Holtzbrinck gains majority stake in Myphotobook
29.07.2007
Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, Stuttgart/Germany,
gains via Holtzbrinck Networks majority stake in Myphotobook, Berlin/Germany.
The European Founders Fond of the Samwer
brothers, who became known as the founders of Jamba!, is also investor of the photo
service provider. A part of the shares remains in posession of the founders of
Myphotobook, thereunder Jan Christoph Gras as well as other shareholder.
Myphotobook offers a software to create
own, hard- or softcover photobooks in by now 15 countries. The Cartell Office
has yet to approve the acquisition (Simone Bocksrocker).
m law group, founded in 2007 as a spin-off
from WilmerHale (JUVE 02/07), regularly advises Holtzbrinck.
Noerr also adviced Myphotobook repeatedly: Pleister
and his team was already involved in the first financing round.
Counsel to Holtzbrinck:
m law group: Dr. Hubert Besner (M&A), Dr. Florian von Baum (IT/IP), Diana Massa (M&A), Stephan Appt (IT/IP)
Inhouse (Stuttgart): Dr. Anka Reich
Counsel to excistion shareholder of Myphotobook:
Nörr Stiefenhofer Lutz (Berlin): Dr. Christian
Pleister, Dr. Thorsten Reinhard, Dr. Sascha Leske, Dr. Tim Lanzius; Kolja
Dörrscheidt (all Corporate), Jessica Loew (IP)
Author:
Dr. Hubert Besner
Practice Areas:
Mergers & Acquisitions, Business & Technology Transactions
Industry:
Information and Communication Technology
