Software as a Service (SaaS) - Taylor Wessing advises COYO on majority sale to Marlin Equity Partners

The US private equity firm Marlin Equity Partners has signed agreements with the shareholders of the Hamburg-based SaaS start-up COYO GmbH, which offers a platform for internal corporate communications that is already used by more than one million people worldwide, to acquire a majority stake in COYO. The closing of the transaction still requires official approvals.

A team from the international law firm Taylor Wessing, led by Hamburg-based partner Jens Wolf, advised COYO and its shareholders on all legal issues relating to the majority sale.

Legal advisers COYO GmbH

Taylor Wessing Germany: Lead partner Dr. Jens Wolf (Partner, M&A/Venture Capital, Hamburg), Dr. Michael Brüggemann (Partner, Public Procurement, State Aid and Foreign Trade Law, Düsseldorf), Dr. Marco Hartmann-Rüppel (Partner, Cartel and Competition Law, Hamburg), Dr. Tobias Schelinski (Partner, IP/IT, Hamburg), Dr. Stefan Horn, LL.B. (Salary Partner, Antitrust and Competition Law, Hamburg), Jonas Warnken (Salary Partner, Labour Law, Hamburg), Anneliese Hartlaub, LL.M. (Associate, IP/IT, Hamburg), Philipp Hoegl (Associate, M&A/Venture Capital, Hamburg), Dr. iur. (PPKE) László Molnár, LL.M, (Associate, M&A/Venture Capital, Hamburg), Dr. Melanie Moser (Associate, Public Procurement, State Aid and Foreign Trade Law, Munich)