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Dr. Anne de Boer from Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek together with a team led by Damian Maloney of Beauchamps have assisted the German company Schütz GmbH & Co KGaA in the acquisition of GEM Plastics Limited, an Irish company which is a specialist manufacturer of jerrycans and drums. Schütz GmbH & Co KGaA is a leading manufacturer of high-quality transport packaging
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With a team led by Dr. Henrik Lay, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Union Investment on matters of tax law relating to its acquisition of the Hanse Trio building complex in Rostock’s “Am neuen Werftdreieck” district from project developer LIST Develop Commercial. The acquisition with a purchase price in the mid double-digit million euro range was made on behalf of open-ended mutual property fund immofonds 1, which is exclusively distributed in Austria
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An M&A team led by Dr. Ali Sahin, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised Swedish Storskogen group on the acquisition of a 95 percent stake in SF Tooling Group, a manufacturer of high pressure die casting tools and carbon fibre tools in the automotive and aerospace industries, from CGS III (Jersey) L.P. Storskogen plans to further expand SF Tooling Group’s strong market position
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A team led by Dr. Hermann Ali Hinderer comprehensively advised Belgian HR specialist Copus Group NV on all legal and tax matters in relation to the acquisition of Germany’s Primus Personaldienstleistungen GmbH. The transaction is subject to the usual closing conditions. Primus Personaldienstleistungen has extensive experience in recruiting skilled workers in Eastern Europe, which Copus wants to utilize
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A team led by Dr. Anne de Boer advised eROCKIT AG on a digital share issue. The legal support included the draft of the securities information sheet including the licensing procedure at BaFin and the documentation for the digital issue with the involvement of the paying agent. Based in Henningsdorf near Berlin, eROCKIT AG is the holding company of eROCKIT Systems GmbH, which manufactures and sells the pedal-controlled eROCKIT electric motorcycle
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A team led by Sonja Groht and Marion Sangen-Emden, both Partners at Heuking’s Düsseldorf office, legally advised publicly listed Elmos Semiconductor SE (‘Elmos’) on the sale of its 200mm wafer fabrication activities (‘FAB’) at the Dortmund site to Silex Microsystems AB (‘Silex’). As part of the transaction, Elmos will transfer all relevant assets, contracts, and employment relationships directly linked to wafer manufacturing to a newly founded, stand-alone foundry operation
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A team led by Dr. Henrik Lay, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised Union Investment on matters of tax law in relation to the acquisition of the Cäcilium office building in Cologne by way of a share deal. The building was acquired for the holdings of special real estate fund UII German Prime Select. Constructed in 2009, Cäcilium benefits from an excellent location in Cologne city center
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Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, one of the major German commercial law firms, is the first law firm in Germany to develop its own whistleblower system. It aims to support businesses, authorities, municipalities, and associations with a comprehensive range of legal and technical services to meet the requirements of the EU Whistleblower Directive and of the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act
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A team led by Markus Lennartz, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, legally advised 1&1 Versatel Deutschland GmbH on entering into an agreement with 1&1 Mobilfunk GmbH on the lease of fiber optic connections and data centers with an initial term until the end of 2050. 1&1’s network combination of fiber optic connections and cloud-based OpenRAN architecture allows for particularly short transmission paths
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Heuking's Zurich office supports BitMEX, one of the world's largest crypto derivatives trading platforms, in its Swiss market entry. The trading platform was founded in 2014 and intends to conduct its brokerage business for crypto derivatives from Switzerland in the future. Cryptocurrency markets have grown substantially in 2021, outpacing growth of all other asset classes. A volume of over a trillion US dollars is traded on BitMEX every year
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A team led by Alexander Weber, Partner at Heuking’s Munich office, legally advised Döhler Ventures on the sale of its stake in Just Spices. Established in 2014, spice mix startup Just Spices most recently generated annual sales of some EUR 60 million. As part of its global expansion strategy, 85 percent of the shares held by the previous shareholders, including the stake held by Döhler Ventures, were now sold to Kraft Heinz group
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A team led by Christopher Görtz from Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Cologne office advises artec technologies AG on the issuance of a convertible bond in accordance with the new Electronic Securities Act as part of a pilot project. Granting statutory subscription rights to its shareholders, artec technologies AG intends to issue the innovative product to its shareholders presumably at the beginning of 2022
