The Scandinavian private equity investor FSN Capital has invested in the Bäcker Görtz Group from Ludwigshafen. The family-owned company is the leading bakery chain in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region, where it currently has around 200 branches.
GLNS is committed to diversity and inclusion. An important part of this commitment is the regular GLNS Ladies Lunches, where female lawyers and student employees talk to external guests about issues women face in the course of their professional careers.
The international Teknia Group, headquartered in Spain, has acquired Forschner PTM GmbH from the German Forschner Group. With this acquisition, Teknia also acquires its first production facility in Germany, further improving its access to German OEM customers.
The Munich-based investment company Afinum has acquired a majority stake in Hartl Group GmbH. The group of companies is a leading provider of customised managed cloud services consisting of the other companies Adcom Computertechnik GmbH, CPL 24 GmbH and CPL 24 Asset & Licence Services LLC.
The Berlin-based start-up Razor Group GmbH has acquired 100 per cent of the shares in the European e-commerce aggregator factory14. With this, the Razor Group is expanding its portfolio, which already counts over 150 brands, by more than 20 additional e-commerce brands.
Der Private-Equity-Investor ECM Equity Capital Management GmbH ist bei dem Berliner Social Media Start-up Intermate Group eingestiegen. Die Transaktion erfolgte über den von ECM gemanagten Fonds German Equity Partners V. Die Gründer Alessandro De Pasquale, Jörn Mecher, Philip Papendieck, Sonja Wolff und Philipp Wolff halten weiterhin einen bedeutenden Anteil an ihrem Unternehmen und sind auch künftig als geschäftsführende Gesellschafter tätig.
The Merten Group, a mechanical engineering group from Austria, has acquired 100 percent of the share in the German company Gämmerler GmbH. The seller is Blue Cap AG, a Munich-based investment company that regularly invests in medium-sized niche companies with healthy core businesses and significant development potential. Blue Cap had acquired 100 percent of Gämmerler in 2011.
Munich-based multi-family holding Liberta Partners acquires e*Message Wireless Information Services Deutschland GmbH and e*Message Wireless Information Services France GmbH, based in Berlin and Paris. The acquisition is being made via Liberta Partners Fund II.
The investment company CGS has sold its majority stake in SF Tooling Group GmbH to the Swedish group Storskogen. SF Tooling is the world market leader in the production of die-casting moulds and tools for the automotive and aerospace industries.
Munich-based private equity investor Afinum has acquired a majority stake in Fishing King, the largest provider of online fishing courses in German-speaking countries. The seller is Fishing King's founder and CEO, Hubertus Maßong. He will continue to hold a stake in the company after Afinum's entry and will continue to manage Fishing King.
Dr Sebastian Schneider joined the dispute resolution department of GLNS on 1 September 2021. He previously worked in the corporate and litigation & arbitration practice groups of Latham & Watkins in Hamburg and in the litigation & arbitration practice group of DLA Piper in Munich for many years.
GLNS has advised the founders and managing directors of Smile Eyes Group, Dres. Wiltfang and Bechmann, on an investment by European private equity firm Trilantic Europe. The transaction is structured as a partnership between Trilantic Europe, the two founders of Smile Eyes and the management team with the intention of implementing a buy-and-build strategy in the German ophthalmology market.