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Stuttgart-based Partner Dr. Hermann Ali Hinderer advised Photonics Systems Holding GmbH with a team on the acquisition of EPP Electronic Production Partners GmbH. The acquisition strengthens Photonics Systems Group’s activities in the electronics sector and creates the conditions for continued growth. The closing of the transaction is scheduled for the end of November 2019. A supplier in the electronics sector, EPP is headquartered in Gräfelfing
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A team led by Dr. Peter Vocke, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised LEG on the sale of a portfolio of 272 apartments and a commercial unit in the cities of Wuppertal, Bielefeld, Gelsenkirchen, and Lünen. The total rental space is 19,800 square meters. The buyer is Coreo. The residential portfolio is almost fully rented out. The deal is Coreo’s first apartment acquisition in North Rhine-Westphalia
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Duisburger Hafen AG, together with its international partners COSCO SHIPPING Group, Hupac SA and HTS Group, is developing the largest container terminal in the European hinterland on the site of the Port of Duisburg, thereby expanding the port into the central European anchor point of the New Silk Road. A team of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek led by the Düsseldorf-based partner Dr
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A team led by Cologne-based Partner Dr. Thorsten Kuthe advised SeniVita Social Estate AG on issuing two new SME bonds totaling up to EUR 30 million. SeniVita intends to use the proceeds from the issue to refinance the 6.5 percent 2015/20 convertible bond of EUR 45 million due in May 2020 and to finance its current business activities. SeniVita expects to issue a 2019/23 four-year bond of up to EUR 20 million with an annual interest rate of 7 percent
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With a team led by Dr. Oliver Böttcher from the Cologne office, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised management on the acquisition of NOBILIS Group GmbH, one of Germany’s most renowned companies for high-quality fragrance and perfume brands
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A team led by Dr. Hermann Ali Hinderer advised HMP, a leading provider of healthcare events and education, on the acquisition of Provascular GmbH. The company announced the establishment of HMP Europe to better leverage growth opportunities on the European market. The agreement with Provascular includes a strategic alliance with the conference organizer, CongO GmbH
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The team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe and Madeleine Zipperle from Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Cologne office accompanied mwb fairtrade Wertpapierhandelsbank AG on issuing Euroboden GmbH’s “Euroboden III Bond.” The placement of EUR 40 million was terminated prematurely due to oversubscription after three days. At a term of five years, the bond carries a 5.5 percent coupon, due semi-annually. About one third of the demand emanated from Frankfurt Stock Exchange’s DirectPlace
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With a team led by Dr. Oliver Böttcher from its Cologne office, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Fontus Invest GmbH and part of its management on the acquisition of an equity interest in EBG compleo GmbH. EBG compleo GmbH is a leading provider of charging stations for electric vehicles. Since developing and selling the first charging station under the EBG compleo name ten years ago, the company has experienced rapid growth
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Effective January 1, 2020, Dr. Oliver von Rosenberg, LL.M. (54) and Dr. Alexander Jüngst (37) will join Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Cologne office as Equity Partners. Moving from Görg to Heuking, they will be accompanied by Associates Dr. Kerstin Goeck and Maximilian Spitzhorn-Storck. Renowned M&A partner von Rosenberg has many years of experience in advising on German and cross-border M&A transactions. His clients include large private equity funds and corporations in the energy sector
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Internationally operating Bader group, with some 1,000 employees throughout Europe, is preparing for the future and will undertake restructuring steps by the end of the year. As part of the restructuring, affiliated company Bader GmbH at its Senden site closes in particular the “machine cladding” partial production area. Dr. Lothar Ende and Dr. Johan-Michel Menke are the lead advisors on this restructuring
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A team led by Dr. Anne de Boer and Dr. Peter Ladwig of the law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek comprehensively advised Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG (Winnenden) on the acquisition of Max Holder group (Reutlingen). Holder is known in the industry for its high level of competence in developing and manufacturing multifunctional municipal vehicles. Holder has some 250 employees and operates sites in Canada, the USA, Croatia, and Italy
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A team led by Dr. Peter Vocke, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Düsseldorf office, successfully advised Wirtgen Invest in an off-market deal in its acquisition of the office building at Taunusanlage 8 (“T8”) from a real estate fund of the South Korean financial service provider Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. The parties agreed on confidentiality about the purchase price
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A team led by corporate and capital market law expert Dr. Mirko Sickinger advised 11880 Solutions AG on a capital increase from authorized capital with exclusion of subscription rights. 1,911,109 new shares were issued at an issue price of EUR 1.83 per share, which were fully subscribed and acquired by major shareholder united vertical media GmbH
