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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
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A team led by Dr. Rainer Herschlein, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised DATAGROUP SE on the acquisition of 100% of the shares in dna Gesellschaft für IT Services mbH. DATAGROUP intends to use the acquisition to complement its existing activities in the field of IT services for the financial services sector. The parties agreed not to disclose the acquisition price. Hamburg-based dna Gesellschaft für IT Services mbH specializes in services for IT infrastructures and IT applications
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A team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, successfully advised Northern Data AG on placing a capital increase with gross proceeds of EUR 60.7 million. The company intends to use the net proceeds to strengthen its balance sheet and to expand its shareholder structure. Furthermore, the proceeds will be used to accelerate the growth of existing business activities as well as for general corporate purposes
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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 Hausladen Fruchthandelsgesellschaft mbH on the sale of a majority shareholding to Westfalia Fruit International Ltd. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price. Hausladen Fruchthandelsgesellschaft mbH is an owner-operated family business in the fruit and vegetable sector with its own ripening facility
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LabCampus, a subsidiary of Flughafen München GmbH, has gained a global technology leader in autonomous driving as its first anchor tenant. Argo AI will use the facilities to develop its vehicle systems in the future. In the course of the co-operation, Flughafen München GmbH and Argo AI are jointly developing a test track covering approximately nine hectares on the airport site, including a workshop
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With a team led by Dr. Oliver Böttcher and Kristina Schneider from the Cologne office, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Compleo Charging Solutions AG on its merger with wallbe GmbH. Closing of the transaction and the merger of the operating businesses of Compleo and wallbe are expected by the end of April
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Hamburg-based lawyers Dr. Volker Voth and Christoph Prochnau of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Hanjo Runde in employment law and corporate law relating to the SieMatic’s General Manager upcoming move to HanseYachts AG as CEO. Runde, who joined SieMatic’s management team in December 2019, will fulfill his contract at SieMatic until the end of November. From December 2021, he will take up his work as CEO at HanseYachts AG in Greifswald, alongside Dr. Jens Gerhardt and Sven Göbel
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With a team led by Alexander Weber, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised brutkasten GmbH on the acquisition of the VentureCapital Magazin business unit from GoingPublic Media AG. Since 2000, the VentureCapital Magazin platform (magazine, www.vc-magazin.de, Private Equity Flash newsletter) informs investors, entrepreneurs, and intermediaries about trends, transactions, and backgrounds around private equity, entrepreneurship, and technologies
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In a landmark decision, the Federal Court of Justice removed the basis for most lawsuits filed by investors in closed-end funds. In a decision announced on March 26, 2021, the Federal Court of Justice held that founding shareholders were not liable under the general principles of culpa in contrahendo if they provided information with an incorrect, incomplete, or misleading prospectus prior to investors joining the fund
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Effective April 1, 2021, Dr. Henrik Lay (44) will join Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek as Equity Partner. The lawyer and tax advisor will reinforce the transactional, but in particular the tax law practice in Hamburg. Henrik Lay joins Heuking from AHB (Arends Hofert Bergemann) Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater. Previously, he practiced at Watson Farley & Williams after having started his career at Latham & Watkins. Admitted as a lawyer and tax advisor, he is also a Certified Specialist Lawyer in Tax Law
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With a team from several offices led by partners Dr. Johan Schneider and Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised internationally operating Joh. Friedrich Behrens AG on the sale of its business operations in an asset deal together with a share deal for numerous foreign subsidiaries. The buyer is a subsidiary of Great Star Europe AG, Switzerland, which prevailed over numerous interested investors in a highly complex international bidding process
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Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek and a team led by Alexander Weber legally advised Russmedia Equity Partners on the acquisition of a stake in white label dating provider ICONY GmbH. ICONY GmbH operates the ICONY network, which gives companies the opportunity to offer dating or matchmaking services under their own brand and/or domain. Numerous media companies and domains are using this network. ICONY was formed from the metropolis.de and flirt.de community platforms. The ICONY network has over 2
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Thalia has acquired Lehmanns Media GmbH group from Lafayette Mittelstand Capital. Lehmanns Media, which is particularly operating in the B2B sector, is one of the largest and leading specialist information retailers with a broad range of specialized services for modern media procurement. Specialist information retailing and the B2B sector are gaining ever more strategic importance for Thalia
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A Heuking team led by Markus Lennartz and Klaus Weinand-Härer advised InfraRed Capital Partners on legal and tax matters relating to a majority investment in Deutsche GigaNetz GmbH. InfraRed’s partnership with Deutsche GigaNetz GmbH creates the opportunity to build the next generation of high-quality fiber infrastructure in Germany
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A team led by Dr. Jörg Schewe, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised EasyPark Group on the proposed acquisition of PARK NOW Group, a joint venture of BMW Group and Daimler Mobility AG, and managed the transaction globally on the buyer side. The proposed acquisition of PARK NOW Group enables EasyPark Group to take the next strategic step in becoming a global digital pace-setter in mobility services, and enable them to reach more cities, operators and users
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A team led by Michael Neises, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Frankfurt office, advised Shareholder Value Beteiligungen AG and the foundation Share Value Stiftung on the mandatory takeover offer and the delisting offer to SMT Scharf AG’s shareholders. Frankfurt-based Shareholder Value Beteiligungen AG (ISIN: DE000A168205) is a company listed on Frankfurt Stock Exchange’s Open Market that specializes in value investing for its own account in SMEs in German-speaking countries
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A team led by Stuttgart-based partner Dr. Peter Ladwig comprehensively advised the shareholders of OMIKRON Data Quality GmbH (in the market also known as “FACT-Finder”) on the sale of all of their shares to investment company GENUI and supported the client during the transaction
