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The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Foundation released “The 2025 State of Cybersecurity Report: An In-house Perspective” showing that, globally, CLOs are quickly becoming integral leaders in cybersecurity strategy, holding leadership positions, and frequently reporting cybersecurity strategies to the company board. The results are based on a survey of 278 in-house legal professionals across 16 countries and 20 industries. In this article, the words of Veta T. Richardson (PICTURED), President of the ACC Foundation and President & CEO of ACC, and Jennifer Chen, Executive Director of the ACC Foundation. Read the full article >> https://lnkd.in/daSf8GUr #LegalcommunityGERMANY #report #cybersecurity

The commercial law firm GOF Gütt Olk Feldhaus (GOF) – with a team led by Dr. Heiner Feldhaus (PICTURED LEFT) – has advised Maxburg Beteiligungen on the sale of GfS Gesellschaft für Sicherheitstechnik to ASSA ABLOY Sicherheitstechnik, advised by Clifford Chance Germany, with a team led by Dr. Moritz Petersen (PICTURED RIGHT). Maxburg Beteiligungen, an investment company focused on the German-speaking region and advised by Maxburg Capital Partners, concentrates on long-term investments in companies. Maxburg invests in both privately held and listed companies. Gütt Olk Feldhaus, Munich: Dr Heiner Feldhaus (Partner, Lead, M&A/Corporate), Dr. Tilmann Guett, (Partner, Banking/Finance), Thomas Becker (Of Counsel, IP/IT/data protection and commercial), Matthias Uelner (Counsel), Sophie Steffen (Associate) (both M&A/Corporate), Anja Schmidt (Associate, Banking/Finance) Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law, Munich: Ingo Sappa (Partner, Employment Law) Kind & Drews, Düsseldorf: Dr Ernesto Drews (Partner, Tax Law) Clifford Chance, Frankfurt: Dr Moritz Petersen (Partner), Helge Brück, Natalie Hemberger (both Associates; all Corporate/M&A). Read the full article >> https://lnkd.in/d9FD4VsE #LegalcommunityGERMANY #operation #investment #lawfirm #lawyers

Greenberg Traurig, LLP – with a team led by Dr. Kati Beckmann (PICTURED) and composed of Claudia Stremel, Peter Zingel, and Florian Deitel, – advised FAP Group on the structuring and launch of a new real estate debt fund for a global U.S. investment manager. Read the full article >> https://lnkd.in/dnUnDa3Z #LegalcommunityGERMANY #operation #realestate #lawfirm #lawyers

A Noerr team led by Michael Brellochs, Florian Becker and Thomas Heitzer (ALL PICTURED, LEFT TO RIGHT) has advised the Generali Group as part of a consortium on the acquisition of the Viridium Group. Viridium is a leading European life insurance consolidation platform. A consortium made up of Allianz, BlackRock and T&D Holdings will acquire ownership of Viridium from Cinven. Generali Financial Holdings and Hannover Re will remain investors in Viridium and join the consortium. Through this transaction, the financial advisor Cinven exits from its majority investment in Viridium after more than a decade of developing a highly successful insurance business. The transaction value amounts to approximately €3.5 billion. The team from Noerr that adivised Generali was composed of: Corporate/M&A: Georg Christian Langheld (associated partner, Munich), Dr. Christian Haagen (senior associate, Munich), Jana Landh?u?er (associate, Munich) Insurance and Financial Markets Regulation: Dr. Karl-Alexander Neumann (partner, Hamburg), Dirk Erdelkamp (senior associate, Hamburg), Ellen Seib (associate, Dusseldorf), Niels Breyer (associate, Dusseldorf) Investment Funds and Asset Management: Sebastian Voigt (partner, Dresden), Dr. Dominik Pokora (senior associate, Dresden), Dr. Antonio Bela (senior associate, Berlin) Antitrust and Competition: Jens Peter Schmidt (partner, Brussels), Fabian Badtke (partner, Frankfurt), Fabian Hübener (associated partner, Brussels), Sven Betzend?rfer (senior associate, Brussels) Digital Business: Prof. Dr. Peter Br?utigam (partner, Munich), Patrick Neidinger, (associated partner, Munich), Dr. Lennart Laude (associate, Munich) Tax: Carsten Heinz (partner, Munich), Tim L?per (associated partner, Munich) Read the full article >> https://lnkd.in/dqJqsc-j #LegalcommunityGERMANY #operation #lawfirm #lawyers