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With the support of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Silberlake Real Estate Group acquired several residential buildings in the Ruhr area. A team led by Dr. Peter Vocke advised the Düsseldorf-based project and portfolio developer on the transaction. The properties, built in the 1970s, are located in Gelsenkirchen and Mülheim/Ruhr. Some 300 apartments comprise a total rental area of about 20,000 square meters. In addition, the properties offer 200 parking spaces overall
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A team led by Dr. Peter Vocke, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised investment and real estate service provider Domicil Real Estate Group on the sale of a residential property in the Hamburg district of Neuallermöhe as part of an asset deal. Real estate multi-family office PAMERA is the buyer. The 62 residential units of the property comprise a rental area of 4,564 square meters, the property also includes 22 underground parking spaces
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A team led by Dr. Erdem Şişmangil has advised the restaurant chain BIGCHEFS on its market entry in Germany. The comprehensive advice included corporate law, leases, construction law, IT and data pro-tection law as well as media law, employment law, tax law, and public law. On September 5, 2019, the first German branch of BIGCHEFS was opened in the new food court of the Frankfurt shopping center MyZeil (Foodtopia). BIGCHEFS was founded in the Turkish capital Ankara in 2007
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In a project partnership with property developer and real estate investor nowinta Bau GmbH, project developer and operator i Live Group sold the “Campus Village II” serviced apartment project to HanseMerkur Grundvermögen AG. Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised i Live Group on the transaction with a team led by Dr. Frank Baßler. The joint venture used crowdfunding on the Zinsland platform to finance the transaction
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A team led by Dr. Rainer Herschlein advised DATAGROUP on the acquisition of parts of IT-Informatik GmbH from insolvency. DATAGROUP takes over all shares in Mercoline GmbH and in IT Digitalizacion 4.0 Industrial Internacional S.L., as well as employees and assets of IT-Informatik GmbH. IT-Informatik GmbH was founded in 1987 in Ulm and is a specialist for SAP consulting and maintenance, cloud infrastructure, and software development
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A team led by Dr. Stefan Duhnkrack, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised DMB Dr. Dieter Murmann Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, Kiel, on the acquisition of Bavarian-based Messring Group. With the August 16 purchase agreement, DMB acquired the crash test technology specialist retroactively as of January 1, 2019. The sellers are the two general managers Robert Weber and Dierk Arp, who will remain general managers of the group
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With a team led by M&A Partner Boris Dürr, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Primepulse SE and its subsidiary Katek SE on the acquisition of bebro electronic group and eSystems MTG GmbH. The acquisition of bebro and eSystems continues Katek’s expansion as one of Europe’s leading service providers in the electronics sector
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AGRAF German Real Estate Holding No. 1, a fund managed by Aquila Capital, has sold three freight terminals in Berlin, Leimen near Heidelberg, and St. Ingbert in Saarland to Savills Investment Management. A team led by Dr. Sönke Görgens and Dr. Michael Dröge, both Partners at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised Aquila Capital on the sale. Savills Investment Management acquired the three freight terminals on behalf of European Logistics Fund 2 for a purchase price of some EUR 48.7 million
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For the seventh consecutive time, trade magazine India Business Law Journal named Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek a “top international law firm for India-related work.” India Business Law Journal has been publishing an “Intelligence Report” for 13 years now, listing top law firms that have concluded Indian-related transactions in the past twelve months. This year, 600 law firms worldwide were analyzed
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By filing an action for annulment, the patent law team of the law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek ensured that the disputed teff patent no longer exists in Germany. The granting of the European teff patent was perceived as great injustice in Ethiopia, because it protected a well-known foodstuff by a European company under patent law. The plaintiff in the nullity action, Dr. Anton Horn, Head of the Heuking patent team, filed a lawsuit against this injustice
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What has already been the subject of media speculation last week has now become certainty: Kiesgrube Event GmbH and its CEO Tom Preuss, represented by lawyers Dr. Georg Jacobs and Marcel Maybaum, prevailed in three appeals in preliminary injunction proceedings before Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court
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On July 2, 2019, Stuttgart Higher Regional Court in second instance dismissed in full prospectus liability claims in connection with a bond issued by Scholz AG in 2012 and 2013 with a total issue volume of EUR 182.5 million. On October 25, 2018, Ellwangen Regional Court had already dismissed, in first instance, the collective redress and numerous individual lawsuits. The plaintiffs (legal counsel Dr
