Taylor Wessing advises shareholders of aixigo AG on sale to Amundi Asset Management

Led by Düsseldorf-based partners Dr Ernst-Albrecht von Beauvais and Daniel Mursa, Taylor Wessing advised the main shareholder fronttrail Equity Partners and its fund vehicle, the five founding shareholders as well as the two board members invested in the company on the sale of all shares in aixigo AG to Amundi Asset Management. Signing and closing of the transaction took place on 7 November 2024. 

The buyer was advised by a Clifford Chance team led by Frankfurt-based partner Dr Moritz Petersen.

aixigo is an independent software provider that enables banks and financial service providers in particular to operate their advisory and wealth management services in a legally compliant and highly efficient manner. Based on the wealth management platform "BLOXX", a large part of the relevant wealth management use cases are covered in a highly automated and flexible manner.

Amundi Asset Management is a French asset manager based in Paris. With assets under management of over two trillion euros and more than 100 million customers, the company is the largest asset manager in Europe and one of the ten largest in the world. Amundi employs over 5,500 people in 35 countries.

Also led by Dr Ernst-Albrecht von Beauvais, Taylor Wessing had already advised the five founding shareholders of aixigo AG in 2018 on the entry of the main shareholder fronttrail Equity Partners.

Legal Counsel Shareholders aixigo AG

Taylor Wessing Germany: Dr. Ernst-Albrecht v. Beauvais, LL.M. (Co-Lead, Partner), Daniel Mursa, LL.M. (Co-Lead, Salary Partner), Katrin Anwey, LL.M. (Senior Associate) all Corporate / M&A, Düsseldorf; Dr. Sebastian Beyer, LL.M. (Salary Partner, Corporate Capital Markets, Düsseldorf), Rudi Hasenberg (Salary Partner, Tax, Frankfurt); Jan Feuerhake, LL.M. (Partner), Gabriel Danyeli (Associate), both Technology, Media & Telecoms, Hamburg; Dr. Anne Förster (Salary Partnerin, Employment, Pensions & Mobility, Düsseldorf); Manuel Nagel (Partner), Mareen Coenen, LL.B. (Associate) both Competition, EU & Trade, Düsseldorf.