali Hinderer, Heuking Partner at the Stuttgart office, advised TRUMPF Venture II GmbH (“TRUMPF Venture”) legally and on matters of tax law in relation to closing a EUR 13 million Series D funding round of Munich-based medtech company iThera Medical GmbH (“iThera Medical”). In addition to TRUMPF Venture, existing investors such as Bayern Kapital participated again with funds from the Bavarian Growth Fund
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A team led by Frankfurt-based Heuking partners Klaus Weinand-Härer and Dr. Till Naruisch comprehensively advised Luxembourg-based global infrastructure investment company BBGI Global Infrastructure S.A. on the acquisition of a 49% equity interest in A7 project company Via Solutions Nord GmbH & Co KG from HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions GmbH. BBGI Global Infrastructure prevailed in a bidding procedure
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Effective January 15, 2023, Dr. Dr. Johannes Blassl will join Heuking’s Frankfurt office as Equity Partner. The crypto and compliance specialist joins the firm from Ernst & Young Law where he practiced as Senior Manager, Financial Services in banking and capital markets law. Johannes Blassl (37) advises banks and companies on capital markets law and regulatory issues while also focusing on the use of blockchain technology in the financial markets
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A Heuking team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Partner at the Cologne office, and Dr. Bodo Dehne, Partner at the Düsseldorf office, legally advised publicly listed Vectron Systems AG on the acquisition of acardo group. acardo group is one of the leading providers of consumer activation in Germany. Based in Dortmund, the company is considered a pioneer in coupon marketing and implements several thousand promotions per year
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A team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Heuking Partner at the Cologne office, legally advised Bitcoin Group SE on the acquisition of financial services provider Bankhaus von der Heydt. Closing of the transaction is subject to review and approval by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). Bitcoin Group SE is a holding company with a focus on innovative and disruptive business models and technologies in the fields of cryptocurrency and blockchain
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A team led by Heuking Partner Dr. Stefan Duhnkrack legally advised the owner of Witte Pumps & Technology GmbH in Tornesch near Hamburg on the sale of the well-established company to Maag Pump Systems AG, Oberglatt near Zurich. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price. Witte manufactures gear pumps in Germany and provides aftermarket parts and services to the chemical, plastics and polymer industries, the food and beverage sector, and the pharmaceutical industry
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A team led by Heuking Partner Dr. Peter Zimmermann advised Swiss Life Asset Managers on divesting an office complex, selling it to a fund managed by AEW. The buildings were sold as part of an asset deal for SL AM Aurum GmbH & Co. KG. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price. The two-part building at Clever Straße 36 and adjacent Mevissenstraße 3 had been completely revitalized earlier this year, preserving the listed facade and staircase
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Corporate and capital markets law experts Dr. Mirko Sickinger, LL.M., Partner, and Lena Pfeufer, Salaried Partner, advised the Supervisory Board of va-Q-tec AG on concluding a Business Combination Agreement between va-Q-tec AG and EQT Private Equity
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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 on refinancing the majority shareholding in Xortec GmbH by funds advised by Beyond Capital Partners GmbH and by the former owners. The refinancing of existing corporate transactions under the umbrella of Xortec GmbH enabled the investors to release contributed equity and to optimize the financing structure with a balanced financing mix
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Dr. Anton Horn and Dr. Sabine Dethof, lawyers at Heuking’s Düsseldorf office, successfully represented Egger Holzwerkstoffe Brilon GmbH & Co. KG in a patent dispute. In collaboration with patent attorneys from the law firm of Cohausz & Florack, they now also successfully concluded nullity proceedings before the Federal Court of Justice. EGGER had filed an action for nullity requesting that a patent held by Rehau Automotive SE & Co
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Dr. Detlef Raasch will join Heuking as Salaried Partner effective January 1, 2023, reinforcing the Patent Law team led by Dr. Anton Horn in Düsseldorf. The addition of the new team member is another sign of the consistently pursued expansion of the Patent Law practice. Dr. Raasch is a Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney and comes from the law firm of FARAGO Patentanwälte (Munich / Aachen)
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A team led by Dr. Johan-Michel Menke, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Hamburg office, advised lawyer Olaf Spiekermann as insolvency administrator of WHG Rahn GmbH on the sale of the company’s business operations to Saarbrücken-based Klima Becker Gruppe GmbH, a member of Peter Gross Bau Holding GmbH
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A Private Equity team of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised European Directories Group, a portfolio company of Triton Partners, and its management led by CEO Daniel Hagemeier on the sale of dogado group to investors Cinven and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (OTPP). As a specialist for cloud-based hosting and digital marketing, dogado group is a leader in the hosting market in the German-speaking region of Europe