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Heuking has advised a private sector consortium led by Accenture and including Credit Suisse, Natixis, R3, SIX Digital Exchange and UBS which on December 8 announced that, together with the Banque de France, the Swiss National Bank and the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub, it has con-ducted a cross-border settlement experiment (entitled Project Jura) using two wholesale CBDCs («wCBDC») and a digital financial instrument
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Heuking has advised a private sector consortium led by Accenture and including Credit Suisse, Natixis, R3, SIX Digital Exchange and UBS which on December 8 announced that, together with the Banque de France, the Swiss National Bank and the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub, it has con-ducted a cross-border settlement experiment (entitled Project Jura) using two wholesale CBDCs («wCBDC») and a digital financial instrument
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Benedikt Raisch, Salaried Partner at Heuking’s Stuttgart office, legally advised entrepreneur Alexander Stein on the acquisition of 51% of the shares in Société des Produits d’Armagnac (SPA) from Pernod Ricard. The shares were acquired through investment company Cloudsweeper GmbH. Created in the 1930s and based in Eauze – considered the capital of Armagnac – in the Southwest of France, SPA owns Armagnac brands Marquis de Montesquiou and Comte de Lauvia
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Effective January 1, 2022, nine salaried partners of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek will be admitted to equity partnership. In addition, six senior associates will be promoted to salaried partners. Boris Dürr, new Managing Partner for Human Resources, is convinced that the firm is charting the right course
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A team led by Dr. Marc Scheunemann, Partner at Heuking, advised the Hong Kong-based beauty company Meiyume on the sale of Lornamead Germany with well-established brands such as CD and a portfolio of brands in the UK to the Italian Sodalis Group. The share purchase agreement was notarized on November 9, 2021 and the transaction was completed on November 30, 2021. Meiyume was also advised by Tiang & Partners in Hong Kong
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A team led by Dr. Thorsten Kuthe, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised The Naga Group AG, provider of the NAGA.com social network for trading, cryptocurrencies, and payments, on another capital increase. With total proceeds of EUR 34 million, this has been the company’s largest equity funding round to date. Naga will use the proceeds to accelerate customer growth, expand into new regions, and recruit new employees
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A team led by Dr. Johan Schneider, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Hamburg office, legally advised Rheinmetall Technical Publications GmbH, a subsidiary of MDAX-listed Rheinmetall AG, on acquiring the business operations of EMT Ingenieurgesellschaft Dipl.-Ing. Hartmut Euer mbH, which is in insolvency
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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 KEYLENS GmbH on the sale of all shares to Prophet group. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price. KEYLENS GmbH is a strategy consulting firm with offices in Munich and Hamburg
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Boris Dürr and Christian Schild legally advised PRIMEPULSE SE and KATEK SE on the acquisition of stakes in iOX Mobility GmbH. PRIMEPULSE SE acquired more than 20 percent and KATEK SE acquired 10 percent in iOX Mobility GmbH as part of a capital increase. In addition to KATEK SE and PRIMEPULSE SE, KATEK CEO Rainer Koppitz and founder Christoph Ballin also participated in the funding round
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A team led by capital markets expert Dr. Mirko Sickinger, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Cologne office, advised Blu Horizon Capital Group S.A., Luxemburg, on listing its shares on the Regulated Unofficial Market of Düsseldorf Stock Exchange. Blu Horizon Capital Group S.A
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A team led by Dr. Sönke Görgens, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, advised HIH Invest Real Estate GmbH on the acquisition of “Deli,” a mixed-use neighborhood shopping center in Duisburg, on behalf of open-ended special AIF “Perspektive Einzelhandel: Fokus Nahversorgung.” The Heuking team legally advised HIH Invest comprehensively and conducted legal and tax due diligence. The “Deli” neighborhood shopping center is located in the Rheinhausen district at Asterlager Str
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A Heuking team led by Benedikt Raisch advised FairCap on the acquisition of two plants from BARTEC group operating in safety-related electrical engineering for underground mining and industry. The acquired sites previously formed BARTEC group’s “Mining” division. The plants in Menden (Sauerland, asset deal) and Tychy (Poland, share deal) are active in the development and production, trade, and servicing of electrical safety switchgear and in machining technology
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The Volker Hinz (1947 - 2019) photo archive comprises some 1.3 million photographs. Dr. Stefan Duhnkrack, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Hamburg office, represented and legally advised the photographer’s estate on the sale of the collection to the Bavarian State Library. The library is using this testimony to Germany’s photography to further expand its largest public picture archive in Germany