A CMS in Germany team led by partner Dr Malte Bruhns (PICTURED) played a leading role in providing legal and tax advice to the UX Group shareholders on the sale of the company to the Steliau Technology Group, a portfolio group of the international private equity investor Astorg that is based in France. The advice also covered the re-investment of individual sellers and top managers in various participation programmes in the buyer group. Read the full article >> https://lnkd.in/dD3hHUHs #LegalcommunityGERMANY #legalandtax #lawfirm #lawyers

Legal advisers from multi-billion-dollar companies have revealed how they expect law firms to evolve by the year 2035, in a new global survey published by international law firm Simmons & Simmons called “Law firm of the future”. When interviewed, general counsel and other senior legal heads from some of the world’s largest companies in the UK, Europe, USA, Asia and the Middle East, were asked how they expect firms to transform in ten years’ time, based on a number of emerging trends in the profession today. In this article, the words of Senior Partner Julian Taylor (PICTURED). Read the full article >> https://lnkd.in/dvZtqV3k #Legalcommunitygermany #survey

DLA Piper has advised Keensight Capital on the acquisition of a majority stake in ACTICO Group. The management team of ACTICO Group and the existing shareholder BU Bregal Unternehmerkapital (“BU Funds”), the largest mid-cap investor based in the DACH region, will reinvest alongside Keensight Capital. We already talked about this acquisition here. The DLA Piper team was led by partner Lars Jessen (Private Equity/M&A, Frankfurt, PICTURED) with counsel Till Burmeister (Private Equity/M&A, Hamburg), Sven Bischoff (Tax, Frankfurt), senior associate Daniel Osmanovic, and associate Felix Groppenb?cher (both Corporate/M&A, Frankfurt) forming the core team. The team also included partners Dr. Nico Brunotte (IT, Hamburg), Semin O (Antitrust), Dr. Wolfram Distler (Finance; both Frankfurt), Dr. Henriette Norda (Employment Law) and Verena Grentzenberg (Data Protection; both Hamburg); senior counsel Dr. Ute Brunner-Reumann (Finance/Regulatory, Frankfurt); counsel Dr. Enno Ahlenstiel (Antitrust, Cologne), Georg Haberkorn (Pensions, Munich) and Patrick Reuter (Finance, Frankfurt); senior associates Andreas Rüdiger (Data Protection), Ina Fey (Antitrust, both Cologne) and Rainer Hartmann (Tax, Frankfurt); as well as associates Jonas Riesenkampff (IP/IT), Philipp Schmechel, (Data Protection; both Hamburg), Dr. Philipp Adelberg (Data Protection, Cologne), Franziska Golombek (Employment Law, Hamburg), Jannik Becker (Tax) and Dr. Victoria Adouvi, (Finance/Regulatory; both Frankfurt). Read the full article >> https://lnkd.in/dyFUVGQT #Legalcommunitygermany #acquisition #lawfirm #lawyers

The International Bar Association (IBA) has unveiled the second phase of its comprehensive “50:50 by 2030” initiative, which aims to tackle persistent gender disparity in leadership positions throughout the legal sector. Working in partnership with LexisNexis‘ charitable foundation, the IBA’s Legal Policy and Research Unit is launching this next stage with a comprehensive global survey targeting female legal professionals across all practice areas. The project was championed by Almudena Arpón de Mendívil Aldama (PICTURED), the IBA’s recent past president from Spain, during her two-year leadership term. The initial phase produced 11 regional reports covering jurisdictions across five continents, including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Nigeria, and Mexico. The program received recognition at the 2024 Women and Diversity in Law Awards hosted by this publication. Current IBA president Jaime Carey underscored the importance of continuing his predecessor’s work on gender inequality in the legal field. Read the full article >> https://lnkd.in/eyShy4_K #Legalcommunitygermany #initiative #legalsector

Funds managed by BU Bregal Unternehmerkapital – the largest and most active mid-cap investment company based in the DACH region – have signed an agreement with Keensight Capital – one of the leading private equity managers active in Growth Buyout investments across Europe – for the sale of a majority stake in portfolio company ACTICO Group. According to anonymous sources close to LegalcommunityGERMANY, the financial and legal advisors who worked on the deal are: Raymond James, EY and Latham & Watkins. In this article, the words of Hans Juergen Rieder, CEO of ACTICO Group, Philipp Struth, Partner at BU, and Stanislas de Tinguy, Partner at Keensight Capital. #Legalcommunitygermany #agreement #investment #lawfirm #lawyers Read the full article --> https://lnkd.in/dN2TtFwh