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A team led by Dr. Hermann Ali Hinderer, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek in Stuttgart, legally advised IPCOM group on the acquisition of 100 percent of the shares in Seidemann group. With the acquisition, IPCOM strengthens its existing position in the technical insulation sector and its presence in the German B2B market. Seidemann group’s former shareholder Jörg Seidemann will remain with the company as General Manager
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Effective March 1, 2020, Sandra Pfister (48) will join Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Hamburg office as Equity Partner. The financing specialist joins the firm from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, where she had been a Partner since 2016. Prior to that, she practiced at Kaye Scholer (now Arnold & Porter), Simmons & Simmons, and Shearman & Sterling
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A team led by Dr. Mirko Sickinger, LL.M., Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised FAKT AG on concluding a structured real estate financing project. The loan will be used by subsidiaries of FAKT AG to refinance the acquisition of commercial properties in the “Marler Stern” shopping center in Marl. The advice included drafting and negotiating the loan agreement and the collateral agreements. Frankfurt am Main-based ICF Bank AG acted as intermediary for the investors
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Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Cologne-based capital market team led by Partner Dr. Thorsten Kuthe advised Accentro Real Estate AG on issuing a bond with a volume of EUR 250 million. The new bond is an unsubordinated and unsecured Euro-denominated sub-benchmark bond. In advance, Accentro Real Estate AG made a cash offer to the holders of the EUR 100 million 2018/2021 bond to repurchase its outstanding principal amount
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A team led by Dr. Stefan Duhnkrack, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek in Hamburg, advised Bad Vilbel WV Energie AG, on the sale of PSG Group, Lohmar, with its German and Swiss subsidiaries. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price. PSG is the pioneer and market leader in the outsourcing of procurement services via online platforms and tools within the German-speaking market
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ILG acquired a neighborhood shopping center in Straubing on behalf of an institutional fund from SRILA Projekt GmbH with main shareholders VR-Bank Rottal-Inn eG and RMI Immobilien. A team led by Klaus Weinand-Härer and Dr. Frank Baßler, both Partners at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised ILG group on the acquisition. The parties agreed not to disclose the sales price
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With a team led by Dr. Sönke Görgens, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate (Warburg-HIH Invest) on the sale of a residential and commercial building in Hamburg-Billstedt to NM Nord-Immo Management, an affiliate of Hamburger Sparkasse. The sale was structured as an asset deal. The property comprises more than 7,250 square meters of commercial space and twelve apartments
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A team led by Dr. Katharina Prasuhn from the Hamburg office advised energy company RDG GmbH & Co. KG (RDG) on the acquisition of oil production operations from Wintershall Dea GmbH by way of an asset deal. The purchase agreement was notarized on December 30, 2019. Closing is expected in the first half of 2020. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals
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A team led by Dr. Hermann Ali Hinderer advised high-tech company TRUMPF Hüttinger, a member of Ditzingen-based TRUMPF Group, on the acquisition of HBH Microwave GmbH. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. TRUMPF Hüttinger will thus expand its technology portfolio with semiconductor-based solid-state microwave generators. The generators are used in industrial applications such as plasma generation, industrial heating, communication, or radar technologies
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A team led by Dr. Rainer Herschlein, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised DATAGROUP SE on the acquisition of 68 percent of the shares in Diebold Nixdorf Portavis GmbH from Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated. With the acquisition, DATAGROUP expands its existing business with high-quality cloud services and IT operating services in the financial sector. DATAGROUP also aspires to use the merger to achieve faster growth. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price
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A team led by Prof. Dr. Georg Streit advised HANS IM GLÜCK Franchise GmbH on the sale of burger chain Hans im Glück. Former majority shareholder AML Invest Treuhandgesellschaft mbH sold and transferred its stake in HANS IM GLÜCK Franchise GmbH to an investor group. The group includes GAB Grundstücks-, Finanzierungs-, Verwaltungs- und Beteiligungs GmbH, an existing minority shareholder, and the founders of bakery chain Backwerk, Dr. Dirk Schneider and Dr. Hans-Christian Limmer
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A team led by Dirk W. Kolvenbach advised the globally active company WuXi Biologics on the acquisition of a sterile filling and freeze-drying plant from Bayer AG. The plant is designed for the filling and freeze-drying of the blood-coagulation medication Kovaltry®. The plant will be operated on the premises of the Chempark in Leverkusen. For this purpose, a long-term sublease agreement for the use of the building was concluded
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A team led by Dr. Armin Frhr. von Grießenbeck, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek in Munich, advised Flughafengesellschaft München mbH and its wholly-owned subsidiary LABCAMPUS in a new hotel project on the Munich airport grounds. A “long-stay boarding house,” an apartment hotel with 230 units, is to be built in the “AirSite West” area. The management contract was signed two days ago, on December 17, 2019
