GvW Graf von Westphalen advises Red Gate on acquisition of 3T
GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised Red Gate Software Ltd. on its acquisition of Berlin based 3T Software Labs GmbH. GvW Graf von Westphalen advised on all aspects of German law and worked together with the English law firm of Mills & Reeve LLP.
Red Gate with its headquarters in Cambridge (UK) develops software used by 650,000 IT professionals who work with SQL Server, Azure, .Net, and Oracle. More than 100,000 companies, including 91% of companies in the Fortune 100, use Red Gate products.
3T Software Labs GmbH, a company founded in Berlin in late 2013, develops software and tools for database developers and administrators with a special focus on MongoDB, the next-generation database that helps businesses transform their industries by harnessing the power of data.
Red Gate made an initial investment in 3T in 2015 after seeing in the Berlin-based startup the same kind of innovative thinking in the NoSQL space that has allowed Red Gate to become a leading provider of SQL Server tools (more). Red Gate sees the acquisition as a natural extension of its business in a changing market, and evidence of a convergence between the worlds of SQL and NoSQL.
Under the lead of Hamburg based partner Dr. Ritesh Rajani (Corporate/M&A), Red Gate was advised by a team consisting of partners Dr. Frank Tschesche (Tax; Frankfurt), Dr. Joachim Mulch (IP; Dusseldorf) and Dr. Malte Evers (Employment; Hamburg) as well as associates Jana Hollstein (Corporate; Hamburg) and Lars-Olaf Leskovar (Tax; Frankfurt).
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