With its ruling of 28 August 2024, Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court overturned a decision by the Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) of 31 May 2022 in which the latter had found that a non-compete covenant agreed by STIHL with
Baker McKenzie advised Oldenburgische Landesbank Aktiengesellschaft (OLB) in its capacity as sole mandated lead arranger and lender on the financing of the acquisition of adlicious Group by the Dutch investor FIELDS Group. Nordic Trustee acted
The Management Board of Deutsche Bahn AG signed an agreement for the sale of its logistics subsidiary DB Schenker to the Danish transport and logistics group DSV for an enterprise value of EUR 14.3 billion. Including
Paul Hastings team in Frankfurt advised European private equity investor Bregal Unternehmerkapital on the acquisition of Communardo from, inter alia, Prom12 Capital Fund I, advised by Loyens Loeff Swiss team. The Paul Hastings team was
German online fitness operator Gymondo, since 2020 in the portfolio of private equity fund Oakley Capital, enters the Italian and Spanish markets with the acquisition of Buddyfit, company founded in 2020 by Giovanni Ciferri, Stefano Manzoni and
Giovanni Lombardi (PICTURED), general counsel of illimity Bank and general manager of illimity foundation and chairman of LAISA, now also holds the role of treasurer officer of the Corporate Counsel Forum (CCF) of the International
Focusing growth on “priority” areas: that’s the post-merger integration plan A&O Shearman has outlined. Three the main points of this strategy: the closure of the Johannesburg office, a 10% reduction in the global
Starting January 2025, Dr. Hilka Schneider (PICTURED) will be responsible for DHL‘s legal affairs as executive vice president legal services and as chief compliance officer. In her new role, she will take care of risk
DLA Piper has appointed partners Dr Michael Zollner (PICTURED LEFT) and Dr Carl Renner (PICTURED RIGHT) to establish and lead the Legal Delivery Centre (LDC) in Germany from September 1, 2024, which is part of DLA Piper’
VINCI Energies has acquired the German Fernao Group, one of the leading cybersecurity services providers in Germany and Switzerland. This acquisition will enable VINCI Energies to strengthen and complement its expertise in cybersecurity, IT services