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A team led by Munich-based Partner Prof. Dr. Georg Streit advised ATP Auto-Teile-Pöllath Handels GmbH, a leading European supplier in the automotive parts aftermarket, on the merger with Swiss Automotive Group (SAG). The transaction is subject to approval by the antitrust authorities. Closing is expected in spring 2020. Under the leadership of SAG, the two companies will combine their strengths in purchasing and e-commerce. ATP‘s market development will remain unchanged
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Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek supported financial investor LEO II. Fonds, which was advised by DUBAG Group, on the acquisition of Gesellschaft für Reisevertriebssysteme GmbH (GfR), Bochum, from the portfolio of insolvent Thomas Cook Group. At its Bochum headquarters and Berlin offices, GfR, previously a wholly owned subsidiary of insolvent Thomas Cook Touristik GmbH, provides numerous renowned tourism portals with services covering all aspects of professional travel customer management
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With a team led by Dr. Rainer Herschlein and Dr. Frank Baßler, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised AHG Autohandelsgesellschaft mbH on the acquisition of Entenmann Group with four car dealerships in the Stuttgart area. Entenmann Group sells the BMW and Mini brands including sub-brands BMW i and BMW M in Esslingen, Göppingen, Kirchheim/Teck, and Ostfildern. Last year, the group generated sales of about EUR 120 million with 180 employees, all of whom are to be taken over
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A team led by Dr. Johan Schneider, Managing Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised the insolvency administrator of Bertels Textilhandels GmbH, Hamburg-based lawyer Dr. Hagen von Diepenbroick of the law firm of Münzel & Böhm, on the sale of the assets and shares in non-insolvent Berra Handelsgesellschaft mbH to WIND GmbH, a member of Sendler group. The contract has already been notarized, with the transfer to take effect on January 1, 2020
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A team led by capital market law expert Dr. Mirko Sickinger advised Hevella Capital GmbH & Co. KGaA on a public takeover offer to the shareholders of NeXR Technologies SE (formerly Staramba SE). The advice included in particular the drafting of the bidding documents and the associated notifications and documents under securities law and takeover law as well as the support at the approval procedure at the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin)
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A team composed of members from several offices, led by Dr. Michael Dröge, Fabian G. Gaffron, Dr. Jörg Schewe, and Christoph Prochnau, comprehensively advised Aquila Holding GmbH (Aquila Capital), an independent, globally operating alternative investment manager, on its strategic partnership with Daiwa Energy & Infrastructure Co. Ltd. (DEI), Japan. As part of the transaction, DEI will acquire a 40% minority stake in Aquila Capital. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price
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Effective January 1, 2020, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s eleven Salaried Partners will be admitted to Equity Partnership and seven lawyers will be appointed Salaried Partners. “We are going into next year with no less than eleven new equity partners from within the firm. The new peers will contribute to our continued success, just like they have done as Salaried Partners in the past,” said Dr. Pär Johansson, Managing Partner for Human Resources
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With a team led by Partner Dr. Rainer Herschlein, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek comprehensively advised Kälte Eckert GmbH, a portfolio company of VR Equitypartner, on the acquisition of a majority stake in Günther Kältetechnik GmbH as part of an add-on transaction. The stake was sold by Jörg Günther, sole shareholder and General Manager. He will remain on board even after the transaction has been closed. The company name will also remain unchanged. The takeover is part of the growth strategy
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Project developer and operator i Live Group, in partnership with Mainzer Aufbaugesellschaft (MAG), sold a micro-apartment complex to be newly built in Darmstadt to Commerz Real Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaft. A team led by Dr. Frank Baßler advised i Live Group on the transaction. In an asset deal in the form of forward funding, Commerz Real initially acquires the property with an obligation to build. A joint venture between i Live and MAG will then construct the turnkey property
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Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek adds a Salaried Partner in White Collar & Criminal Compliance at its Hamburg office. After two and a half years of practicing at criminal law boutique Langrock Voß & Soyka, Dr. Sabine Ottow (39) returns to Heuking. Ottow has been a Salaried Partner at Langrock Voß & Soyka since 2017 where she defended clients in several white collar and criminal compliance cases and advised on complex compliance matters
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Expedeon AG (Heidelberg, Germany) signed an agreement with Abcam plc (Cambridge, UK) to sell its immunology and proteomics businesses for EUR 120 million. The sale is subject to shareholder approval at an extraordinary general meeting on December 19, 2019. A team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised Expedeon on the sale relating to aspects of German law including an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting. All shares in the subsidiary Expedeon Holdings Ltd
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With a team led by Dr. Jörg aus der Fünten, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised the shareholders of vtours on the sale to Hotelplan Group. vtours GmbH in Aschaffenburg and vtours international AG in Switzerland will continue to operate independently. The parties agreed not to disclose the acquisition price. The transaction closed on November 12, 2019
