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Dr. Henning Bloss has advised the mezzanine lender Ember Capital in connection with the sale of Holmer Maschinenbau to the French Exel Industries group. Holmer is one of the world's leading manufacturers of harvesting machines for sugar beets and has approx. 400 employees in six countries.

Dr. Henning Bloß hat den Mezzanine-Kreditgeber Ember Capital bei dem Verkauf des Maschinenherstellers Holmer Maschinenbau durch die französische Unternehmensgruppe Exel Industries beraten. Holmer ist einer der weltweit führenden Hersteller von Zuckerrübenerntemaschinen mit ca. 400 Mitarbeitern in sechs verschiedenen Ländern.

The US-publishers Best Lawyers have selected exclusively for Handelsblatt a list of German lawyers in various legal fields which are recommended by colleagues.

Dr. Katharina Scheja, Thomas Heymann and Dr. Lars Lensdorf have been selected as three of the best Corporate Lawyers in Germany in the area of Informationtechnology.

The renowned fashion company Tom Tailor located in Hamburg has purchased 100 % of the shares, with value of 220 million Euro, of one of the biggest women's apparel retail businesses in Germany, Bonita. Subsequent to the purchase, Tom Tailor will take over about 1,350 fashion stores with more than 6,100 employees in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Benelux.

In addition to a cash payment of 150 million Euros, the seller will receive about 6 million new Tom Tailor shares. One part of the cash payment will be funded by capital increase through stock issue of about 1.65 million new shares; the remainder will be financed through outside capital.

This deal is still under restriction and awaiting final approval by the Anti Trust Agency by the beginning of August.

During this transaction, Tom Tailor is being consulted by Thomas Heymann, Dr. Henning Bloß (Corporate/Finance), Titus Walek (Corporate), Walter Born (Employment Law), David Frisch, Nina Trakostanec (Corporate), Vera Kunze (Employment Law), Julia Züllich (IP) and Dr. Till Contzen (Real Estate Law).

Tom Tailor intents to use the proceeds generated through the capital increase of 220,000,000.00 EUR to partially finance the takeover of Bonita Group with the appreciation of value of round 1,65 new registered shares.

The new shares were placed at an issue price of 12.50 EUR per share. The price of the share rose from 12.50 EUR to a closing price of 13.37.

Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital LP invests in the software house DocuWare AG, headquartered in Germering near Munich.

DocuWare AG is one of the leading global software producers of document management solutions. The company, established in 1988, operates worldwide from Germering/Munich and New Windsor/New York and has subsidiaries in Great Britain, Spain and France.

Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital was advised by Titus Walek, Thomas Heymann, Walter Born, Moritz Hüsch, David Fritsch, Nina Trakostanec and Vera Kunze.

Our recent Employment Law Update "Relocation of a part of a business to neighboring countries" written by Walter Born can be found here.

Ms. Dr. Katharina Scheja has been announced as "Lawyer of the year 2012 Intellectual Property". For further information please visit www.bestlawyers.com.

The corporate finance magazine Acquisition International (April 2012 edition) published an article discussing why IT due diligence can be pivotal for a successful M&A transaction. Titus Walek and Dr. Moritz Hüsch contributed to that article. To read the article, please click here.

Atlantic Bridge invests in Munich-based software house metaio GmbH. Founded in 2003, metaio GmbH is a specialist for the development of software technology for augmented reality solutions. The company operates its worldwide business from Munich and, through its US sibsidiary metaio Inc, San Francisco, California.

Atlantic Bridge was advised by Titus Walek, Dr. Katharina Scheja, Walter Born, Julia Schneider, Nina Trakostanec and Vera Kunze.