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Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz advised a group of investors compris-ing Renolit, Solvay Participations Belgique, the High-Tech Grün-derfonds and Ffilipa Venture Capital on a series-A financing round of 3D-printer developer Kumovis GmbH.

Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz advised StoryBox GmbH, Munich, on its Pre-Series A financing round. BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, High-Tech Gründerfonds and CK Venture Capital invested in StoryBox to foster the company’s further growth. StoryBox GmbH's software solution enables companies to create and organize smartphone-based videos for any application scenario.

Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz, under the joint lead of partners Dr. Marc Löbbe and Dr. Oliver Schröder is advising ISARIA Wohnbau AG on the sale of major real estate projects and the associated platform for project development to companies of the Deutsche Wohnen Group.

In exchange for a payment from the D&O insurers, Bilfinger Berger agrees to settle all liability claims asserted against its long-standing Chairman of the Executive Board, Herbert Bodner, and other Executive Board members.  In 2018, the Supervisory Board of Bilfinger SE had asserted claims for damages against Bodner and eleven other members of the Executive Board for alleged breaches of duty in... >>>

Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz advised Heimkapital GmbH on its seed financing round. The Munich-based start-up company collected a high six-figure amount in the financing round, in which a German venture capital investor participated among others. Heimkapital GmbH was founded in July 2019. Heimkapital is a PropTech company that enables real estate owners aged 60+ to sell parts of their property in... >>>

AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA (Aurelius) acquired the majority of ZIM Flugsitz GmbH from the founding family Zimmermann. ZIM Flugsitz GmbH is based in Markdorf near the Bodensee and is a renowned provider of quality flight seats for commercial passenger planes. With approx. 210 employees in the headquarter in Markdorf as well as a production site in Schwerin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)... >>>

Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz is expanding its transaction practice with the renowned M&A expert Dr. Oliver Schröder (49), who is moving from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton as partner to SZA’s Frankfurt office on January 1, 2020. Dr. Oliver Schröder has played a leading role in numerous significant M&A transactions in recent years and is regarded as one of the leading M&A lawyers in Germany. Dr.... >>>

SZA defends Sisvel from lawsuit of Institut für Rundfunktechnik GmbH (IRT) before Mannheim Regional Court A team of Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz led by Prof. Dr. Jochem Reichert, Dr. Thomas Nägele and Dr. Marc Löbbe successfully defended the Italian patent licensing company Società Italiana per le Sviluppo dell' Elettronica, S.I.SV.EL., S.p.A. (Sisvel) before the Regional Court of Mannheim against... >>>

SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz advises Südzucker AG in connection with a EUR 600 million syndicated loan SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz advises Südzucker AG in connection with a EUR 600 million syndicated revolving credit facility agreement with 12 banks under the lead of Deutsche Bank AG as coordinator. Landesbank Baden-Württemberg acted as agent. The borrower side also included Südzucker’s... >>>

SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz advises euromicron AG on Funkwerk's entry as strategic anchor investor by means of cash capital increase euromicron AG, a medium-sized technology group and specialist for the cross-linking of business and production processes, has won Funkwerk AG, Kölleda, as a strategic anchor investor. Funkwerk AG is a leading provider of innovative communication, information and... >>>

SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz advises TRIPLAN Aktiengesellschaft, Bad Soden am Taunus, in a merger squeeze-out with TTP AG, Frankfurt am Main.

Effective 1st May 2019, the long-time General Counsel of Airbus SE, Dr. Peter M. Kleinschmidt (LL.M. Berkeley), has joined the newly opened Munich office of SZA Schilling Zutt & Anschütz as Of-Counsel. Dr. Kleinschmidt was Secretary General of the Commercial Aircraft Division from 2000 to 2005 and General Counsel of the entire Airbus Group from 2007 to 2015. Until the end of 2018, Dr. Kleinschmidt... >>>

Volkswagen and PSE's motion to recuse was finally successful. Volkswagen, represented by SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz, had already expressed doubts in the beginning of 2018 concerning the impartiality of the judge who was involved in the Stuttgart diesel investor claims.

SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz advises TTP AG, Frankfurt am Main, on the acquisition of the four former Pharmaplan companies located in Switzerland, Germany, France and Belgium from the Danish-based NNE A/S.

Through Neel Metal Limited, its biggest subsidiary, the Indian JBM Group became shareholder of the automotive supplier Linde + Wiemann. Financing was provided by ICICI Bank, one of India's biggest banks.