Exit: Shareholders of synvert sell to Hitachi

Munich — The share­hol­ders of synvert Holding GmbH (“synvert”), inclu­ding Maxburg Betei­li­gun­gen III GmbH & Co KG (“Maxburg”), advi­sed by Maxburg Capi­tal Part­ners GmbH, have sold their shares in synvert to Hita­chi, Ltd (“Hita­chi”). Synvert will become part of Global­Lo­gic Inc, the US subsi­diary of Hita­chi and a global leader in digi­tal engi­nee­ring. Will­kie acted as legal coun­sel to the share­hol­ders of synvert.

Head­quar­te­red in Müns­ter, synvert has offices in Munich, Hamburg, Croa­tia, Spain, Portu­gal and Abu Dhabi. The company offers a compre­hen­sive range of cloud, data and AI consul­ting services. Foun­ded in 1991, the company employs around 550 experts. Synvert is a market leader that is widely reco­gni­zed and appre­cia­ted for its excel­lent tech­ni­cal exper­tise, exten­sive indus­try know­ledge and unique ability to make complex data struc­tures under­stan­da­ble and analyzable. 

The tran­sac­tion is expec­ted to be comple­ted in the finan­cial year ending March 31, 2026, subject to the usual regu­la­tory approvals.

Advi­sor to the synvert share­hol­ders: Will­kie Farr & Gallag­her LLP

The Will­kie team was led by part­ner Dr. Axel Wahl (photo, Corporate/M&A, Munich) and compri­sed part­ner Dr. Bettina Bokeloh (Tax, Frank­furt), coun­sel Sebas­tian Bren­ner (Corporate/M&A, Frank­furt) and Aurel Hille (Anti­trust, Washing­ton) and asso­cia­tes Nils Bock (Corporate/M&A, Frank­furt), Nils Hörnig and Fabiola C. Haas (both Corporate/M&A, Munich) and Dr. Laurin Havlik (Anti­trust, Munich)

Will­kie Farr & Gallag­her LLP provi­des leading legal solu­ti­ons to complex, busi­­ness-criti­­cal issues affec­ting diverse markets and indus­tries. Our appro­xi­m­ately 1,300 lawy­ers in 16 offices world­wide provide inno­va­tive, prag­ma­tic and sophisti­ca­ted legal services in more than 45 prac­tice areas. — www.willkie.com

Advi­sor to Global­Lo­gic (on the acqui­si­tion of synvert), a US subsi­diary of the Japa­nese Hita­chi Group: Gleiss Lutz 

The follo­wing Gleiss Lutz team led by Dr. Ralf
Mors­häu­ser and Dr. Rainer Loges (both part­ners, M&A, Munich) advised
Hita­chi Group and GlobalLogic:

Franz-Ferdi­nand Guggen­mos, Ansgar Johan­nes Grosch (both Munich), Dr. Phil­ipp Pord­zik (Frank­furt, all M&A), Dr. Jacob von Andreae (Part­ner), Aylin Hoffs (Coun­sel, both Public Law, Düssel­dorf), Dr. Matthias Werner (Part­ner), Dr. Jose­fine Börner, Magda­lena Rauch (all IP/Tech, Munich), Dr. Moritz Holm-Hadulla (Part­ner), Dr. Iris Bene­­dikt-Bucken­­leib (Coun­sel), Dr. Anto­nia Hage­dorn, Dr. Matthias Reiner (all Anti­trust, Munich), Dr. Marcus Reischl (Part­ner), Tabea Leidin­ger (both Compli­ance & Inves­ti­ga­ti­ons, Frank­furt), Dr. Ocka Stumm (Part­ner, Frank­furt), Dr. Hendrik Marchal (Coun­sel, Hamburg), Julian Kette­mer (Frank­furt, all Tax Law), Dr. Johan­nes Niewerth (Part­ner, Hamburg/London), Lesley A. Milde (Hamburg, both Real Estate Law), Thomas Kulzer (Coun­sel), Dr. Jan-Alex­an­­der Lange (Coun­sel), Dr. Niklas Kaiser (all Banking & Finance, Frank­furt), Dr. Tobias Johan­nes Abend (Coun­sel), Lea Kuhr (both Employ­ment Law, Frank­furt), Dr. Manuel Klar (Coun­sel, Data Protec­tion, Munich).

— www.gleisslutz.com

Gleiss Lutz has worked as lead coun­sel with the follo­wing law firms: 

Pérez-Llorca (Spain and Portu­gal), Walder Wyss (Switz­er­land), Hadef & Part­ners (UAE), Honig­man (USA), Brodies (UK) and Schoen­herr (Croa­tia).