Freshfields advises Springer Nature on Scientific American US divestment
Freshfields has advised Springer Nature on the divestment of its consumer media business Scientific American in the United States. Scientific American, a popular science publication, is to be acquired by LabX Media Group.
Springer Nature simultaneously announced the divestment of Spektrum der Wissenschaft, a German-language science magazine, to GeraNova Bruckmann, a Germany-based publishing group.
Legal teams
Springer Nature’s in-house legal team on the transaction was led by Isabella Stocks, senior legal counsel, and Karoline Haufler, vice president corporate legal.
The Freshfields team was led by partner Lars Meyer (Berlin/Frankfurt) and counsel Xiaoguang Cai (Berlin), both from the Corporate/M&A practice, together with partner Theresa Ehlen (Düsseldorf) and principal associate Max Zellerhoff (Hamburg), both from commercial/IP.
The wider core team comprised partner Nicole Foster and associate Juan Pastor, both from employment law, counsel Lisa Cammer from corporate/M&A (all based in New York), associates Asta von Kienitz (Hamburg, commercial/IP) and Alena Lieder (Berlin, corporate/M&A), counsel Philipp Roos (Düsseldorf) and associate Felix Müller-Eising (Frankfurt), partner Marissa Yu (San Francisco) and associate Olivia Luongo (New York), both from IP/IT, partner Uwe Salaschek and associate Manuel Erman, both from antitrust (Berlin), and partner Joe Soltis from tax (New York).
