Below you will find selected transactions on which our M&A team has advised:

  • Madsack group on the acquisition of DDV Mediengruppe from Bertelsmann and ddvg
  • Founder and sole shareholder Jan Kolthoff on sale of all shares in Move UP Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsmanagement mbH to Dutch Acture Group
  • ZERTUS GmbH on acquisition of all shares on Kaiserstuhl Holding GmbH and indirectly Süße-Werbe-Ideen GmbH & Co. KG
  • Earlybird and UVC on PIPE investment Lilium
  • Madsack group on the acquisition of a majority interest in publishing group Kieler Nachrichten
  • Management of FFG FINANZCHECK Finanzportale GmbH in connection with sale of the company to smava GmbH
  • Shareholder of PMSG PersonalMarkt Services (gehalt.de) on the partial sale to, and shareholders agreement with, StepStone
  • Shareholder of Finanzcheck on tender procedure and sale to Scout24 AG
  • VIVUM Corporate Real Estate on the structuring of its investment funds, on the acquisition of numerous portfolio assets, and on various exits
  • ZERTUS GmbH on the sale of Löser Waffelfabrik to Storck group
  • Swedish Match AB (publ.) on the exit from Arnold André GmbH & Co. KG
  • Buss Global group on acquisition of container portfolio from insolvent Magellan Maritime Services GmbH
  • Norwegian investment bank Pareto Securities AS on a joint venture with Ernst Russ AG
  • Spudy Invest GmbH on a financing round for medical technology company ROWIAK
  • DSV Group on an ongoing basis on small and medium-sized transactions in Germany as well as on corporate and labor law restructurings
  • ZERTUS GmbH on the acquisition of Bio-Zentrale Naturprodukte GmbH from Lindhorst group
  • Spudy Invest GmbH on the indirect acquisition of ICR from UBS Deutschland AG
  • Max Schön GmbH, a Sanistål group company, on the divestiture of HEPA Wälzlager GmbH & Co. KG
  • Tchibo GmbH on the sale of Tchibo Energy GmbH to Lichtblick SE
  • Shareholders of Hansaton Group on termination of a joint venture with a DAX 30 corporation, on the acquisition and sale of foreign subsidiaries, on the sale of shares to Sonova AG
  • Nordsee Offshore MEG I on joint venture with Deme (labor law, restructuring)
  • Management in the tertiary buyout of Polytech-Domilens by Stirling Square Capital Partners
  • Ebro Foods GmbH on the sale of German pasta business (Birkel, 3Glocken) to Italian/Swiss Newlat Group
  • Shareholders of Hauck Aufhäuser Institutional Research AG on the sale of shares
  • RHJI on the acquisition of BHF Bank AG (employment law, pensions and restructuring)
  • Capital Stage AG on the sale of 49 % interest in solar plant company to Google
  • LGT Foundation on the sale of the German LGT Bank to ABN AMRO (labor law) and subsequent restructuring; on the acquisition of BHF Bank AG (labor law, pensions and restructuring)
  • Management on the buyout of BJC Best Job Consulting GmbH by Capiton AG
  • Shareholder of Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG on sale to Axel Springer AG
  • Management in the buyout of cadooz AG by Palamon Capital Partners
  • ZERTUS on sale of wholly owned subsidiary Theodor Kattus to Fuchs Gewürze Group 
  • Granville Baird fund on the exit of Florida based portfolio company Apptimum to Microsoft
  • Sulo, a portfolio company of private equity investors Apax and Blackstone, on the acquisition of Cleanaway from Australian conglomerate Brambles
  • Apollo Management fund on the merger of cable TV operators Unity Media and Iesy with Telecolumbus (held by BC Partners)
  • ZERTUS GmbH on the acquisition of Dextro Energy from Unilever
  • Gruner + Jahr on the acquisitions of several companies, e.g., chefkoch.de.
  • Management on the buyout of Miles International by MPC and Hannover Finanz
  • ZERTUS GmbH on the acquisition of Pulmoll from Royal Numico
  • G+J Multimedia Ventures GmbH on the acquisition of handy.de
  • Management on the secondary buyout of Phoenix Xtra Print GmbH by BPE
  • Liberty Media on an attempted acquisition of TV cable operator Telecolumbus group