Boston\/ Berlin \u2014 A YPOG team co-led by Martin Scha\u00adper and Tim Schl\u00f6s\u00adser advi\u00adsed Boston-based private equity firm Great Hill Part\u00adners on its invest\u00adment in German sales intel\u00adli\u00adgence provi\u00adder Echo\u00adbot and Finnish online plat\u00adform Lead\u00adfee\u00adder. The merger, offi\u00adci\u00adally announ\u00adced by both compa\u00adnies, is supported by a \u20ac180 million invest\u00adment from Great Hill Part\u00adners. Great Hill will use the capi\u00adtal to support the newly formed group in its product deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment, sales expan\u00adsion and inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal growth. A further \u20ac50 million was allo\u00adca\u00adted to future stra\u00adte\u00adgic acquisitions.<\/p>\n
The combi\u00adned group is led by Echo\u00adbot foun\u00adder Bastian Karweg as CEO and Lead\u00adfee\u00adder foun\u00adder Pekka Koski\u00adnen as CPO. Head\u00adquar\u00adte\u00adred in Germany, the company opera\u00adtes with a globally networked team of 250 employees at six loca\u00adti\u00adons in Europe and the U.S., serving 8,500 customers.<\/p>\n
The YPOG team of<\/strong> Martin Scha\u00adper (photo)<\/strong> and Tim Schl\u00f6s\u00adser worked with a team from Choate Hall & Stewart LLP<\/strong> led by Daniel P. Riley. Marius Fritz\u00adsche and Luca Rawe of Pusch Wahlig Work\u00adplace Law<\/strong> advi\u00adsed on labor law issues, Pascal Friton and Florian Wolf of Blom\u00adstein were invol\u00adved for sanc\u00adtions law issues. A team from the Finnish law firm Meri\u00adlampi<\/strong>, led by Antti Kahri, advi\u00adsed on the Finnish part of the transaction.<\/p>\n Advi\u00adsor Great Hill Part\u00adners: YPOG<\/strong> About Great Hill Partners About Echo\u00adbot About Lead\u00adfee\u00adder About YPOG<\/strong> Boston\/ Berlin \u2014 A YPOG team co-led by Martin Scha\u00adper and Tim Schl\u00f6s\u00adser advi\u00adsed Boston-based private equity firm Great Hill Part\u00adners on its invest\u00adment in German sales intel\u00adli\u00adgence provi\u00adder Echo\u00adbot and Finnish online plat\u00adform Lead\u00adfee\u00adder. The merger, offi\u00adci\u00adally announ\u00adced by both compa\u00adnies, is supported by a \u20ac180 million invest\u00adment from Great Hill Part\u00adners. Great Hill [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1365,1366,1368,1369,1372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-en","category-featured-en","category-private-equity-en","category-news-en","category-lawyers-tax-consultants-auditors","category-investors","category-consultant"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nDr. Martin Scha\u00adper (Co-Lead, Corporate\/Transactions), Partner
\nDr. Tim Schl\u00f6s\u00adser (Co-Lead, Corporate\/Transactions), Partner
\nDr. Stephan Bank (Corporate\/Transactions), Partner
\nDr. Malte Berg\u00admann (Tax), Partner
\nAnn-Kris\u00adtin Loch\u00admann (Tax), Asso\u00adcia\u00adted Partner
\nDr. Bene\u00addikt Fl\u00f6ter (IP\/IT), Asso\u00adcia\u00adted Partner
\nDr. Karen Freh\u00admel-K\u00fcck (Corporate\/Transactions), Senior Associate
\nDr. Martyna Sabat (Tran\u00adsac\u00adtions), Senior Associate
\nBarbara Hasse (Corporate\/Transactions), Associate
\nAlex\u00adan\u00adder Sekunde (Corporate\/Antitrust), Associate
\nMelisa Keme (Corporate\/Transactions), Associate
\nBenja\u00admin M\u00fcller (Corporate\/Transactions), Associate<\/p>\n
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\nGreat Hill Part\u00adners is a Boston-based private equity firm seeking invest\u00adments of $25 million to $500 million in high-growth compa\u00adnies in soft\u00adware, digi\u00adtal commerce, finan\u00adcial tech\u00adno\u00adlogy, health\u00adcare and digi\u00adtal infra\u00adstruc\u00adture. Over the past two deca\u00addes, Great Hill has recei\u00adved more than twelve billion dollars in commit\u00adments and inves\u00adted in more than 90 compa\u00adnies. Great Hill has an exten\u00adsive track record of buil\u00adding long-term part\u00adner\u00adships with entre\u00adpre\u00adneurs and provi\u00adding flexi\u00adble resour\u00adces to help mid-sized compa\u00adnies expand. Great Hill was recently reco\u00adgni\u00adzed for its leader\u00adship in the indus\u00adtry, ranking #5 in the HEC \u2014 DowJones.<\/p>\n
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\nEcho\u00adbot is a leading sales intel\u00adli\u00adgence plat\u00adform for Euro\u00adpean markets. Over 1,500 custo\u00admers bene\u00adfit from high-quality B2B data and thus easily digi\u00adtize their sales & marke\u00adting proces\u00adses. Arti\u00adfi\u00adcial intel\u00adli\u00adgence and the dyna\u00admic company data\u00adbase help to select the target group in a fine-granu\u00adlar way and thus gene\u00adrate more B2B leads, new custo\u00admers and sales. Echo\u00adbot deli\u00advers the most important infor\u00adma\u00adtion about the desi\u00adred custo\u00admer in seconds \u2014 comple\u00adtely DSGVO-compliant!<\/p>\n
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\nLead\u00adfee\u00adder is B2B lead gene\u00adra\u00adtion soft\u00adware that uses your anony\u00admous web traf\u00adfic to gather data about custo\u00admer buying inten\u00adti\u00adons. Lead\u00adfee\u00adder iden\u00adti\u00adfies the compa\u00adnies that visit your website, how they got there, their beha\u00advior and their purchase inten\u00adti\u00adons. With over 60,000 users world\u00adwide, Lead\u00adfee\u00adder is the sales and marke\u00adting tool of choice to improve lead generation.<\/p>\n
\nYPOG is a specia\u00adlist tax and commer\u00adcial law firm opera\u00adting in the core areas of Corpo\u00adrate, Funds, Liti\u00adga\u00adtion, Tax, Tran\u00adsac\u00adtions, IP\/IT, Notary Services, Banking + Finan\u00adcial Services and FinTech + Block\u00adchain. The YPOG team advi\u00adses a wide variety of clients. These include emer\u00adging tech\u00adno\u00adlogy compa\u00adnies and family-run medium-sized enter\u00adpri\u00adses as well as corpo\u00adra\u00adti\u00adons and private equity\/venture capi\u00adtal funds. YPOG is one of the leading addres\u00adses for venture capi\u00adtal, private equity and fund struc\u00adtu\u00adring in Germany. The firm and its part\u00adners are natio\u00adnally and inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnally ranked by JUVE, Best Lawy\u00aders, Legal 500, Focus, and Cham\u00adbers and Part\u00adners. Today, YPOG employs more than 90 expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adced lawy\u00aders, tax advi\u00adsors, tax specia\u00adlists and a notary in three offices in Berlin, Hamburg and Colo\u00adgne. Further infor\u00adma\u00adtion: www.ypog.law<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"