Press releases Dr Joachim Mulch


22 July 2025

GvW Graf von Westphalen advised abaut GmbH on a successful financing round in the amount of €3.2 million.

10 July 2025

The technology group Rohde & Schwarz has acquired ZES ZIMMER Electronic Systems GmbH with effect from 1 July 2025. GvW Graf von Westphalen provided comprehensive legal advice to the seller in this corporate sale.

07 July 2025

GvW Graf von Westphalen advised Chinese truck manufacturer SuperPanther on the conclusion of an agreement with Austrian commercial vehicle manufacturer Steyr Automotive on the industrial production of battery-powered trucks.

04 April 2025

GvW Graf von Westphalen advised osapiens, the leading software platform for sustainable growth and ESG compliance, on the acquisition of BYRD Health.

21 November 2024

DFS Aviation Services GmbH (DAS), a subsidiary of DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH (DFS), has entered into a strategic partnership with Dubai Air Navigation Services (DANS). The cooperation envisages DAS providing DANS with air traffic control personnel in Dubai for a period of five years starting in January 2025. To this end, a local…

31 July 2024

GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised osapiens, the leading ESG platform and provider of compliance and sustainability reporting solutions, on a $120 million Series B financing round led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives.

17 April 2024

BWI Group and thyssenkrupp Steering agree on a long-term cooperation to jointly develop the state-of-the-art X-by-Wire chassis technology. GvW Graf von Westphalen advised BWI Group on antitrust and IP law issues in this transaction - under the lead of the Chinese law firm AllBright.

19 September 2023

GvW Graf von Westphalen advised Porvair plc, the specialist filtration, laboratory and environmental technology group, on its acquisition of 100% of the issued share capital of two businesses, Ratiolab GmbH and Ratiolab Kft. (together "Ratiolab").

28 July 2023

GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised the shareholders of STAGIL GmbH on the sale of the company to TIMETOACT GROUP, a portfolio company of funds advised by Equistone Partners Europe, as well as former STAGIL managing director Björn Frauen on the investment in TIMETOACT GROUP.

24 July 2023

An investor consortium consisting of Lingotto, Vsquared Ventures, Primepulse and HV Capital has invested in NEURA Robotics GmbH.

31 March 2023

OQmented has successfully closed a 20 million USD Series A financing round. In the course of this financing round, Sharp, one of the world’s leading electronic device and display manufacturers (investing through its group company Sharp Devices Europe GmbH), has joined the company as a new strategic investor.

01 March 2023

osapiens, a software company based in Mannheim, Germany, has acquired 80 per cent of the shares of ftrace GmbH. The purpose of the acquisition is to further increase transparency in global supply chains through osapiens' technological know-how and ftrace's process and industry expertise.

17 January 2023

GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised the French Legrand Group on its acquisition of A. & H. Meyer GmbH.

14 December 2022

Vsquared Ventures further expands its participation in CUSTOMCELLS: The manufacturer of lithium-ion battery cells has successfully closed a €60 million Series A financing round. Together with the two lead investors, climate-tech venture capital investor World Fund and Hamburg-based family office Abacon Capital, and the existing investors…

28 September 2022

GvW Graf von Westphalen has comprehensively advised Architrave, a Berlin-based proptech company, on the acquisition of the Canadian company Arex Technologies.

24 June 2022

With 129 recommendations in the 2022 Best Lawyers survey, GvW Graf von Westphalen achieved its best ranking ever.

08 April 2022

GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised FL Technics on the acquisition of Hanover-based wheels and brakes business.

16 February 2022

micropsi industries GmbH has successfully closed a $30 million financing round. GvW Graf von Westphalen advised the investors Metaplanet, VSquared Ventures and Ahren Innovation Capital on this transaction.

17 January 2022

GvW has advised the French Legrand Group on its acquisition of Geiger Maximizing Net-Solutions GmbH and Geiger Data Network Design GmbH (Geiger Group)

26 October 2021

GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised GLG Green Lifestyle GmbH, the previous sole shareholder of Utopia GmbH, on the minority investment of UmweltBank Aktiengesellschaft in the company.

13 August 2021

CUSTOMCELLS has successfully concluded a multi-million financing round. Investors include venture capital specialists Vsquared Ventures and 468 Capital, which were both advised by GvW Graf von Westphalen, and Porsche Ventures, the venture capital provider of Porsche AG.

10 August 2021

Munich-based start-up Noyes Technologies has secured initial seed funding of EUR 3.2 million. The financing round, in which 468 Capital and Abacon Capital also participated, was led by GvW client Vsquared Ventures.

15 July 2021

The shareholders of leading German drone developer and manufacturer AirRobot have sold 100 percent of their shares to Norwegian technology company Nordic Unmanned (Euronext Oslo «NUMND»). The transaction is subject to Investment Control Approval from German authorities and is expected to take place before year end.

06 May 2021

GvW Graf von Westphalen advised the shareholders of dna Gesellschaft für IT Services mbH on the sale of the company to DATAGROUP.

09 April 2021

GvW Graf von Westphalen advised Scienta Scientific AB of Uppsala, Sweden, on its acquisition of the German company ENVINET GmbH.

15 March 2021

OQmented GmbH, the technology leader for MEMS-based VR/AR, LiDAR and 3D-camera solutions, has successfully concluded a multi-million-euro seed financing round. The international consortium of investors is led by Vsquared Ventures and includes BioNTech supervisory board chairman Helmut Jeggle and a renowned Chinese tech entrepreneur. GvW…

07 December 2020

GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised Mirion Technologies on the acquisition of Dosimetrics GmbH.

12 October 2020

On 30 September 2020, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) approved the application of Truking Technology Co., Ltd for what is known as a Material Asset Restructuring (MAR). This is the first major restructuring project under PRC law approved by the SZSE since the introduction of the new registration-based IPO system for ChiNext. ChiNext is…

28 August 2020

On 15 July 2020, TeamViewer signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ubimax. GvW Graf von Westphalen advised the sellers of Ubimax on the sale of the company.

29 June 2020

The lawyers of GvW Graf von Westphalen are highly regarded in the eyes of the competitors: In this year's survey by Best Lawyers the firm received 91 awards, more recommendations than ever before.