News – from GLNS

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.

GLNS advises funds advised by EMERAM Capital Partners on the sale of Matrix42 Group to private equity firm Corten Capital.

GLNS has advised the shareholders of the software consulting company verovis GmbH on the merger with the digital solutions, consulting and software company valantic. With the merger of verovis and valantic, customers in the field of planning and reporting will in the future have an end-to-end solution portfolio between ERP and control processes for the digitalization of the finance function available from a single source.

GLNS advised the shareholders of Motel a Miio GmbH on Maxburg Capital Partners' investment in the company.

GLNS advises clearvise AG, which is listed on the Hamburg, Dusseldorf and Munich stock exchanges, in connection with a capital increase from authorized capital with subscription rights in the amount of approximately EUR 8 million.