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The business law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek significantly increased its revenue in fiscal 2017. Annual revenue stood at EUR 149.5 million for 2017, EUR 16.1 million above the prior-year figure of EUR 133.4 million, accounting for an increase of 12.1 percent. The firm had already achieved a similarly large increase in 2014, when revenue rose by 12 percent year-over-year. "While our expectations for 2017 were high, they have even been exceeded
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Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised funds advised by Triton on the acquisition of BFC Group, a leading global specialist and technology leader in metal clamping profiles for the automotive industry. A team led by Cologne-based partner Dr. Pär Johansson comprehensively supported Triton in this transaction. BFC Group, based in Bietigheim-Bissingen, is an automotive supplier of metal clamping profiles for vehicle door, trunk, and other body seals
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Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek comprehensively advised DATAGROUP SE on the acquisition of all shares in Reutlingen-based almato GmbH and accompanied the transaction. Almato GmbH, founded in 2002, specializes in optimizing standard business processes and is one of the pioneers in the field of full and partial automation. DATAGROUP SE, headquartered in Pliezhausen, is a leading German IT service company with more than 1,900 employees
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Supported by a team led by real estate expert Dr. Peter Vocke, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Munich-based Domicil Real Estate Group sold a real estate portfolio in the Rhine-Neckar region (including Mannheim, Karlsruhe, and Schwetzingen) via its newly established Block Sales department
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As of February 2018, the business law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek has added another element to digitizing its processes: a solution developed by LAWLIFT is now available to lawyers and assistants. Lawlift supports lawyers in drafting documents such as briefs or contracts with the aid of intelligent functions. The software's application areas are manifold, allowing not only contracts, but also letters and pleadings to be processed optimally and created more efficiently
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BLB, the North-Rhine Westphalia Building and Property Management Department, will build a modern correctional facility in Münster-Wolbeck. The new correctional facility that will be able to house 640 prisoners will replace Germany's oldest correctional facility in Münster's city center and is expected to be completed by 2024. BLB selected an 18-hectare site on the outskirts of Münster's Wolbeck district. The properties are within a radius of 10
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A team led by capital market law expert Dr. Mirko Sickinger, LL. M., Partner at the Cologne office of the law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised De Raj Group AG on its Vienna Stock Exchange listing. The Vienna Stock Exchange admitted the shares of De Raj Group AG to official trading on February 2, 2018 with the first trading day set for February 8, 2018
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With a team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Partner at the firm's Cologne office, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Accentro Real Estate AG on issuing a EUR 100 million corporate bond. Accentro intends to use the net proceeds from the issue primarily to finance the acquisition of new real estate assets in Germany. ODDO BHF SCA issued the bond with a term of three years as part of a private placement. It is Accentro's largest debt financing measure on the capital market to date
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Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised German investment firm Odewald KMU, which specializes in medium-sized businesses, on the sale of its stake in 7days group, a provider of workwear for the healthcare sector, to private equity firm Silverfleet Capital. A team led by Cologne-based partner Dr. Pär Johansson worked extensively on this transaction on behalf of Odewald KMU. Marc Staperfeld and Ulrich Dölken, founders of 7days group, will remain with the company by way of share buyback
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With a team led by Dr. Pär Johansson, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH (Haniel) on the acquisition of Optimar, a leading provider of automated fish processing systems. Norwegian financial investors Credo Partners and the company's management are the sellers. The current management team led by CEO Håvard Sætre will continue to run Optimar as part of Haniel group. With this acquisition, Haniel is further expanding its portfolio in an innovative business area
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The metropolitan region of Hamburg has started planning for an express cycling network. A total of nine “corridors” will be used to create four-meter-wide cycle paths from Hamburg to Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, linking the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg, Lüneburg, Lübeck, Wismar, and many other surrounding municipalities and districts. The Hamburg metropolitan region hired procurement law experts Dr. Martin Schellenberg and Dr
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A team led by Dr. Anne de Boer assisted Cloud No 7 group, a member of Schwäbische Wohnungs AG, in the sale of Cloud No 7’s hotel in Stuttgart to KanAM’s Fokus Süddeutschland fund, replacing the existing financing. Cloud No 7 is a high-rise with luxury residences, business apartments, and a hotel in Stuttgart’s Europaviertel area. The hotel will be the first Jaz Hotel that will be part of Steigenberger group. Dr. Anne de Boer and Dr
