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Rostock — In its Series A, Rostock-based insu­rance startup Heps­ter has recei­ved about €8.4 million ($10 million). New entrants are…

Wismar — Herbert Smith Freeh­ills has advi­sed PEARL Infra­struc­ture Capi­tal as majo­rity share­hol­der on an invest­ment toge­ther with Wismar Pellets…

Zurich — Funds advi­sed by Equis­tone Part­ners Europe (“Equis­tone”) are acqui­ring the Franke Water Systems divi­sion, a divi­sion of the…

Amsterdam/ Munich/ Berlin — Digi­tal busi­ness banking plat­form Penta Fintech GmbH (“Penta”) has closed a top-up Series B+ finan­cing round.…

Munich/ Karlsruhe/ Boulder — Brand­Ma­ker, foun­ded in 2008 and head­quar­te­red in Karls­ruhe, is a manu­fac­tu­rer of soft­ware in the areas…

Berlin, March 5, 2021 — SMP advi­sed a fund mana­ged by Dutch Rhein Manage­ment B.V. (Rhein Invest) on the acquisition…

Berlin, March 2021 — The Ameri­can-French luxury inves­tor L Catter­ton has acqui­red a stake in BIRKENSTOCK. The indi­rect share­hol­ders of…

Frank­furt a.M. — The brow­ser provi­der Brave has acqui­red the search engine Tail­cat. Tail­cat is an open search engine built…

Düssel­dorf — The invest­ment company Arca­ris takes over MAGRO Verbin­dungs­ele­mente GmbH as part of the company’s succes­sion. The sole shareholder…

Luxem­bourg — The public shares of Lake­star SPAC 1 SE, the first so-called Special Purpose Acqui­si­tion Company (SPAC) focu­sed on…

Palo Alto — Plume®, the company behind the smart home service offe­rings of more than 170 inter­net service provi­ders (CSPs)…

Maas­tricht (NL) — Mosa Meat, the Euro­pean food tech­no­logy company that laun­ched the worl­d’s first hambur­ger made from farmed beef…

Berlin — SMP advi­sed the newly foun­ded early-stage inves­tor Revent Capi­tal (Revent) on the struc­tu­ring of its venture capi­tal fund…

Düssel­dorf — A Deloitte Legal team led by Düssel­dorf-based corporate/M&A lawy­ers Michael von Rüden (Partner)and Thilo Hoff­mann (Coun­sel, both lead)…

Munich/ Leip­zig — ARQIS advi­sed the former share­hol­ders of the Leip­zig-based IT company forcont busi­ness tech­no­logy gmbh on the sale…

Colo­gne — NETWORK Corpo­rate Finance (NCF) advi­sed the Execu­tive Board of Bastei Lübbe AG on the restruc­tu­ring of its entire…

Hamburg — DLA Piper has advi­sed Hamburg-based KRAHN Chemie Group, part of the globally active Otto Krahn Group, on the…

Fank­furt a. Main — IK Invest­ment Part­ners (“IK”) has announ­ced that the IK VIII Fund has signed an agree­ment to…

Frank­furt — The commer­cial law firm Fried­rich Graf von West­pha­len & Part­ner (FGvW) is further expan­ding its office in Frankfurt…

Zurich — Neural Concept, the Swiss soft­ware company in the field of Compu­ter Aided Design (CAD) and Engi­nee­ring (CAE), is…

Munich — GENUI acqui­res a stake in FACT-Finder. FACT-Finder is the Euro­pean market leader for search, navi­ga­tion and merchan­di­sing in…

Munich / Münner­stadt — “We spice the future” — under this motto, the spice specia­list Vision Food GmbH, Münner­stadt, has…

Frankfurt/Düsseldorf — McDer­mott Will & Emery has advi­sed soft­ware inves­tor Main Capi­tal Part­ners on the acqui­si­tion of DATA-PLAN Compu­ter Consulting…

Lausanne/Boston — Next­hink, the leading provi­der of digi­tal employee expe­ri­ence manage­ment soft­ware, today announ­ced a $180 million Series D funding…

Vienna/Leobersdorf — Logsta, the logi­stics scale-up from Austria, with warehouse loca­ti­ons in Austria, Germany, UK and USA, impro­ves the efficiency…

Berlin — Educa­tion inves­tor Emerge Educa­tion is inves­t­ing in EdTech startup Tomor­ro­w’s Educa­tion. This is the first time the VC…

Munich — The MEA Group, a subsi­diary of the Munich-based indus­trial holding ADCURAM, is expan­ding its acti­vi­ties in the field…

Hamburg — SCIO Auto­ma­tion GmbH (“SCIO”), a port­fo­lio company of the funds advi­sed by Quadriga Capi­tal Eigen­ka­pi­tal­be­ra­tung GmbH, acqui­res Bilfinger…

Munich/ Frei­burg — With a team led by Part­ner Dr. Rainer Hersch­lein, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advi­sed Wagner Fern­mel­de­bau Holding…

Frank­furt a.M. — McDer­mott Will & Emery has advi­sed ABL-TECHNIC Entla­ckung GmbH and the invest­ment company behind it, Rubicon Partners,…

Bonn, Germany — Kranus Health, the digi­tal men’s health plat­form, today announ­ced a seven-figure seed funding. HTGF, A Round Capital,…

Munich/ Celle — Funds advi­sed by PINOVA Capi­tal GmbH (“PINOVA”) have acqui­red the majo­rity shares in ECOROLL AG Werk­zeug­tech­nik (“ECOROLL”),…