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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.

Dr. Peter Hemeling, for many years General Counsel of Allianz SE, will become Of-Counsel in the newly opened Munich office of SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz as of 1 April 2019. Dr. Peter Hemeling worked as Chief Syndicus at Allianz SA from 2004 to 2016. He is a renowned expert in the field of corporate and capital markets law, in M&A transactions as well as in the areas of corporate governance... >>>

HARIBO, along with other well-known confectionary manufacturers, saw itself confronted with three claims for damages by the drugstore chains Müller, Rossmann and Schlecker (insolvency trustee). The plaintiffs argued that they had acquired a range of overpriced products due to the confectionary cartel. HARIBO succeeded in the proceedings, pending since 2016, to reject the alleged causation of... >>>

SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz, one of the most reputable German commercial law firms, will open a new office in Munich on 1 April 2019. The new office in the Bavarian capital is the fourth office of SZA, in addition to Mannheim, Frankfurt am Main and Brussels.

Prof. Dr. Stephan Harbarth, partner of Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz, has been elected judge at the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) by Bundestag and Bundesrat. He will succeed Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Kirchhof as vice-president of the court. It is a long-standing tradition that the vice-president is elected President of the Federal Constitutional Court at the end of the term of... >>>

SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz advised two investor groups formed by Neo Capital Ltd, London and Dubai, on the purchase of an office building in Eschborn from a consortium consisting of Groß & Partner and OFB. The share deal involved the transfer of all shares in Siebte Rhein-Main Projektentwicklung GmbH to two acquiring companies for an undisclosed purchase price. The transaction was carried out... >>>

SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz advised the operator of Frankfurt Airport, Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide ("Fraport AG") on the sale of its stake in Hannover Airport to iCON Flughafen GmbH, a company of the British iCON Infrastructure Group. The purchase price was approximately EUR 109 million. Fraport AG held a 30% interest in Flughafen Hannover-Langenhagen GmbH, the operating... >>>

SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz advised Heidelberg Engineering GmbH on its investment within the Series C Financing Round of Implandata Ophthalmic Products GmbH (Implandata), a Hannover-based ophthalmic medical device startup company. Heidelberg Engineering GmbH participated in the first closing of the Series C Financing Round in the course of which Implandata raised an aggregated amount of a... >>>