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A team comprised of members from various offices, led by Stuttgart-based partner Dr. Peter Ladwig, advised TimePartner Group, one of Germany's leading personnel service providers, on the acquisition of the HR services division from Weiderer Holding GmbH and accompanied the transaction. The transaction comprised all shares held by Weiderer Holding GmbH in aartos Personalservice, Weiderer Personaldienste, and opTEAMum Personaldienstleistungen
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A team comprised of members from various offices, led by Stuttgart-based partner Dr. Peter Ladwig, comprehensively advised HR service provider TP Group Service GmbH on the acquisition of Mach Professionals GmbH and accompanied the transaction. The temporary employment group House of HR, which acquired TimePartner Group last year, thus continues its expansion path in Germany
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A team led by Dr. Pär Johansson from Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Cologne office advised German investment firm Odewald KMU II, which specializes in medium-sized businesses, on the acquisition of Langer & Laumann Ingenieurbüro GmbH from Nordwalde. Langer & Laumann Ingenieurbüro GmbH specializes in installing and modernizing door drives for elevators and safety doors on or in machinery
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Michael Schmittmann, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Düsseldorf office and renowned media lawyer, successfully represented the Saxon State Institute for Private Broadcasting and New Media (SLM) against the Free State of Saxony. In its December 19, 2017 judgement, the Saxon Higher Administrative Court in Bautzen ruled that, contrary to the first-instance judgement of Leipzig Administrative Court, the action by SLM against a supervisory complaint of the State Chancellery would be upheld
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Victory for 1. FSV Mainz 05 e. V. (Mainz 05), the Bundesliga soccer league, and all teams in professional team sports: On January 16, 2018, the Federal Labor Court ruled for the first time that time limits are effective for players in team sports, specifically in Bundesliga soccer (Case: 7 AZR 312/16). Employment lawyer Dr. Johan-Michel Menke, partner at the Hamburg office of the law firm of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, successfully advised Mainz 05 on the appeal and the legal review by the court
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Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Aschheim-based Munich Brand Hub AG on converting receivables from a bond issued by Laurèl GmbH into shares in Munich Brand Hub AG (“debt-to-equity swap”). The company was also advised on listing the shares on the Munich Stock Exchange. Laurèl GmbH is an international fashion company whose assets were subject to insolvency proceedings under its own administration. In 2012, the company had issued a bond with a total volume of EUR 20 million
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With a team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised The Grounds Real Estate Development AG on a reverse IPO by contributing The Grounds Real Estate AG to a shell company. Subsequently, a private placement in Germany was successfully completed with the subscription of 2.2 million shares. The next step will be a dual listing of The Grounds Real Estate Development AG shares in the AltX segment of Johannesburg Stock Exchange
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With a team led by Dr. Michael Dröge, Partner at the Hamburg office, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised the shareholders of thinXXS Microtechnology AG, including majority shareholder PRICAP Venture Partners AG, on the sale of their shares to a subsidiary of IDEX Corporation. thinXXS Microtechnology AG is a technology leader in the field of microfluidic systems, in particular in the diagnostics market
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The Senate Administration of the state of Berlin successfully concluded a new contract for the operation of public lighting systems. The contract valued in the multi-million euro range was awarded after a call for competition and negotiations with several companies in December 2017. The contract provides the basis for more environmentally friendly and efficient lighting for Europe's largest connected lighting network
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Advised by Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Munich-based DOMICIL Real Estate Group acquired the LivING residential real estate portfolio in Ingolstadt. The portfolio consists of 21 buildings comprising 508 residential units and 236 parking spaces. It was sold by the open-ended public AIF Wertgrund WohnSelect D as part of a structured bidding process in which DOMICIL prevailed. A real estate team from various offices and across several legal fields led by Düsseldorf-based real estate partner Dr
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A team of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek led by Dr. Peter Ladwig advised sensor and automation specialist Balluff GmbH on the acquisition of software company iss innovative software services GmbH and of machine vision pioneer Matrix Vision GmbH Bildverarbeitung. AS part of the transactions, which were negotiated in parallel, Balluff acquired 100% of iss innovative software services, while the previous shareholders of Matrix Vision retain a 25% stake in the company
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Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek's Stuttgart office continues to expand. Coming from Menold Bezler, Dr. Andreas Schabenberger will work as equity partner at the Stuttgart office effective January 1, 2018. He will be joined by Senior Associate Monika Küppers and Associate Felix Drefs. Schabenberger (54) has been working in intellectual property law for more than 23 years
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A team led by Munich-based M&A partner Boris Dürr advised Celenus SE, a subsidiary of publicly listed Orpea S.A., on the acquisition of a majority stake in Inoges group. The company's founder Wolfgang K. Hoever will stay on after Orpea's entry as a new majority shareholder and continue to advance the company’s expansion. Inoges group is a leader in outpatient rehabilitation in Germany and also operates two inpatient rehabilitation facilities
