Press releases Laurens Klinkert, LL.M.


05 September 2023

GvW Graf von Westphalen advised Martens & Prahl Holding GmbH, majority shareholder of Marine Assekuranz GmbH Versicherungsmakler, on the company’s investment in Marine Alliance AS.

25 August 2023

GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised Elevion Group on the acquisition of Alexander Ochs Group.

11 April 2023

GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised US-American Barcodes, Inc. on the acquisition of the German Identbase Group.

19 January 2023

GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised the founders of OPTANO GmbH on the sale of their company to the US-American Kearney group.

08 November 2022

GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised the Paulaner Brewery Group on the acquisition of the OeTTINGER brewery facility in Gotha.

24 June 2022

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

30 May 2022

Klöpferholz will remain in the hands of the fifth generation of the family: Hermann and Florian Wendelstadt, great-great-grandchildren of company founder Johann Christian Klöpfer, acquired 100 percent of the shares in Klöpfer & Königer Management GmbH as well as the associated logistics real estate.

15 November 2021

The partners of GvW Graf von Westphalen have admitted Ms Melanie Eilers and Dr Dominic Köstner as equity partners. Both were elected at the partners’ meeting in Berlin. Christof Kleinmann and Dr Robert Theissen were confirmed in their roles as managing partners of the firm for a further term of two years, respectively. Duesseldorf partner…

03 November 2021

GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised Hybrid Software Group PLC on its acquisition of ColorLogic GmbH.

06 August 2021

GvW has advised all shareholders of CORE SE on the sale of their shares to the German subsidiary of the US-American EPAM Systems, Inc.

30 July 2021

GvW has advised Kern & Stelly Medientechnik GmbH, a German subsidiary of the UK Midwich Group, on the acquisition of the UC business from eLink Distribution AG.

02 March 2021

Invesco Real Estate (Invesco), the global real estate investment manager, has a new management company for 11 of its hotels in Germany: Westmont Hospitality Group will take the baton from insolvent Tidal Operations Germany (TOG) and manage and operate ten hotels of the Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express and Crowne Plaza brands in Germany…

31 July 2020

GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised the Dutch A.Hak group on the sale of Reinhard Rohrbau GmbH to Deutsche Infrastruktur- und Netzgesellschaft mbH (DING). Reinhard Rohrbau GmbH, based in Meppen, is a regionally leading pipeline construction specialist with a focus on all services related to the laying of energy and telecommunication…

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.

03 June 2020

GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised Global Graphics PLC on the sale of URW Type Foundry GmbH to the Monotype Group. 

10 February 2020

TÜV Saarland has acquired a stake in authorized.by: The company acquired a participation of 25.1 percent in the Munich startup with the support of attorneys from GvW Graf von Westphalen.

25 July 2019

GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised the UK based Redgate Software Group on its acquisition of Flyway, the biggest cross-platform database migrations tool.

25 April 2019

GvW Graf von Westphalen has advised EXHEAT Group Ltd on the acquisition of the German SEICO Group. The UK based EXHEAT Group Ltd is a world class provider of hazardous area heating and control solutions that has extensive global experience in electrical, mechanical and thermal design.

14 November 2018

The German startup company Penseo has successfully completed a seed financing round under the lead of Hanover Beteiligungsfonds, Portuguese Banco de Investimento Global as well as renowned business angels including Oliver Oster and Kilian Thalhammer.

22 May 2018

Wyndham Worldwide Corporation has sold its European vactation home business to Platinum Equity, LLC. The transaction with a sales volume of 1.3 billion US dollars has now been successfully closed. GvW Graf von Westphalen advised the American hotel group with regard to German law.

02 May 2018

Thai Acrylic Fibre Co. Ltd. (TAF), a subsidiary of the Indian Aditya Birla Group, has acquired PyroTex Industries GmbH. The M&A advisors of Proventis Partners and the law firm of GvW Graf von Westphalen have advised the founder of the textile company in this sale.

25 April 2018

The Berlin based startup company Locafox has completed a new financing round in a medium one-digit EUR million amount. The investors are 2 Welten Investment (a subsidiary of Deutsche Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, ddvg) as well as Bremer Tageszeitungen AG.

25 April 2018

The listed GN Store Nord A/S (CPH: GN), headquartered in Ballerup near Copenhagen, Denmark (“GN“) has acquired a shareholding in audEERING GmbH with registered seat in Gilching, county of Starnberg, Germany („audEERING“). The transaction value was not disclosed.