With Dr. Sebastian Engels, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is, together with the lead advisors of SKYE Partners (Frankfurt) part of the advisor team for Motive Partners, set to make its first investment in Germany with the acquisition of Lucht Probst Associates (LPA Group).

Established two years ago by private equity investors and financial experts, Motive Partners is represented with branches in New York and London. The focus of investment clearly rests on technology companies active in the financial sector. The acquisition of LPA Group, based in Frankfurt, fits exactly into this target group: As of 1999, it has developed software solutions for banks and asset managers and counts around 200 employees.

SKYE PARTNERS has been active as a corporate and transaction law firm since February 2018 and has specialized in company law, venture capital, private equity and M&A. Here, the firm uses web-based technology in order to form and coordinate customised teams for complex transactions. In this way, SKYE PARTNERS has a steadily growing network of currently 500 legal advisors at 17 locations in key jurisdictions in Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East.

Further information in JUVE and Deal Advisors.

Entrepreneurs will meet from 16-24 November 2018 in Singapore and 7-8 March 2019 in Bremen at “MOIN – Perhaps the coolest start-up festival in the milky way”.

BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT will attend both events as official partner on site.

Dr Eckhard Ratjen will give a speech on 2 November 2018 at MOIN Singapore in 1Altitude. The title of his speech will be “Business disruptions for start-ups because of lack of proper strategy”. The journey to Singapore will be made by roughly 30 people – including the Senator for Economy, Work and Port of Bremen, Martin Günthner. Eckhard Ratjen will also make a speech on 20 November 2018 at the German Accelerator Southeast Asia (GASEA) event. The speech will be entitled ‘Increase the value of your start-up with Intellectual property rights’.

The MOIN Start-up Camp in March 2019 in Bremen is a two-day event for entrepreneurs, those interested in starting a company, investors and representatives of established companies. Workshops, speeches and network opportunities – for instance at one or another food truck – will be provided. Together with Dr Martin Erbacher and other BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT lawyers, Dr Eckhard Ratjen will be present at an info-stand – a Legal Clinic – at the event in Bremen.

Details on both events can be found here.

BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is pleased by the numerous individual mentions and very good ratings for the firm in the various categories of the current JUVE manual. Mentioned by name were:

Christian W. Appel

Dr. Rudolf Böckenholt, LL.M.

Dr. Markus Engelhard

Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar

Dr. Jan Krauß         

Dr. Martin Schaefer

Dr. Volker Schmitz-Fohrmann, MJur

Wilhelm Stahlberg

Dr. Martin Wirtz

‘Trade Mark and Design Law / Competition Law’ was mentioned with praise and it was stated that the traditionally strong brand management practice “has been expanded over recent years to include a good litigation practice”. The international focus and strong connections with the work of patent attorneys were mentioned as strengths.

For Contract and Copyright Law, the JUVE manual stressed that the “well-established Media Law Practice […] is rooted so deeply in the international film industry such as to have only the fewest of rivals”; also the firm is developing “consistently into a specialist in proceedings against the illegal dissemination of contents on the internet.”

In Patent Registrations, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT spearheads the list and has an “uncontested position among the leading law firms”. In Contentious Litigation, its active conduct with mixed teams of patent attorney and general lawyers is rated positively.

The JUVE Manual Corporate Law Firms is geared towards decision-makers in companies, corporate lawyers and attorneys. The ratings are based on research of the editors, ratings submitted through questionnaires for individual legal fields, interviews with rivals, clients as well as the editing staff’s own knowledge of the sector.